I love that wide chrome mouth. The '57 Olds was as cool as the '58 was hideous. This was the case, actually, for many brands.

Right. They choose the beginning of a long uphill section to pass the truck going 45 because their truck can pull 48. I'm thinking particularly of one stretch of I-40 that I have to drive frequently that never fails to produce one of these rolling traffic clogs.

This. Some of us can get fired for being an asshole at work.

"There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible." - P.J. O'Rourke

It's the renamed Boeing version of a McDonnell-Douglas MD-80 derivative that was built in the late 90s and early 2000s.

I remember the worm logo fondly from when I was a child. I thought it looked "futuristic." Now it looks to me like something from the 80s that was meant to look futuristic. The meatball logo is much more timeless, and I'm glad now that they went back. The worm logo looked appropriate in the 80s, but it would look…

No love for the 707 or 717?

A lot of these cars are in the twilight of their useful life (91 Camry? Really?), and the people who owned them can ill afford to replace them. Right now, someone is paying to have their '91 Camry or '95 Accord put back together after a theft recovery, and they're unknowingly getting stolen parts to do it.

"Nothing you can hold over my head..."

Not enough fun, too risky due to mileage. Go for the Miata at the price instead.

That's the way that I see it, but drag racers do use the numbers that way. 8.975 is 8 seconds to them.

For the record, let me clarify that I know these accidents do happen, only that they're rare. It says a lot about how safe everything is that they've gotten to the point of looking into this problem. There would seem to be easier things that would help more people survive, but OK...

I'm of two minds here. You'd normally expect $308,000 to buy perfection that this car will never again have. Replace any of the feeble body panels and it's no longer original (and wouldn't match). At the same time, you couldn't replace it or replicate it for anything close to $308,000. Even getting a new set of…

Crack pipe.

There are frequent collisions there between cars that are stopped and trucks going 100 kph? Honestly, that doesn't happen here much at all, and the US driving tests are considered a joke in other countries. If those crashes are happening with any regularity, there needs to be some serious driver training, not…

This is a pretty alarmist crash test. This is one of those things meant to make you crap your pants a little, and is just as meaningful a crash test as the train vs. Espace "test" on Top Gear. How clueless would the truck driver have to be to still be going 43 mph when crashing into stationary traffic? This is a…

Mk1 XJ-S.

Our family had a 1980 V6 Cutlass Supreme. It wasn't fast, but it was a dependable car. By the time it was totalled in 1994, it was burning a little oil, and had been painted several times because non-lead silver paint didn't last back then. It had EGR problems sometimes that would make it knock, but it started and…

There's one at the Lane museum in Nashville.

The confirmed letters from the Zodiac killer often had horrible spelling. If this is a fake (We'll see), he certainly did that to copy the pattern of the prior letters, not add mistakes.