Not that I disagree with you - but this IS a car blog site. The discussion is biased towards the car industry. Most of the readers/commenters here are car interested first - the bailout is mentioned in how it relates to that.

Well, you can't be wrong if you don't try... hopefully that isn't your teaching strategy. You are a teacher, I take it.

It's easy to be confident when you are correct. Care to point out any actual flaws in my post?

Really? You are saying that teaching 11 year olds is as difficult as the other jobs I describe? Rescuing someone from a fire? Or failing to be able to rescue someone from a fire? That equates to teaching? If hard is hard, why do jobs pay different amounts? If you can't really dispute my point, don't interject your…

It's funny. I was getting ready to blast the teachers - but not for the reason you contend. I have two friends that are teachers and they have finally learned not to WHINE about their break ending to the rest of us that work all year long. You think babysitting some 10 and 11 year olds is the hardest job in the world…

"FFS Americans, get it into your skulls that you don't need 3 tons of F-350 to get an 8x4 sheet of plywood home from the hardware store. The Acty will do that just fine."

I'm the same - project cars are a hell of a lot of fun (although I would buy very few of them... my wrenching isn't up to that kind of challenge).

No doubt - and hilariously, he knows it! The ad immediately states you won't be able to get a loan for that amount for the car. You'll need cash to make up for my insane belief my car is worth more than all others like this.

It's the guy that owns it that said it tops out at 60 mph. I'm not sure it's any type of American bias for the owner, who I believe has driven it, to describe the vehicle. Perhaps this one has issues limiting it's speed or you've driven ones with different drive trains.

I had thought about the frame/body designation but I wanted to be able to differentiate within a model line. Yes, there are Suburbans with 4WD and a low speed case - but I bet the take rate is crazy low for that option - and I didn't want a vehicle that did not meet the ORV requirement.

As soon as this starting making the rounds on "the media" I looked into the claims and saw that the gas-guzzling SUVs being purchased were mostly just the high riding cars manufacturers call SUVs. This is one of the big things that drive me nuts about the name game Americans and retail producers play. It's not a…

Engine swap, tons of body work, suspension upgrades... asking 40K... and the best they can do is five crappy photos and a run-on sentence description? Granted, I don't expect anything else from someone who thinks putting "Fuck You" anywhere visible on their car - but even if this was done up to quality for 40K, it…

Bwaaa-dub dub dub screeeee numm numm dub bundwaaaaaa tik tik DUB BWAAA!!!

Are you implying they made up the French language as an excuse for a typo? You are aware most of Red Bull racing is in Europe, right? Or is this a silly troll attempt gone wrong?

Oh no, the Shelby Ford's in my area all have those and they are dead serious. People are willing to pay over the sticker and the dealership is willing to let them. It bugs me some because new GT350 = sweaty fever dreams, but I am a free market man so I live with it.

Oh, I see the front radiator now - and I agree. That is not cooling 400 horses for very long. I'm going to pretty that he rigged up a system to dump the Igloo onto the gas "tank" when it invariably catches fire. Jerry-rigged fire suppression system. Part of me is still impressed they can make this many terrible…

Oh man, I can't remember the last time I actually laughed at a NPOCP thread, but this is awesome. How much you want to bet there are more bungies holding that in place?

The one held down by a bungie cord? Haha. I used to seeing them with some sort of cooling veins to shake off heat. I'd be curious to see how they have that ventilated. I saw the little vent they made on the passenger side of the car, but I think the suspension is blocking the view of it on the interior. And the…

I'll give credit to the job of getting to actually move under it's own power, but that is some crack pipe. You build something like this because you have too much money and need some way to get rid of it.

Yeah, they do that. Chimps are creepy scary - but then they are our closest cousins. And who is the darkest, fucked up animal?