Ahem, "Carpocalypse" tag please.

Jimmy Pribble on the floor here with the fight analysis: earlier this week, we saw the champion Volvo wagon roll its competitor onto its back and pin it, while the new Lambo contender stays low and moves fast, disabling its heavier challenger by lifting its body in the air and pinning its shoulders to the ground. This…

Holy Manifestopnik!

I wrote a dissertation-length diatribe the other day explaining why you shouldn't spend $10,000 on an Audi Quattro...a truly great car. And yet, we are presented with...this...this...blob of bile for the same price and some of you are anguishing over your decision? ("Well, it does have red horns. I could call it my…

A Lotus-badged Isuzu is better than an Isuzu-badged Lotus.

Is this Part 1 of a multi-part article? Why so long? Here, like this:

STEREOTYPE BUSTER:

@skaycøg: Monorail Cat!

@snap_understeer_ftw: Wow, thanks! P.S. I love your handle. Oh dear, that doesn't sound so good out loud, does it?

Let's clear-up some things.

@Hopman: Why do that, when you can have the factory cloth? Enjoy!

@Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Um, Hustler cartoonists can't make it working just once a month you know.

Yeah, that seat upholstery would have made that interior suitable for a Helmut Newton pictorial with era-correct Charlotte Rampling methinks.

I have shopped these for my next daily driver and have seen them go for $16K. So, crack pipe.

Training wheels. LOL.

We must watch the revisionist history. In certain circles, like the steakhouse in Texas where I valeted in the 80's, the Biarritz would command the premium spots up front, shared with the likes of an odd XJS, or maybe a big Merc.

I had never heard of these until one of them rolled-up on me while I was on the freeway and indicated that they wanted a spontaneous road test of our vehicles. Well, I don't participate in that sort of thing, so I took off and tried to lose them. They were stuck to my bumper for awhile before the Audi showed its…

Pimp My...Self?