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Pull up next to some youth in a WRX, or a riced Civic - you know, one that will try to race you when the light is no longer red. They'll look at you like, "aw, nah, brah. This dude in his Grand Prix be tryin' ta front! I live mah life a quarter-mile at a time. V-tec just kicked in yo! — Holy crap, where did that…

Couldn't you get both a reasonable Miata, AND a middling-to-somewhat-decent Z3 for that price? And neither one with a carbureted Buick V6? Hell, drop your standards on one or the other, and you could probably find room in the budget for the ol' GM girl, too, provided she doesn't have much wrapped around her.

I'm told I rode home in my mother's lap with my father driving his white Opel Kadett wagon. As I grew, this would come to be known as the "Old Opel" and would sit derelict in our driveway for several of my formative years. My Dad then procured another Kadett, white with fake wood-grain panels, which we called the…

I was going to say the same thing about a 1980 VW Vanagon with 4 on the floor. Just so you get an idea of what "slow" really is before you go out on Jalopnik and call some car, say the BRZ, "slow"

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I must be remembering something wrong, then, because I fly to Atlanta from Bloomington, IL twice a year, and I'm always on a 737-200. Yes, all of them I've been on seem ready to fall apart at any moment.

Amen!

Yes. I understand that a WRX (and really all Subarus) are supposed to be utilitarian, and all about the powertrain, but they can do better than an interior from a 1980's Hyundai.

Foresters are on that list, too. Reminds me that I have to get mine done. I wish I didn't hate the local dealership so bad...

Run the course from the famous movie "Cannonball Run" in budget supercars. Challege - be faster than the other 2 guys. Better yet, do the same thing, but for the course from "The Great Race". New York to Paris, baby!!!

YES! Hook up with Ice Road Truckers. Challenge - purchase a tow vehicle and trailer for less than 3500 quid. Do the route faster and more accurately than the boys in the big rigs. They always talk about trucks going through the ice - build with that in mind. Lighter = less chance of breaking through, or work on…

My wife's 2010 Mitsubishi Outlander has proximity keys, and there's no dedicated spot to put them while driving. It's also, on more than one occasion, gotten confused and automatically locked the keys in the car and refused to open. I had to drive home and rescue her one time. Other than that, it works great, and…

I do remember an episode (Series 10, Episode 7) where the "Producers" "Forced" our trio of British motor-car enthusiasts to pay for their cars out of their own pockets. This being a test of 1970's British Leyland vehicles, Capitan Slow was, of course, the victor. http://www.topgear.com/uk/videos/bl-s…

There's one of these sitting derelict outside my mechanic's garage. It's not always in the same place, so I think it might run (or just be small and easy to push...) At any rate, it's this exact color. I'll bet he'd make you a heck of a deal on it ;)

Not sure if want.  Also, Jeep looks like Fry...

Rowan Atkinson has the answer for you, and he's a relitively decent driver.  Let's have a look at how a McLaren F1 could kill an unprepared celeb.  No traction control.  No ABS.  618 HP and 480 lb-ft to the rear wheels.  At least it's supposed to be very safe if you flip it.  Not good for us gearheads, what with the…

clicking the sideways button over and over to read all the comments is the single most irritating thing I've had to do all week, and I have a 2-year-old son and a pregnant wife.  Cars are meant to occasionally go sideways.  The Internet never is.

I live in a central Illinois college town that's right in the middle of a cornfield.  There's a group of kids that all drive lifted Dodges with HID headlights and Cummins motors with pipes that poke skyward through the bed.  They love to drag race down the road that goes from their apartment complex to the road all…