Don’t get me wrong, I say go for it too, but I’m not a reliable source of good advice

Everyone knows it, sure, but for marketing purposes, F1 doesn’t need it making headlines and reminding people. It’d be good press for the individual team or driver, but bad for the sport. Say in a couple of years somebody took a current car and stripped weight by losing the halo, uncorked the KERS, ran on an empty…

I imagine the tightwads in charge of F1 would frown on even using an unrestricted retired car from the previous season. There’s probably some rule about not making the series look bad by implying that it’s not letting teams deliver on the promise of the ultimate in performance and technology. Porsche can flip everyone…

Just a couple of years until Mazda and Toyota open their joint venture plant, though... but hopefully by then we’ll have an adult in the Oval Office and this storm will blow over.

It’s cool, you can take a leaf from Patches O’Houlihan’s book.  Smaller engines, hybrids, less noise...and...smaller engines.

Smaller engines, hybrids, and less noise are three things.  What’s the fourth?

I’ve never lived outside the midwest, and I’ve never needed anything larger than a Ranger. In the 10 years since I got rid of the Ranger, the only time I’ve actually needed any of the capability I gave up was hauling a few 4x8s, and I managed to jam those diagonally into the back of my Mazda6 wagon...which was a…

Even the name’s only half American

I was thinking about asking who that was, but after reading the first handful of comments, I have decided that I don’t want to know.

Half the problem with sedans these days is that the back window isn’t closer to the driver, except at the top. Modern sloping rooflines, whether for aerodynamics or style, drag the base of the C-pillar back almost to the back end of the car. This ruins the visibility advantage, and covers 80% of the trunk, so that the…

I would never buy a smoker’s car because of the smell, but a smoker car? That’s a different story.

I think the first one would be the perfect excuse for a nice set of tasteful yellow rally lights. Just hook them up to the blinkers, too.

You’d think that as long as they’re putting all those black plastic filler panels in the grille and below the headlights, they could hide the sensor pods behind them. Do they really need to blister out so obviously?

These are still in my cheap car dream garage. And this one says “ZOOMIE” on it!

I get that Corvette always wants to beat Porsche, but they really should benchmark the new ones, not James Dean’s.

I appreciate this deeply in my soul and all, but why is this on Deadspin and not on The Takeout? Did I miss something for Tokyo 2020 where we will see poo-flinging alongside shotput and discus? If so, Canada seems well prepared, but never discount America’s ability to sink to the occasion.

COTD

Does it come served in a cone that breaks in half after two or three good licks, and does it take four months and $6500 to get a new cone, and also you got salmonella from that brief, delicious taste?

Last time I checked (about 20 years ago in Catholic grade school), the current teaching was that anyone who made a sincere effort to find God and to live a good life could be saved by Jesus, even if they didn’t believe in him. Surprisingly chill, right? But obviously it’s not embraced by a lot of Catholics, which is…

A van would only block that much 10% of the time, because the driver would have bought a sedan instead because vans aren’t a fashion statement.