Lol, they did not but point well taken. Maybe there was a little hyperbole in my original statement but yes; ask the native Americans what the western governments think about property rights. 

Yes, not trusting the government is always insane. Never question anything.

There is a specific catch to this situation that makes me interpret it differently than you; he didn’t acquire these cars when his land was in the city but rather before. Forced annexation is a no less serious an assault on personal rights than asset forfeiture; they have taken his land he bought under one set of…

That’s not how laws works; you can’t ticket everyone in a fast car because they may speed. Unless he was draining the car’s fluids directly onto the ground there is no reason to assume they where leaking vast quantities of fluids. 

The dude lived out in the country, the township moved in around the dude then forced him to change his lifestyle to fit their wants. That defies the definition of ownership.

Your strawman argument won’t stand here; the township’s laws that where applied weren’t environmental in nature they where centered around “beautification”. The township annexed this mans land then applied their new laws to his land and told him to obey or face punishment.

Not sure if you’ve ever been in a car with that kind of failure happening but it is L O U D and the owner was likely in some state of shock; people in shock can react badly to what is going on around them. The safety crew was also woefully unprepared; their actual fire pump motor died and wouldn’t pump which I’m just…

Oh good, now we get to read self aggrandizing atheist-apologist bullshit; “Stalin said he was an atheist but because his mom was a Christian he wasn’t a true atheist.” Or “Pol-Pot never actually said he was Buddhist but sometimes he referenced Buddhist teachings so that is enough to say he wasn’t an atheist.” Horse-shi…

Just remember Americans, just because you “own” your land doesn’t mean its yours. The government controls it all, nothing is yours and you only exist by their grace.

Oh no; here comes hyper rational-cerebral atheist, all us dumbass religious people should go back to our caves!

Actually you referenced very specific locations; you could have said the Russian GP or the US GP but you referenced Sochi and CoTA specifically. Being asinine is fine but don’t back peddle; you’re good at it stick with it.

Which oddly enough means he’d probably fit right in with the gentrification army at work in Austin right now! 

Wow; so Austin Texas is a religious backwater location and you’d like anti-Christian groups to receive funding and support from F1 when they’re here? I can just see you now in your Che/ hammer and sickle shirt on your way to an antifa wardrobe meeting to coordinate your face coverings for next weeks protest.

That was the perfect and only appropriate response there but it still had me rolling around laughing. “Jalopnik, our umbrella is big...and odd.”

Ohh, sick burn and so edgy, you go girl.

This is what happens when white middle management doesn’t have to kill to eat or worry about cutting up logs for the winter. Those goobers killed some pretty good sheetmetal to make some of those Art Cars...

Lean cruise will absolutely double fuel mileage withing defined points. Also, the emissions of the automobile aren’t the only issue at hand; every drop of fuel has an environmental cost.

Reducing emissions doesn’t just relate to what’s coming out of the cars tailpipe. Every drop of fuel has an environmental cost and without that cost accounted for we don’t have a clear picture of what where actually achieving.

I’d like to see a Jalopnik article about the DOWNSIDES of modern emissions systems and the reasons some very intelligent and serious people work around them. On modern Diesel engines fuel mileage typically goes up 10-15% with just deletes and with proper tuning improvements can be even more significant. Modern gas…

Yea; I always figured “those people must have really thought this through to come to these conclusions simultaneously”...then I figured out that was the exact opposite of what they’d done.