So what do we learn from this story?

Any car whose name is loosely translated as "holy shit!" has to be awesome.

It's one of the best-looking bubble-hatch C-3s I've ever seen but pipe by at least 5k.

@gielamonster: Since when is a 2.0 a tiny engine? The F20 is surely one of the best 4 cylinder engines ever made but it's not tiny by any stretch.

@FrigidBridget: So men drive half-again as many miles, get in more than 2.25 times as many accidents, and cause more monetary damage than women because we're more agressive. I'll say that the higher insurance premiums are worth it because we can pee wherever we want.

I had an ex-girlfriend that I would constantly remind to please pay attention to the road. She would go on the extreme defensive — claiming she knew what she was doing, and that I had no right to criticize her driving skills because I had lost my license (for not paying a speeding fine — I didn't have the money since…

@Jared904: but... the RX7 is faster, more reliable, and gets better gas mileage with a 5.7 LS1 swap — and the handling differences are minimal. So I would have to disagree with the rotary fans here.

@fhrblig: I'm fatter than Clarkson. I have to roll down windows to fit inside a Miata, C3 Corvette, or most exotics but the tiny Hondas and Toyotas seem to swallow me. I drove all 3 generations of MR2 at different points and CRXs and Del Sols feel just fine.

@tonyola: There's a Honda motorcycle shop about an hour from me that — as a side business — specializes in customizing and restoring Honda motorcycle-powered cars. At AutoFair last year they had a 600Z coupe powered by a 90s CBR600 engine with mini-cooper style panasport ultralites. It was a nasty little ride.

@sprale: Here's an article for you:

However, if you read through the build process on this Turbo Forums post you'll see the seller (shoebox1.1) really seems to be a decent guy(who just happens to be completely, absolutely, and unequivocally batshit fucking crazy)

There are so many cars on this list with displacement over a liter—a whole LITER!— but a few cars with tiny engines should be on here as well:

Earl A Thompson, who led a group of engineers at Cadillac to develop the Hydra-Matic transmission.

I had an ex-girlfriend try to justify her breakup with me by using a Bret Easton Ellis novel — the rules of attraction—she tried to use this to make me feel better about the fact that she wasn't really into me. I haven't talked to her since that conversation.

I like Terry Cruz as the Old Spice guy.

@Krautwagen: I LOLd heavily at all the butthurt

@Krautwagen: he's trolling. Turtletron is a well-established troll on 4chan's /o/ board. He even has a tripcode. It's still hilarious, though.

@CrabSpirits: All I can do is look at the pictures, but I can tell that the content is superbly written and informative

@mpgomatic: It was the powerless early VW diesels and the problematic Olds diesels that ruined compression ignition for passenger cars in the US 30 years ago. I remember a conversation from my 8th birthday party "Yeah your new Golf might get 50 miles per gallon but you'll need all of it to find a damned station that…