So, instead of the story being, "asshat performs botched burnout and gets C&C cancelled", it SHOULD be, "incredibly huge asshat who thinks he's had enough training to be able to recover from asshattery and has driven other cars that others tend to be asshats in and knew enough to know why his asshattery was a bad idea…

The performance comparison is precisely the lens I'm talking about. That's not the point of the video. Continuing the art analogy, performance is the MEDIUM through which JO's "art" is expressed (or one of them if you're also familiar with his garage), but not the aesthetic point itself. This guy took a baddass old…

"(refer to the dictionary definition before thinking oil paintings and hyperbole)"

I think this is being looked at through the wrong lens... He's not doing the race-sticker bedecked Honda bragging about beating Mustangs (that didn't know they were racing) between stop lights and posting cellphone vids on YouTube thing. It's not a masculinity contest. This guy has been working on this project for a…

Nevermind that it's a diesel for a second and gas won't be a problem. ;-)

I've said for some time that if GM could build an entire car as well as they can build an engine, they would rule the world.

Given the car in question and the description, I'll bet dollars to donuts he was doing a burnout. Brighton is a pretty rural place outside the Denver/Boulder area, and it's not hard to imagine he stopped on one of the many many empty straight two lanes with a 50-60mph speed limit and did a burnout. He probably didn't…

My MiL got me a car cover for my daily driven garaged classic (see avatar) so that my wife could park her Corolla (that we were about to sell) in its spot in the garage.

I'm going to have to disagree with you here on the basis that your premise is dependent wholly on a luxury car buyer's perspective.

It may not be as super stellar a deal as you'd think. Your brain says, "Military grade. Diesel engine. Low mileage. Regular and detailed maintenance. Beefy as hell. What could possibly go wrong????" Take into account that these have been sitting in storage for 20 some-odd years, and think about what that means in…

This reminds me of the finance industry. I used to manage an investment fund, and I remember some of the ridiculous hoops we were expected to jump through to get advisors to sell our product to their clients. We were a fairly new sponsor and as a result essentially dropped our fees to the floor (and actually never…

Good call on the center of the word. Must have spaced.

It has a single turbo, and there are many similarities in the architecture with the bigger engine so they can also be built on the same assembly line as the fours, but this engine – expected to produce between 105-180 hp and 162-197 ft lb – comes with less vibration, improved friction and a lifetime timing belt that…

Do that from the center of the O (presumedly the approximate center of the truck) to the projected side (since it's obscured by mud at that latitude), and I think you're onto something!

I don't think font size should be considered a viable constant in this scenario. They could do like Ford did and make the blue oval FUCKING HUGE in one generation versus another and vice versa, or (more likely) simply scale it to match the rest of the vehicle's proportions.

This is not encouraging. Looking at some of the details that are fairly uniform in size (wheels, lug nuts, satellite antenna, door handles, etc.), one can very unscientifically extrapolate the approximate size of this. While it doesn't appear to be as large as a Tundra, it looks to be at least as big as the F150 was a…

Using the likely size of an element in the photo of a size that can be reasonably assumed (i.e. the trailer light connection cover), who is clever enough to figure out approximately how much bigger this is than the outgoing model?

[rant]This reminds me of the current (hopefully fading, I haven't looked in a while) trend in high end mechanical watches. Once upon a time, the latest and greatest most amazing technology was how small the movements could get while retaining accuracy. Now they're (the watches) needlessly and awkwardly large. The…

Does it fly? It might be worth the price tag if it could fly...

Only problem I can predict is that the spies driving them will probably lose theirs in a parking lot.