Heh, if there's anyone who won't put up with getting a crap license plate, it's you, 87. ;)

I'm with you on the functionality part — the turbo, AWD and chassis are all great things to have in a car. It seems to been crafted in the same vein as the Aztec — abortively ugly, yet that ugliness is what makes it distinctive. The Aztec went out of production, what 7 years ago? Yet, people still talk about it.

Yes, that the biggest problem with this method of checking — I really wish I could get a decent height-calculation, as it would be perpendicular to the direction of motion and not subject to the blurring issue.

Given the assumption that the car is an Olds 88, I looked up the tire dimensions, which came up as P205/70R15. Doing the math from here:

Try the original source image:

"The young blonde lass on the right... I think I'm in love."

Ah yes, the SSI Shredder. What a hideously unpleasant, yet strangely mesmerizing way for a car to die.

Heh, thank you! It's actually a she (her name is Russia) and she's an 8-year-old Siberian Husky.

Unfortunately, comment promotion happens automatically whenever a starred commenter replies to a post. That's why as much as I wanted to apply a #banhammer comment to such an idiotic question, I didn't reply.

Oops, one more question I forgot:

What with the ST finally making it to the US (and *pretty please, cross fingers*) perhaps the RS being considered in the future, it would certainly seem that Ford is trying to break out of the "only certain models for certain countries" and push towards more of a global platform. Question: other than the obvious…

Have another beer of atonement.

You got it.

If that happens I will disown Mazda. :(

Exactly Xander, exactly.

From her "I worked in a strip-club post"...

Man, the suspense of watching those front wheels hanging off the stern of the boat, waiting for it to thump down to earth...

"The billionaire’s car boasted racing stripes and scissor doors."

I wonder which lucky sod was given the um, enviable task of arranging all those cars around her.

Common-Sense Post Of The Day (yes, I'm very late in reading it, sorry.)