Things like this remind me that I'm going to look on this fondly when we're all riding in electric cars driven by our robot butlers.

I think ol' GW would be powersliding muuuuuch more than this commercial makes us believe.

As a guy who's designed many, many logos, I can only hope that one day a guy graphs one of mine to his body.

@Shtig: I'd vote for the podrace scene too, but only because it ruined Star Wars for me. For a race to take a great piece of my childhood and essentially pimp-smack it to death for more money is definitely deserving top prize.

@Vette5885: Ah, okay, because I had a question. Does the fact that the light position is universal (stop is on top, yield middle, green bottom) do anything? Or is being colorblind in relation to a traffic signal such an impediment that adding shapes would greatly help?

@Ash78, lay them straight: I am so totally with you on this one.

It will never happen, but you can't deny the awesome; you have Ken gymkhana 3 places and edit them together.

Wait a minute, are you telling me that having an insular population with limited contact with the outside world who is then radiated twice only to be plugged in and given the full '1st-world' treatment over a single lifetime will somehow do something odd?

@johnvarry: My wife has one, and I know for a fact she loves that more than me. The regular Capri was a piece of junk, but that little XR2 can haul.

Car part? I'm with you on the turbo charger. My wife has a Mercury (RIP) Capri XR that has a turbo on it, and being picked up with that on a first date was spectacular.

@Super Traction Engine: I've been in gallery showings, I design for a living - this is what would happen if a client said, "Drink all this cough syrup and listen to Dark Side of the Moon, then design our car wrap."

What a waste. There's not a single reason to look at it for longer than 3 seconds besides to think, "BMW paid money for this?"

Okay, producers of the soon-to-probably-be-cancelled-American-version-of-Top-Gear-with-less-hyphens-than-this-phrase, I think you should have a segment called "Auto Insanity" or the like where you showcase a....well, let's call them 'fabricators' and they go through explaining why they did things like this.

Cans cans everywhere; and not a drop to drink.

And I have just found another blog I'll be following. Although seriously, everyone who rides and drives would rather be riding. You can see it in the envious stares from other riders as they're penned in their minivans hauling their kids around.

Okay, stick with me on this one. So, he figures a way to make an insane amount of money being tall. Product endorsements, staring in the remake of "My Giant", whatever. Then, he buys a Maybach.

@Mr. Scroggs: Actually, in the Ascari example, Monaco wasn't the thing that jumped. But it did make a big splash.

@oddfish: I know, it completely threw me off

@sharkd: I'm going to have to disagree with Mid-Ohio; the track isn't very wide. Turbo'd Acuras and crotch-rockets are one thing, but a full grid of F1 cars on that track would look like a parade as opposed to a race.

Silly question, but other than the X-Games, is Rally covered at all on American TV?