On a side note, this Barracuda IndyCar is so silly looking I would have put money on it being an extra from that the next Marvel film.

Wow, that's fascinating—and by fascinating I mean incredibly old news. I visited the ATR factory in Italy 22 years ago, and right beside the Minardi F1 chassis were Colnago carbon frames.

My sister is a Longmont Fire firefighter. I'll let her know you said thanks ;)

Hopefully OBDII. I like OBDII's simplicity, and plugging the bluetooth adapter into that big, chunky serial port reminds me of '90s computing, but a simple USB port and an upgraded diagnostic system could make taking care of cars much less mystifying to the average billy.

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I always thought it was "Kosh-kye", but I honestly have no idea.

Have to disagree a bit there. It's more like "Ruh-no" and "Puh-zjo". A lot of foreigners seem to think that you pronounce the "e" in Renault open (like "ay", Ray-no), but it is very much closed, almost more like the "u" sound in the word "burn", and, incidentally, very similar to the "eu" in Peugeot.

But trying to…

The launch of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ship last year looked like it went perfectly, except holy crap it looked like it exploded and killed a lady. Everyone survived, there were just injuries. So what happened?

I think the resale value will be hurt enough by this interior, he deserves to have the exterior that matches. His craigslist listing for EYE-SEARING BLUE/EYE-SEARING BLUE BMW M3 just won't make sense otherwise.

To be fair though, if he paid for it, he deserves to get it. The mockery that comes from actually paying…

I hate to tell Dutch, but Leigh's technically got it right. If he had written "Grand Prix" in the singular, we'd have a problem, but as it is a French phrase, the "s" is silent in "Grands", and therefore pronounced the same as the singular.

Sorry Dutch, your American is showing.

If it's based on either of those cars, the designer of the B6 should be blacklisted forever. The Spyker has such awful proportions that it has to be seen to be believed (that rear fender—ouch), and yet the Artega and Evora are the exact opposite. My only hope would be that maybe someone gets a quick redesign in before…

The slave trade, blunt honesty, and one-pot meals aren't stereotypes—they're cold hard facts. Pot-smoking, clog-wearing, mumbly, Gouda-eating "not quite Germans" are perfectly good stereotypes that are still fun to play with though :)

The Wild Rubis uses lots of chrome, LEDs and sculptured details to impress its audience. We shall see how much of the styling can make it into production, but I would bet a beer on the answer being "pretty much everything." Citroën is pretty good at that.

The Aero X concept was, and still is, approximately 10,367% better in every way than the PhoeniX Concept. In the metal, the PhoeniX was one of the most awkwardly proportioned cars I've ever seen (really, somehow worse than the photos), and it looks like Castriota had carried that through to the production prototype. I…

I don't actually think he's a very good designer. While I think the P4/5 is great and the Maserati GrandTurismo good too, they were both done while he was in the heart of the Pininfarina organization. His later solo works, from the Mantide to the Phoenix Concept, were questionable to awful (the Phoenix, in particular,…

I think the most beautiful bit of the car is actually the hardest to wrap your head around in photos, the semi-detached from fender. When seen from a slightly more front three-quarter view than this, it is truly gorgeous.

This is a car that really has to be seen in the metal to appreciate though, and even then it took…

This mushy POS is not retro styled, it's just badly styled. No, the 4C wouldn't be better off looking like a melted Marcos model, it would be better as a unique and modern interpretation of Alfa's former awesomeness.

And, um, the worst headlight cluster in a decade should be high on the list too. Fact is, despite the price, the quality is clearly shit. They wouldn't even open the doors to show the interior, not a good sign for a supposed production model!

Years ago this happened to me on my way home from work. Saw a huge fireball blaze across the sky and then seemingly explode. When I got home I couldn't believe it wasn't on the news, but days later I found out it had been hundreds of miles away and had simply disintegrated over Ohio somewhere. Mother effin' nature. 

Yeah, it's pretty cool except that he's had to Photoshop back in the kid's head because his rig was in the way. Maybe setting the camera to the left of the bar (subject side) would be a better idea for next time.