TGAC(Top Gear After Clarkson) is horrible. It has nothing to do with the hosts although the Screaming Guy does suck pretty bad. It’s more the producing and writing. I bet you could take an old script and run the Joey and Screaming Guy through it and it would be a decent show. Obviously that won’t work as we’ve seen…

It’s the amazing Korres Project 4. Looks like a pre-production testbed.

The government should not require all cars have airbags, they should require cars to pass safety tests with any means necessary and not focus on specific safety devices cars must have.

I built LEGO helicopters, crashed them into my LEGO police station, rebuilt everything, and then destroyed it all again.

No.

I'm sorry, I must have missed something here. Am I reading this right? a fwd car with staggered wheel sizes—and the bigger ones are on the back? Must make for an amusing ride to say the least

This. It's called the Helios, named after the Greek god of wind.

So...your argument is that since these loans are basically zero risk to the lender to give out to buyers? Got it! I'll be out starting my own auto finance business if anyone needs me, since all I can do is profit! It's so simple I won't even bother with credit checks!

oh that's a must read thanks.

and on other news today

"Despite the fact that 32% of all auto-loans are going to sub-prime customers, the vast majority of car buyers are making payments just fine."

De Gaulle

Ron Paul's green machine. Below are high res versions of the photos from the original jalopnik article. I emailed Ron Paul's website when the story first came out and they sent me some hi res versions, feel free to use them.

Anything with 5 cylinders. Specifically cheap, the Rabbit/Golf. Throw a header on there and... well

I'm not here from the safety brigade, but I do find Jalopnik's stance on street racing confusing:
"STREET RACING IS THE WORST THING EVER AND WE SHOULD FIND EVERYONE WHO DOES IT AND BEAT THEM WITH A STICK OMGOMGOMG"
"Look, this guy street raced for a reeeeeally long time, so now it's cool"
I'll admit that I find it kind…