Bingo! There’s definitely gotta be some comedy in the film involving the car’s “incredibly practical” ability to pull a James May limousine routine and drive in both directions.

Scary helicopter pumpkin head of death!

LoL, “suitability of drunks”?

+1, The suitability of drunks behind the wheel is truly staggering. There’s a reason for the existence of the cliche where a drunk driver obliterates a car full of sober passengers and escapes relatively unharmed.

They have no way of knowing if you are running non-standard fluid. If your transmission died they could totally blame you for the fluid even if it was the factory fill. Just depends on if the dealer is a cock or not. That’s why I said go to an independent if you have a shop do the trans fluid. There won’t be a record…

“At that time I was still in my mark 4 GTI.”

I did some serious car-shopping with my brother a couple years ago. He was looking for something with RWD, a manual trans, and decent power. Didn’t give a shit what badge, just wanted the most fun for the least money while keeping enough refinement/reliability for daily driving duties. He was happy to spend up to $20K…

Ugh, this trend of putting quad tail pipes on single-turbo cars needs to die. Who did this first? Was it Subaru? Definitely remember the STI going to this silly setup a long time ago.

So, so wrong. GM put their fantastic 2.0 turbo ecotech engine into a way more awesome, wagon-tastic platform. The correct answer to this entry is the Chevy HHR SS:

Jesus Christ No! The driveline in this thing was every bit as bad as the AWD Diamond Star Motors cars of the same era. If you are on anything resembling a budget then you want nothing to do with these early 90’s turbo AWD hatchbacks. Save yourself enourmous heartache and go for the turbo FWD versions of these cars…

“How does a modded GTR work on an autocross track?”

Oh, I know. I mean they have virtually no emissions requirements at all, at least compared to cars. I understand that it isn’t tough from a regulatory standpoint. I’m just amazed that, like, it is socially tolerated. Like that it was ever even allowed in the first place.

Sounds like your local 328 Autocross guy is just a really good driver. If he hopped out of his car and into one of those M3s I bet he could lay down even faster times. There’s a dude in my local SCCA who drives a naturally aspirated Pontiac Solstice with sticky tires, mild suspension tuning, an exhaust swap, and no…

Wow. Absolutely amazing that this is even allowed. It’s the bike equivalent of buying a road-legal Formula 1 car.

+1: Great cars, but highway cruisers they are not.

“Is there a Secretariat in the human race?”

Why does this look like a Maserati?

This, right here, is why Jalopnik will always be great, no matter how much the editors, Gawker Media, or Nick Denton himself might try to fuck it up.

I mean, Tom named his son fucking Chet. Has there ever been an individual named Chet who wasn’t referred to by every single person ever to have met them as: “Fucking Chet”?

I think you’ll find that the only people regularly able to build a large business empire from scratch are psychopaths. Only psychopaths are capable of disregarding the sanctity of human life consistently enough to create a wildly successful business from nothing. Psychopaths are much, much better at using people as…