It's the worst of both worlds! Which means they'll sell like crazy.

*looks around club, checks to make sure it's empty*

So, what happened between last year and this that allowed Vettel to kick so much ass?

Nissan Juke Nismo: Proof that if you take a car that is odd and misshapen, lower it, add some skirts and big, fancy wheels and a racy color scheme you get a lowered, skirted car that's still odd and yet somehow pleasing to the eye. I'm so confused.

I know it's smaller than the Genesis coupe, which is a good thing, but it looks an awful lot similar, which isn't.

Car dealer in Texas attempts to destroy a 1953 Cadillac by throwing the earth at it, fails.

I would have to say I'm driving my guilty pleasure. It's fail-wheel-drive, too small to be practical, yet too big to pay proper homage to the original, has notorious issues (power steering pump, control arm bushings, etc.) and gets so-so milage for a small car.

Watching the F1 cars is a lesson in how to flatten the curves and thereby shorten the tack.

Looks like outtakes from a sex ed film.

Cost per plastic cover: $0.10*

It might have been something even weirder than vegetable oil, like marshmallow fluff.

There have been a couple of weird ones here in Atlanta this year. Back in the summer, there was a spill of some sort of cooking substance (vegetable oil?) that caught fire. I still see the stain it left in the asphalt. Earlier in the year there was a spill of live chickens: [www.ajc.com]

Yeah, they try to be clever with the wording: "objects coming from roadway" is not the same as "objects coming out of this truck". Then comes the argument where the company says, "How do you know the object wasn't on the road already?"

I've noticed that now dump trucks now have signs that say something to the effect of: "NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR OBJECTS COMING FROM ROADWAY." Which is their clever way of saying, "If a rock flies out of here and hits your windshield, don't bitch at me."

Auto dealers want Black Friday sales? That sounds more than a little misguided to me. It's great to look at an aggregate number in dollars spent and say, "We should get in on that", but it ignores decision-making process that goes into buying a car. I would assume that most car-buyers want to know what they're getting…

Sorry to hear about Vinny, Ray.

Fiat's new T-shirt:

No equipment needed.

Right. The sound-deadening is so great in that car that Infiniti have followed BMW's example and are piping in the engine noises through the stereo. Only instead of the starter motor, the system plays that song.

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