It's amazing what you can do with zero regulation, zero environmental control, and zero unions. We used to build stuff like this too.

Unless her dad takes it off her hands... You know, as partial compensation for her tuition. I know that's what I'd do if my daughter won a sweet classic car on some game show.

I just sorta figured that drainage ditches in Russia were where you generally found Lada's anyway.

Snoop is friggin' awesome. Such a goddamn character.

OOOH thats a GOOD one.

Hm. I've seen better ones go at approximately this price recently; Bring A Trailer is usually very good at finding these cars whenever they pop up for sale.

Will.Lie.Am

Not most American drivers.

So you're never going to want to ever drive anywhere other than work, and going to invest forty grand into something that can only be used for one purpose. Makes sense.

The Lotus Forum (specifically the subsection on Guigaro Esprits):

Wasn't this a subplot from Bridesmaids?

Let's just say that Fergie has been known to leak.

But...but...carbon! Peak oil! The sky is falling!

Clearly you're a glass is half full type of guy.

I wonder how many people will get that joke.

I think we're pretty much guaranteed to be in a shooting war with China in about 20 years. We'll be glad to have the Raptors at that point.

Does the writing staff at Gizmodo take a giant bottle of stupid pills immediately before writing articles about military technology? Is that, like, policy over there?

They already can, and have. GPS signals are ridiculously easy to overpower and spoof. The stealth drone that ended up in Iranian hands was captured in that manner, and that was the absolute pinnacle of our technology. It's not hard to imagine a more sophisticated enemy being able to not only capture the drone, but use…

Get an audio recording app for your phone and start recording every single interaction between you and your boss and coworkers. You'll have ammo to use against him with HR, or when you sue for wrongful termination.

It's hard to find a successful society in history in which slaves and laborers WEREN'T well fed. Starving workers don't do good work. Everyone from the Egyptians to the Romans to the Gauls knew this.