a polished turd if ever there was

...or he could find a less-perfect platform for the project somewhere in the nearer-by midwest...but where’s the story to tell in that...

I don’t know what I did to upset him, but I once had a road-rager yell such things at me...”you big f***ing n****r”....which would have been a lot more offensive if I wasn’t a little white guy. I was more confused than offended.

I drove a Suzuki Samurai from Cape Cod to Kitty Hawk. That was a truck ride.

Walker it was had it this way modified. 

I’ve done basemapping myself and tried in vain to have clerks input data that’s geocodable, but always tell people that maps are like laws and sausage....if you appreciate either, you don’t want to watch them being made

duh....everyone knows that tuesday cars had weak throttle demodulator springs and friday cars-especially those built in june- were famous for premature wear of the nern dampeners

Stay? Beautiful, engaging, even exotic at times, but I don’t know that they ever have been relevant.

...and vent windows that let me flick my ashes and embers into the next lane or onto a shoulder filled with burger-wrap kindling instead of my back seat...

No Altima hate, but no love either....just a vague memory of an appliance.

....while American companies focus on adding lift kits and way more power to their pickups than would ever be needed -both ICE and EV- Toyota builds a truck that’s actually useful...this seems strangely familiar...

I snagged a set of these at a local scrapyard for $10, with a vision of them filling my Corvair’s concave cowl. That was 1983....they’re still sitting in my garage...

not to mention that it’s ‘reliability’ and ‘practicality’ will provide endless material for future articles and endless write-offs of the overpriced parts needed to keep it rolling...a gift that keeps on giving...

similar numbers from a friend at a Mini dealership near NYC

#2 served me well until I was wiped out by a guy named Gary Charles...just couldn’t tell  he was a Hoosier....

...and what’s Mach 9 in furlongs per fortnight?

It’s unfortunate that this thread has devolved into a political attack on China. I don’t mean to suggest that China doesn’t deserve much of the hate, but jeez...this is about the hardware, not the market manipulation. Can’t we all just treat the question as hypothetical daydreaming...”which Chinese vehicles would you…

the 250 GT Lusso is a beautiful car. the 275 GTB is not

at first glance I thought that wing was a bicycle seat, so why not mount one there with handlebar controls on a flying bridge

...just imagine the fecal emissions of a hundred million horses they wouldn’t replace...