Reliant Scimitar

You’re right. I should have been more clear. I am misremembering the book Grand Delusions. He and his associate, Roy Nesseth, were in a lot of legal trouble along the way, but no evidence he was a drug user.

I saw one of these at a car show yesterday. I love looking at them. They have a great “under-dog/coked-up con-artist” backstory, but am not sure I’d ever take the plunge and commit to keeping one in running order.

Here is a pic of my favorite AMC. Too bad they only had 5 bucks and a can of beans at the time and couldn’t build it.

This trike doesn’t make sense in the face of dropping battery prices. People who might want an Elio for “feeling green” will probably just jump to electric at this point. A person wanting one for the really low purchase price might just get something like a used Focus. The Elio seems to be in a bad middle ground.

Just to be weird I’d suggest a minor tweak and go for the Capri RS 5.0 version.

Pedestrian hit by car starting to realize David Copperfield isn’t going to call 911.

There was a time when I could spot the pink and purple glow of that sign from 5 miles away. Like a lighthouse calling me to greater fatness.

Awesome. A VW that can leave you even more stranded. At least my Scirocco, Rabbit and Golf had the common decency to make me walk on regular roads.

Maybe he’s thinking of Old Glory Insurance.

So how do you categorize cars that have the engine sitting right on top of the front axles? Do you do a percentage split? 55% of the engine weight behind the front axles is front mid?

“This is a great way to learn about a car.”

You could go one step further and just have a powered skateboard with shipping containers on top, like the way piggy back train cars work. But you’re right, there’s no real reason to keep the tractor part of a semi unless you want to haul standard trailers.

1st Gear: All Volvos Will Be Hybrid Or Electric After 2019

Tesla’s system seems to be lacking a fail-safe. How the car kept going at full speed with all those warnings to the driver is pretty strange. The software should have assumed he was dying or polishing his charmed long-staff and hit the brakes.

There is also the fact that all of us insure the banks through the federal government and have a right to expect that banks aren’t running around purposely shoveling out loans they know people can’t pay off, then leave us holding the bag of garbage.

“Aztek. Because you just might end up homeless.”

I fill my tires exclusively with the nitrogen present in exhaled whippets.

I swapped out my dog’s chew toy for urethane. Doubles as a squeaky toy.

I hope this is a real airship and not just Brin going nuts and attempting the world’s largest “Zeppelins West” cosplay.