I live in the NJ suburbs where you get pulled over and there are at least 2 DeTomaso Panteras around here. They’re not really interesting unless they’ve been restomodded and that’s a weird rabbit hole to go down.

Renegade Hybrids Porsche, maybe a boxster, with an LS-motor would definitely be worth reading about. Along…

Maybe the 70’s were a step back for everyone. I tried watching “The Jerk” and the amount of racism in it made me uncomfortable almost immediately.

You should probably be on the no fly list for being psychopathic and weird.

I had a friend with a v6 model. It had the worst interior of any car I’ve ever been inside, and I was in an AMC Gremlin once. Maybe they can go fast, but they’re bad cars. They’re just a bad place to be. It’s like being inside Al Bundy’s high school football memories and despair.

The super awkward commentary/vocal inflection by the guy playing is making me uncomfortable. The faces are hilarious but man... go outside and talk to other humans occasionally before you start youtubing.

I’m curious - aside from the spider, why does it seem like a lot of people in the US like this brand? Is it because Top Gear shamed everyone into thinking something is wrong with them when they don’t like these cars? Is it just because they’re different?

We had simulators which were pointless and also classroom instruction where we saw pictures of DUI accidents with disembodied arms. My first time driving consisted of me getting into a beige chevy malibu in the parking lot of the DMV after school. It started to snow and then I drove on a bunch of main roads which were…

It could be worn knowingly tongue in cheek or with a kind of kitschy self-awareness... It would fit in pretty well with the modern dance between sarcastic irony and sincerity being performed seemingly all the time.

If they end up succeeding with automated transportation as visioned, I can’t really imagine a future where self-driven cars intermingle with significantly faster, tighter grouped, safer automated cars in most instances. I think people might be overestimating the future place for self-driven cars. At best, I imagine…