You caught me.

[james may voice] CLARKSON!

Typical fat, loud, uncouth and uninformed American. :)

That's what I thought as well - heat was not the problem with Lada's. Actually Lada's were not that bad - I worked at a Lada dealership in my teens - try doing that - selling Ruskie cars during the cold war. One year working at the auto show in town - I had several people come up ready to fight - "You want me to…

Please let us freely import cars at our own risk! I will gladly pay the taxes, and I will gladly pay to get it altered to meet US lighting standards. I know the cost of importing an taxes will make any such purchase silly, but damnit it's my money. Just stop giving me a bullshit reason for why I can't freely…

A lot of drivers owe their lives to Dale Sr. If it were not for his death, the mandated H.A.N.S and closed face helmet rules would not have happened as quickly. The Gen5 and Gen 6 stock cars may not have been designed to dissipate energy (read explode into a shower of Styrofoam and steel) when in an accident. The…

Glacial profiling.

Oh, so the BLACK ice has to be set up to take the blame, huh?

C'mon, you have to admit this story was begging for this:

I seem to be its sole defender stateside. R33 was my absolute favorite. But I am in the VAST minority

1973: Because of a rare genetic mutation that makes the males in the Torchinsky clan particularly susceptible to the lure of unusual vehicles, Papa Torchinsky becomes intrigued (and possibly slightly aroused) at the thought of owning a new VW Golf with the sliding doors.

While you saw a new kind of crazy, yesteraday I saw a new kind of stupid.

timing chains. Not belts. Can easily change all chains without removing motor.

I'm just so incredibly happy to be alive!