If it works, rip it off. Pretty much the gaming industry's credo these days.

It really depends on the series. Some are more calibrated towards no-holds-barred engineering challenges (Can-AM, group B) though these are far and few between these days because of the massive costs involved. Most series are more focused these days on seeing competition between "equal" cars and drivers, may the best…

Thank you. Came here to say this. Apparently Gizmodo thinks that firearms training should become less accessible and more expensive while absolutely nothing happens to actual gun laws. What a fantastic way to make everyone safer.

Like a lot of car styling trends it goes back to the Japanese. Hipari is the Japanese word for it. Basically, drifters do it because thinner tires are cheaper, and more widely available than properly sized rubber. Drifters (especially beginners) often get their drifting tires from cheap used tire places, or even pick…

I predict that in a few months we'll get a story reminiscent of the old Bangle 7-series debacle. "Well, we left the space heater on too long around the clay model and nobody checked it before we sent it out to production the next day. Haha, funny how that works, huh?"

The Initial D tax is alive and well. So CP.

Yeah, this. It only ruins the show for people who want it ruined for them. Nothing of value is lost.

That's really purdy. It's like a new Volvo P1800ES - a slow sport coupe/wagon.

Kind of a neat old fox body, but 9,500 is E36 M3 territory.

My personal favorite Santa/ car picture. Merry Christmas Jalops!

Pretty sure that's a 5-series, dude.

The saab 900 turbo. It's a turbo! But it's FWD. It's got rally heritage! But it handles like crap. It's a hatchback! That is unreliable and quirky. Like most Saabs, it is ambitious - but rubbish. And that's why people love it.

Thanks! The photo is pretty flattering. In reality it's pretty rough - it has some surface rust in spots and the wheels need a once over with a wire brush. Still wouldn't trade it for anything. :)

The commercial in question.

Volvo used to run bitchin’ commercials for the 240 Turbo. They depict the brickish cars hooning about, their Scandinavian drivers ensconced in a seemingly orgasmic mixture of exclusive luxury and powerful, turbocharged acceleration. One ad heralds the turbo 240 as the return of the muscle car, and the rad peg-leg…

Guns are already pretty expensive. Save up for the course, get certified for a year of no-hassle gun purchases, and in that 12 months if you can't scratch together enough money to buy the gun you want, then you probably couldn't afford the gun in the first place.

"I wonder how many sci-fi twists I would have to make, before I could create a game about some white midwestern townsfolk shooting hordes of samoli immigrants." They make this game. It's called "Call of Duty".

Yeah man, it's awful when fun cars are used for having fun. What a bummer.

Maybe in a BRZ, but Orido stuffed a Toyota V8 in one before the car was even available here.

The problem is that in AC3 there are only two or three audio tracks for a given NPC. So a group of children may emit the same weird mixture of non-verbal hoots and laughs two or three times, separated by a different group of hoots and laughs. And in a few instances NPC dialogue loops repeatedly, such as in the…