It's why you haunt Jeeps to this day. The inexplicable fires are a warning to others.

Well, y'see, when you drive up to the recruitment officer, you used to go through a bettery of standard tests. Checks if you've had your vaccinations, regular transmission fluid changes, measure your roofline, that sort of thing. About that time, the recruiting truck lifts you up, they pulls yer wheels off,and they…

Some people call drum brakes a handicap, but when the draft came, my drum brakes kept me out of the army.

Disc brakes are more like a sandwich than drum brakes. Ergo, girls are comparatively better at doing disc brake jobs than drums.

I imagine the idealized metaphor is one of the ships from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

To be honest, I was waiting for this article to come here.

Well, the Bugs Ritual is actually just posting the Bugs gif. We leave the actual sawing off to fantasy because that would at the very least require leaving the computer.

While I'm thinking about it, I deem myself the necessary first to perform the sacred Bugs Ritual.

Yep. However, was too horrible not to share, and almost certainly (thought nigh-impossibly) of inferior grade, in that sense of "knockoff".

Ian Faith: VAG gave me a drawing that said Q5 hybrid. Now, whether or not they know the difference between diesel and hyrbid is not my problem. I do what I'm told.

Even then, the GAZ military truck engine design stayed heavily Ford influenced for a long time.

I prefer the SeaShadow for looks, myself, but it's been retired.

Looks like the Sealion.

Ian Faith: Certainly, in the topsy-turvy world of heavy driving, having a good solid stick in your hand is often useful.

Not that big a fan of Family Guy, but obligatory.

Supercars tend to produce disastrous events in an almost organic way.

Which is why I went with "and all its children". The succeeding GAZ models were heavily influenced byt the A and the B.

I know it's marginal, it's just too terrible an idea not to share. A Russian Sebring.

If there were carjackers, I'm sure he's quite testy that something close to him was threatened. When the risks of owning a high-performance car become too much of a squeeze, sometimes it's best to take your ball and go home.

[When asked what happened to their first car]