Not even joking, if these were available here in the States for that $9,000-ish price tag, it’d make it the first thing I’d seriously consider replacing my ‘98 Chevy S10 daily with.

Changing an oil filter...after the guy who put it on tightened it with an oil filter wrench instead of by hand.

Back when you could make a cheap little shitbox, advertise it as a cheap little shitbox, and sell it as a cheap little shitbox to people who knew they were buying a cheap little shitbox for cheap little shitbox money.

The gas gauge on my truck has been nonfunctional for several years now (stupid GM sending units)...so do any of my stories qualify or...?

Additional “dishonorable mention” lesson: if you’re going to steal something from someone, make sure it doesn’t have their name on it written in big, bold letters.

Well they drove away so...yeah I s’pose...

Officially green-lighted in response to the fuel crisis, which ended before its design was finalized, made the goal of the car shift quite a bit.

Looked better than it was. Lots of pretty visuals and a couple of neat sci-fi concepts (an interdimensional marketplace...cool), but the story was dull, the characters were flat, and overall it just felt like they threw a bunch of spacey-looking crap on the screen & called it a day.

As someone who’s current gaming resume is almost strictly devoted to simracing, I love games like ETS2 and ATS for those times when I really want to get my driving fix, but in a non-competitive scenario. There’s days where I just feel the urge to drive something, but I know if I were to spend it in a racecar, I’d be…

WI too, and CA as well. Was just coming here to suggest “front plates”, even if it isn’t necessarily localized to a specific area. It just sucks.

Well a GoldWing’s more of an RV that’s had all but 2 seats removed, but I think I see where you’re going with this...

You’re right; the Fanboost isn’t trivial, but from the races I’ve seen it’s not massively overpowering either. F1 tries to do something similar with DRS and KERS, but IMHO it’s too much. DRS/KERS attacks almost always end in a dominating, wide-margins pass, which looks good at first but quickly gets old when the…

I know this truck was built for SEMA at least a couple of years ago. And fun fact: the bedsides & front clip are hand-formed sheetmetal & not fiberglass

You got in a racecar with Robby F’n Gordon, looked him in the eye and said “terrify me.”

Well since I live in Wisconsin, no matter what it is I’m sure it’ll come with “minor” rust.

...and that was Paul’s PPIHC car. Few years back the throttle hung wide open about 2 turns in and the whole thing went literally flying off the road. Sawed a couple of trees cleanly in half and stripped the car down to the bare chassis in less time than it took you to read this sentence.

Any car competing at a short track Open Competition time trial night.

Yes it’s historically known mostly as a case-study in not letting marketing write checks that engineering can’t cash...but that aside it’s still a pretty wicked ride & to me anyway, my favorite part is you could park one in a showroom today next to the latest anything from Ferrari or Porsche or Mercedes or what have…

Welp, that’s another dead car-centric TV show. Fuck.

FWIW, I was HEAVY into the Gran Turismo franchise “back in the day” & can recall doing a lot of racing in GT2 with a C4-generation Corvette ZR-1 that, of course, had all the bells & whistles. On a whim I swapped out the dialed-to-a-T Racing suspension kit with the much simpler Sports option & while the car lost some…