“Not to mention the height of this baby; at about 100” toes to top you’re going to take the whole forest down with you if you try wheeling in New England or the Northwest.”

Brilliant!

$37K or so for a truck is tough, but I keep my trucks a long time (the current one is 11 years old), so this is definitely a contender. As I already do maintenance on diesels (the now Gawker-hated VWs, feh) having another one in the yard is no biggie.

I thought it was a dirty slide; whether or not MLB took action doesn’t really matter to me. That said, they probably did Utley a favor as I wouldn’t be surprised if the Mets would have done a little headhunting in the next game.

or Don Zimmer.

My ex and her fam were from Worcester, I got a degree at WPI, and yep the locals say something that sounds like “Wista”. My father used to say “War Chester” (I come from metro NY originally).

NP - one in that kind of shape is getting pretty rare (here anyway).

Now that’s something a Russian oligarch could love.

Dammit - I was so excited to see this - it would look great next to my 75% Jalopnik-approved VW (wagon, manual, diesel, but not brown)... then I see it’s not coming here. Son, I am disappoint.

In other news, a 1993 Geo Metro was still on the road.

No, but gin is ok.

Even though it’s a nice example, the price is still a bit too high. There was a 633 for sale near me recently that was in as nice shape (better as it didn’t have a green carpet!), with all receipts, full tool kit, etc. and was selling for around $7K. The only downside was it was an automatic, but even adding in a…

The NY transporter plates on the car are funny - why? When I lived on Long Island many, many years ago we used transporter plates to repossess cars. (Yep I was a repo man for a short time...) I never got to repo anything as remotely nice as a McLaren though.

Great idea! I do have a friend who is an illustrator, though of children’s books. Ooh, that might even be better - a comic drawn like a children’s book of the Customer Punisher and minions doing battle with the forces of eeeeevil...

I think in my next career, I will become the Customer Punisher. Servers can call a special 800 number and I or one of my minions will come out to dispatch this person to the nether lands.

Yes! I am sure I could have cheerfully done away with most of these customers. (This is probably why I should never work in any retail job.)

Bummer. I’m probably a little older than some of the folks here but I would love one of those, although I’m considered odd because I’ve owned two Citroëns (a DS and a SM). Maybe the next time we vacation in France I can get one as a rental car.

I’ve owned a DS and an SM, and it’s a tough call. I’d say the SM just for the engine sound (and the wacky complexity of it all under the hood). Citroën needs to build then bring the Cactus to the US now; I’d love to own one.

The Viewt Nadeshiko looks like a Jaguar Mk II saloon and a Toyota Echo hatchback had a baby. The front vs rear styling cues make absolutely no sense.

There are so many great/funny episodes, but the specials stand out in my mind. The Vietnam and the Botswana specials are first and second place for me. Not only were they funny (Clarkson riding a scooter!), but like so many of their shows, the production values were so high. The videography of the Vietnam special is…