I envy Graham Rahal. Not because Courtney Force is adorable (though she is), but because he gets to have that crazy son of a bitch as a father-in-law.

No wonder I can’t seem to find enough oil to build turrets. Piper’s been hoarding it and slathering herself in it! The truth comes out eventually indeed!

That’s not the kind of Momo we recognize around here!

Sadly, due to the ignition switch debacle, their sacrifice was real.

I really like the look of this car, and the hatch body style looks way better to my eye than the sedan. But those wheels! They look like they were $79.99 apiece at Pep Boys.

Getting the jump on a possible Round 2 here...

Doug, you’re clearly a bright, educated, successful professional. And many of the cars you purchase to write about bespeak a certain…privilege. Astons. Ferraris. Mercedes-Benzes. Skyline GT-Rs. Even the Hummer, while older and modestly-priced, was when new not a car for the everyman. Friggin’ Schwarzenegger had one!

Your first mock-up only has one tire pressure reading at the front. Seems like an awful lot of tech to retrofit to one of these.

This won’t be top-ten, but it bugs me. In the opening scene of American Gangster, Denzel Washington’s character walks into a department store. Text at the bottom of the screen identifies the date as being sometime in 1968. And what drives by out in the street? A friggin’ 1970 Challenger, which is (a) pretty damned…

I know these ads are bollocks because I get them, and I have a Mitsubishi.

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head by characterizing it as schtick. It’s a gimmick, and it’s funny once, maybe twice.

I do this as well, and my girlfriend is appalled by it, as she thinks it looks like I’m some sort of ruffian scanning cars looking for things to steal.

Cleary, callipygian. You don’t talk about Mrs. Brian Scott’s booty that way!

Perhaps your AutoTrader ad for the Hummer would get more eyeballs if you added a pic of it blasting through the traps in the 21’s?

Hmm...a quick Google search for ‘rx350 mad jdm tite yo’ confirms your supsicions re: the enthusiasm of the Lexus community for such modifications.

So, to put this in reverse-Tavarish speak, Why buy this unreliable 16-year old Toyota when you could have a brand new 911 instead?

Sadly, this is the only ribbon my penis has ever been awarded.

Get a PlaneFax if you’re going used. I found a “too good to be true” Flanker a while back, but it turns out it’d been rear-ended. The entire empennage was friggin’ made of Bondo.

That’s the intro video from the game itself. Always gets me fired up for some Trial Mountain.

I completely forgot that there was a car in the video for “My Favorite Game.” The first thing car-related that I think of when I hear that track is this: