“Samir! You’re breaking the car!”

And this is why it’s a bad idea to remake The Italian Job.

Some collectors pay a fortune for misprinted stamps or mis-struck coins - the idea is that they’re rarer, and maybe they also have more of a story.

The old Metcalf family Ford Country Squire (circa 1988) station wagon had not only the front seat lighter and ash tray but a lighter and ash tray in BOTH rear door armrests. Great for the family because the kids don’t have to fight over lighters!

Back in 2017 I took this photo at the Boston auto show...

Set the Xerox machine to Enlarge by 30%.

Anyone who’s childhood bedroom wall featured a poster of this:

Marvin Heemeyer is dead, but his spirit lives on.

Torch is one of the best writers on Jalopnik. There is good reason to be skeptical. His point is that calling a system “full self-driving” when it isn’t actually fully self driving is dangerous. It’s an advance drivers aid. Really advance. Torch didn’t dispute that. Kudos to Tesla and what they’ve achieved. Hoorah! It…

Theres not enough middle ground colors. You either have boring greyscale colors or colors like “punch you in the groin orange" or "kick you in the head green".

I don’t know what you’re talking about

10 years ago a GMC Vandura was sent to auction by a charitable for a crime they didn’t commit. This van promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the winning buyer, it survives a #vanlife of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if…

Put a big red bow on it and put it in my driveway Christmas Day. I don’t need to care what the APER is with this price. Sure, with those miles some things will need to be refreshed but it looks nice and the refreshed parts don’t need to be done all at once.... Nice Price for me.

I’m bad at parking.

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I got it lifted just for highway driving.

Call me crazy, but how about if you put an axle with two car sized wheels under that platform, then added some way to attach it to the back of the vehicle. Then you could ride the bike on/off the platform and the bed of the truck could still be used to load other stuff. Not sure if the idea will catch on, but...

Mitsubishi’s December to Remember sales event.

Thanks this would be a rather appalling gift.

Also noted: shop safety sandals.

The IIHS should also add vehicles to this list which do not have an automated headlights on feature. Following a car with no tail-lights is troubling, especially on unlit roadways. Cannot count how many times I’ve driven behind someone who thinks their headlights are on because the DRL’s are illuminating the road…

Neutral: My first interaction will be me, getting more and more frustrated at the slow, erratic driving of a delivery van to the point where I start shouting and honking angrily. It is only after I finally pass the inconsiderate asshole will I discover it was driverless. The slow realization that I was the real…