A former staffer (possibly Ashley Feinberg? I can’t remember) posted it to a kinja blog, and it lasted through a few days of them trying and failing to take it down, which seems to have had a Streisand-effect.

It’s that roofline applied to an early ‘00s Opel front-end, I think.

It’s registered as a kit car (looking it up it’s offically a Sofa AirEdd) and street legal in the UK, but I imagine it’s some California thing.

The orange thing is incredibly Corsa C / Astra H and the green thing is giving me Fiat Stilo and Opel Zafira vibes.

I love the beige Eastern European thing for how well it’s taking all that inspiration and coming up with something that’s pretty distinctand doesn’t seem like it’s just a bunch of different pieces of real…

It was everything the internet can be. Thank you.

Teams at that level will mostly be semi-pro.
Nowhere near enough money to live on, but they’ll still be getting paid a little.

It’s about the 10th tier where the amateur teams start being really common.

Seeing Fast & Furious 7 in a cinema gave me hearing damage.

You could ask Bristol, but they’d just be insulted you needed to ask.

If you look at Supras, they’re still expensive even though early ones have been importable for the last couple of years.
It’s driven up the cost of them everywhere else in the world.

Buying a new car and going through all the ‘down’ to get to the ‘up’ is crazy, but picking up 23 year old cars and waiting for them to become US-legal has been a pretty sure-fire way to make money that I’ve been kicking myself over missing out on with the R32 Skylines and Supras, which both doubled in value within a…

The carbon fibre body is too environmentally unfriendly for that. The drivetrain would need to go into a Morgan.

Two RX8s, so one can be driven while the other gets rebuilt.

Now you’re just making me feel awful for passing up a dirt-cheap Integra Type R at the weekend :(

No, the National Indoor Arena and the National Exhibition Centre are two different places. The Arena is in the middle of the city and the NEC is more a trade show convention centre style place out by the airport.

I don’t know the percentage of people who paid to see it vs. won tickets in a packet of cornflakes or…

I can’t stop seeing the buttons for a lift in some fancy mid ‘00s office building, particularly those seemingly randomly placed little squares outside the black stripe.

Depends on exchange rates but R32s bottomed out around $12k, R33s around $10k and R34s around $35k, about 10 years back. So kind of the same price as RX7s and mk4 Supras. They’ve all skyrocketed since then.

Aldershot, earlier in 1992.

It’s very common for teams to go through the equivalent of chapter 11 and come out the other side. But the last time a team at this level actually closed down was in the early ‘90s.

It’s typically the lower semi-professional levels where teams actually die (though some of those have played at higher levels before a…

The previous guy was also just as dodgy, so they seemed to have gone “ah, fuck it, can’t get any worse”. Then it got worse.

It’s for switching between moving the cursor or just scrolling in DOS text editors.