I’ve had several high profile interviews, first dates, etc, but nothing has prepared me for the amount of nervousness when the safety inspector is looking over a car you’ve hand built in your garage for the first time.

Bad notes? Unexpected traction change since recce? Loki having a good laugh?

Welcome to the future

Top Gear Top Tip: Costco and Sam’s Club around October to December carry a wide variety of 1/18 scale model cars for less than $15 bucks. Best bang for your buck model out there. I have an unhealthy amount of models from Costco.

Using all my years of experience as a professional race car driver, great situational awareness and cat like reflexes dumb fucking luck I went for a small gap that opened up in front of me and managed to squeeze through without getting punted by the rest of the guys.

A Stormtrooper car must be the safest car on the road. It’ll never hit anything.

I had heart palpitations when I saw this in the BAT daily e-mail this morning...then wept softly into my coffee when I realized I have no money.

With a shift pattern that resembles the NCAA tournament bracket it also serves as a theft deterrent.

That's just great, I put in a $10,000 bill and get $1,000 worth of dimes in change.

Man, if your comment is to shit on another man’s pride and joy, you need to step up your comment game.

First rule of VAG, never talk about cheatclub.

You’re fun at parties, aren’t you?

Oh, man. I love chicken wings so much. The only problem is that my knowledge of “hot” seems to be far and beyond what New York considers hot. I want to feel pain and poop fire for the next week. Bring me hot.

Somewhere there is a sadly departed Scotsman looking down and saying ‘that’s cute this is how to drive an Escort Mk 2’

Ahhhhhhhh!

GROM SCRAMBLER

This is good Jalopnik. Should we start a commenter pool on the total paid out of warranty at the end? I say $15,499.

I, too, thought this was especially stupid until I actually arrived at the Fun2Drive rental counter outside Tokyo where I was picking up the last bone-stock R34 Skyline on Earth in order to film last night’s episode of /DRIVE on NBC Sports. Even though Fun2Drive’s cool-ass owner, Yoshi, spoke and read perfect English,…