I gave my SHO with a bad transmission to a guy who was building a SHOpaz. 90 Mercury Topaz AWD sedan. I wonder if he ever got it built...

The only thing for which I am jealous of the rich is the lack of accountability for their actions. As I see it, these kids should have their drivers' licenses taken away indefinitely, until they learn their fucking lesson.

I currently drive my fiancée's powder- blue VW New Beetle convertible. I'm surprised that one isn't on the list. My mom is definitely not gay, but traded her Subaru Legacy wagon for a Hyundai Sonata. My ex-girlfriend drives a Juke. I am currently between cars. Numbers aren't everything.

I'm quite glad that when my fiancée bought her bug convertible, she chose the baby blue/gray combo. She was looking at one that color.

Absolute true story:

These have shown up with alarming frequency on the Charlotte Craigslist. There are two ads up right now, and one of them is for two cars. Another is a very similar car but with an autobox and the alloy wheels that Mercedes Benz deemed good enough to copy for the CLK 18 years later: [charlotte.craigslist.org] The…

I seee some people don't get the joke...

Japan seemed to do the "Sporty Commuter Coupe" genre better than any other. The Prelude, Celica, Eclipse/Talon/Laser, and Probe/MX6 were good cars with good chassis and excellent handling for front-wheel-drive hairdressers' cars. The top models often came with goodies like all-wheel-drive and turbocharging, making…

I worked for a GM subsidiary in about 2005 when they plastered an SS badge on anything with more than 200 hp. As such, I had access to the GM Intelligence website that had a few interesting published market studies. One document I read outlined the idea to fully exploit the SS badge and include an Uplander SS and…

Am I the only one who notices the car is washing out with understeer in some of the tighter corners? The (excellent) driver knows how to handle such a thing and thus keeps it together to pull off this amazing lap time, but as CID_Vicious below states - you need to know how to drive it. This driver does.

I'm surprised that this technology hasn't already been implemented. GM usedcomposite plastics in their truck beds to save weight for several years - but it was an option that not many people took because of the extra cost (despite a weight savings of over 200 lbs and a bed that didn't need a liner.

The law in NC is that drivers are allowed to use electronic devices while stopped. That includes while sitting at a light. I've gotten the honk while sending or reading a text or email at a light.

I'm surprised by the lack of comments comparing this 40-year-old luxury coupe's handling and braking to modern cars. There's not a single comment about how a modern Civic could outrun, outbrake, and outhandle this 4300-lb behemoth from the beginning of the Malaise era.

I'm glad to see that the prices for vintage MOPAR are finally starting to drop a little more into reality. A few years ago this would have been a million-dollar car. It had gotten so bad that even base-o-matic 72 and 73 Cudas with 318s were selling for over 30k in "Decent Driver" condition. A Plymouth is not a…

I'll have mine in Silver over dark red leather, thank you. Like the old 300SL roadster. The sepang brown reminds me of the motorcycles they drove in the Top Gear Vietnam Special.

I did a GIS for this poster because it was one of many - and found it on a QOTD from september 2007: [jalopnik.com] . There was this Lamborghini, a General Lee jumping through the air, a Knight Rider Trans Am, and a Ferrari 308.

I-40 between Hickory and Statesville is often sparsely monitored by the black-and-silver. There are a lot of nice roads in North Carolina that lead to some serious high-speed fun. Perth road isn't one of them - at 2 PM on a Tuesday afternoon anyway. Had he done it at 3 AM there wouldn't be a ticket or any publicity.…

Perth Road is hardly remote, unless you mean "remote" as in "snaking through the country from a town of 32,000 past high-dollar subdivisions, million-dollar lake homes, family farms, schools, churches, several marinas, residential areas, and into a smaller town of about 2,000"

As an adult, I'd play this one to destruction. But if I had 1/2 a million to buy it I'd probably have half a million to rebuild it.

Have you ever seen a man eat his own head?