"I have a hard time explaining this to normal people."
Professor Slowmobile
ProfessorSlowmobile
Yeah, his posturing really put me off. Referring to the people helping him as his "minions," coming right out and saying "I contacted Jalopnik in the hopes that I can get literary agent and an advance on a book deal, because fuck you and your Kickstarter money, this car is for ME." Fuck this guy and his bullshit,…
I doubt the Olympics play a major part, because Top Gear's summer series usually runs from June to late July and opening ceremonies for the 2012 Olympics aren't July 27. They could've prevented any potential overlap just by starting Top Gear a week or two earlier, or only doing five episodes instead of the usual six.…
Just the fact that he describes himself as "an MBA" tells me what an egomaniacal jackass he is. I get that he doesn't want to say what he does for a living, but an MBA is an advanced degree, not a profession or particular skill set. It's like he wishes he could call himself a doctor, so he invented a title for…
Yeah, but they're not REAL CAR GUYS because they didn't hire someone to design and fabricate new body panels for them.
You're right about everything you just said, except the park about "Koji" doing everything himself. He got someone else to design it, he sourced the underpinnings and mechanicals, and, from what he said, he'll probably end up farming out the body fabrication as well.
I think it's pretty obvious "Koji" isn't enjoying himself at all. He seems like a dour, humorless motherfucker. He reminds me of this Calvinist family that grew up in my neighborhood. One of their kids was in my grade, and I don't think I heard him laugh once in the 12 years I knew him.
"I'm a real car guy!" "No, I'M a real car guy!" I've never seen a list of criteria detailing what is and is not a bonafide "car guy," and getting into arguments about it is just so much (literal or metaphorical) tiny dick-driven bullshit. Anyone that's started a sentence with "You're not a real car guy because..."…
Koji must be Japanese for "Anally-inserted cranium." Aside from his massive ego and seriously warped perception of how the average person spends their time, he's giving himself some awfully big pats on the back for building a car where virtually every part, even the body design, has been sourced out "from scratch."
This guy is clearly having some issues with his perception of reality. Right off the bat, I noticed this: First he says, "There's really no car out there I really was in love with enough to try and make it whole or new again," and almost immediately follows that with "MR2s are the first car I fell in love with in high…
I'm just talking about the people who get into idiotic arguments about one car being faster than another car if you spend thousands of dollars modifying it to be faster, when the QOTD is about stock cars. There was a whole string about whether or not a 1st gen turbo Mitsubishi Eclipse is slower than a 3rd gen V6…
There is a resemblance, to be sure.
Top Gear is is arguably the most-watched show in the world (it airs in about 20 countries), but it's not necessarily the most-watched show in the UK. They've suffered some declining ratings in recent years, so I'm not surprised the Beeb wouldn't want to put it up against something like X Factor (or whatever shitty…
This is all just a clever ploy to cover up the REAL reason there won't be any new Top Gear for seven months. What really happened is that James May (seen at left) finally convinced the producers to let The Stig do a power lap in the new Fiat Panda. They expect him to cross the line sometime in late November.
I love it when there's a QOTD about factory-stock cars, but the comments are filled with people arguing that Car X "isn't slow once you swap out the cams and injectors for something more aggressive and reflash the ECU." or that Car Y is an amazing track car "if you give it better shocks, struts, wheels, tires, brakes…
Right, but that still doesn't make it a different design. The Limited is just a different, more luxurious trim level they'd been selling in Japan for years (the A-line). The reason they only offered it for one year in the US is because there's no real demand for a more expensive, grown-up STi over here. People who…
A lot of GXPs are currently sitting under tarps in storage units, their owners waiting for the day that the cars will double in value. Since GM announced they'd be shutting down Pontiac right around the same time the GXP went on sale, and the G8 had already been called a "future classic" by every auto journalist that…
'73 Chevelles are definitely the hardest Chevelles to restore. There's no real aftermarket support or NOS parts supply (everyone focuses on pre-'72 models), and a lot of the body and trim pieces are unique to that year. Considering it was the last year of the Chevelle SS, I'm surprised there isn't more love for them…
The real question isn't "Was the Maxx a station wagon?" (technically, it wasn't: Chevy advertised it as a "five-door extended sedan" and classified it as a mid-size hatchback), but "Was the Malibu SS a real SS?" I mean sure, it had the SS badges, but it was FWD and only had a 240 HP V6 under the hood. At the time,…