I did the rice thing and added an HKS exhaust to my Fit. With the short shifter, lightweight wheels, camber bolts and rear sway bar, this is a hilarious car to hoon.

Autoblog was my go to for years and years. Then they kept changing their comment section to the point that it was unusable and I found Jalopnik.

Miata is Always...blah blah blah. Get creative and practical.

Man, for years my normal first two sites I opened rotation was Autoblog and Jalopnik. As you mentioned, there was a strong difference in the two blog styles that complimented each other very well and left us, the readership, with a wealth of information on all the goings on in the auto world.

Dodge Charger.

AMG? More like OMG...

1st Gen Ford Taurus SHO. You’ll have to try to get pulled over...

There are a lot of candidates for this list, but I’m going with one of the more attainable ones.

Beat me to it. Came to say the same thing.

A lot of these vehicles are overpriced for what you get, the Hornet is a neat little car but the MSRP is at least $5K too high to start off and rapidly goes off the rails, the PHEV is just insanely priced for what you get.

I agree and that is what my second paragraph was mostly about. I also had no idea what BTFU meant and when I searched for it I got, Botswana Federation of Trade Unions. But I am assuming the second one I got, Boiler the Fudge (I assume fuck also works here) up, is the right version.

Am I the only one who doesn’t know what BFTU means?

Insurance makes sense for a $100K contest, but I’m surprised a dealership that can afford a $15M donation would bother with insurance for a $5K prize.

Good he took the cash, definitely better to avoid having any future dealings with that dealership.

My college girlfriend and I drove the non-convertible version of this car from Minneapolis to Seattle in 1985. The interstate mountain passes were absolutely harrowing. I’d rather be hit by this car than buy it.

I figure $3,500 would be the correct dollar amount.  That is, for the seller to pay me to take the car.

ND I had a friend who owned one of these back in the ‘80's, it was a pain to own back then, doubt it has improved like fine wine.

Does Consumer Reports have a problem with you guys regularly just reposting their reporting? I thought they were fiercely protective of their content. 

I honestly didn’t know that Hoonigan was anything other than a slogan or name. I associated it with Ken Block but that’s as far as it went for me. To discover it’s an actual business with $1.2 billion in debt blows my mind as much as those gymkhana videos. This might be part of their business problem.

It looks like the Italian Job and Duel screenwriters were influenced by Cy Endfield’s Hell Drivers. Also features a very young Sean Connery, definitely worth a watch.