Ooooh, the V Max! Just plain incredible. One of the best-sounding engines ever. Also, gut-wrenchingly fast.

Side with the 1%. Because they're totally looking out for you. Wake. Up.

Jason, I recently saw an old kinda rusty VW Beetle of uncertain age for sale in a used-car lot for $1,500. Should I buy it? I should buy it.

The Jeep design studio is on a roll.

Hey now, my pops has a A3 diesel with the DSG and sport package. It's crazy nice and the transmission is a great match for the torquey little engine. And the A3 Sportback looks about a million times better than the Jetta Sportwagon. 10/10 would daily drive.

Man, I really can't imagine that kind of acceleration in a car. I've experienced it on a motorcycle and it's positively insane.

Thanks! And no problem, not your fault. It's Krantz's responsibility to mention income inequality. Then again, he's not really writing for us. He's writing for wealthy investors.

Did USA Today mention stagnant wages, growing income inequality and the wealth gap? You know, the things that make it IMPOSSIBLE for most middle-income workers to save money? Because that's the real story here. Also, I can survive on much less than $50,000 a year today. MUCH less. /rant

I wrote about the Crower Six Stroke a while back. Crower had put the project on hold due to illness. http://www.ridelust.com/crower-six-str…

If you're Jay Leno, pretty close. If you're us... Too far away. Much too far away, my friend. One day, though.

Awesome facts: "The styling for all Nash vehicles at that time was an amalgam of designs from Pininfarina of Italy and the in-house Nash design team."

Pininfarina! No wonder it looks so great.

Also, it was built by Austin. It had the venerable(?) B-series engine found in so many MGs and Austins. This MKIV left the…

My friend knows a guy who owned a Maserati Quattroporte. He said he had to sell it because it needed too much maintenance. He got a Land Rover to replace it.

Holy crap. So many advantages from one great idea. Love it! Way to go Mercedes! Also, I want a split turbo.

Holy crap, that thing looks like some bad-ass scrimshaw whale-bone knife. I had forgotten how awesome it looked.

But note the awesome Bently-style supercharger hanging out front. That part, at least, is awesome. And, what, a V16 under the hood?

Sadly, it seems that whoever dictated how the car should look seems to have thought something roughly akin to that last paragraph there, and then done the exact opposite. And then swallowed a handful of pills, washed it down with drugstore gin, and started sketching. With a crayon, or maybe a carrot stick dunked in…

It has 30 valves. Right?

HEMTT for the WIN. They also make a diesel/electric version. Electric motors, diesel generators. It's basically a small power station on wheels. It can power a small airstrip.

Three tenths of a second. .3 seconds. 1/3 rd of a second.

We purchased a Mazda5 specifically because it came with a manual. Such a fun, awesome van. I dream of a W8 4Motion Jetta with a manual, but yeah, they're the rarest of rare. I settled for an A4 3.0 with a six-speed manual, which is pretty rare, too. It's nice, but it doesn't have the consistently fantastic feel that…