While I definitely see those Beetle hood kits, the effect to me is more PT Cruiser … those aren’t considered retro cool yet by people too young to remember that they sucked, are they? I imagine it’s a matter of time, but I’m not ready for that.

My favorite part is the creative workarounds—a cheat against the spirit of the rules, though not strictly a violation of them. Brawn’s eponymous team’s championship largely came from that. I guess they can still misdirect the press or just bore them with tech-speak. It’s not like most people would even know what it…

I don’t know where you are, but it’s exactly the same north of Boston. Is there a “cool” mom FB group they go to find out what’s in or out for school pickups?

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You can’t set a db limit outside a specially built site and have it mean anything. What equipment, when was it calibrated, what ambient sound level, what ambient temp and humidity, what angle, what distance? Even if the typical cop wasn’t stupid and this was as simple as setting up equipment with a tape measure, that…

Ferrari has been diluting their brand for years with what they license it to. At least an SUV is a vehicle. Most of what these high end products are really about is showing off wealth, anyway, and an SUV means you can bring more friends or “friends” out to cruise the nightclubs or promenade.

If the often challenging aesthetics of some of their cars, terrible attitude toward customer ownership while selling their brand out to all kinds of crap, and ubiquity in rich areas hasn’t apparently cost them any customers, I don’t see why selling an SUV would.

I don’t know anything about these racers, so maybe it’s pretty normal, but that seems like a pretty weak power to weight ratio.

The switches in my ST sound like the opposite of GM where there’s a detent for auto up or down, but it usually just moves until I release the switch unless I hit the detent in a very particular way I’ve only ever managed to get by chance.

I wish I had some of mine on video, but definitely not for outside distribution!

I don’t know, but I’m going to look when I get home as that sounds like someone whose work I could enjoy.

The internet could have been the new Library of Alexandria, but instead they created social media and each new fad iteration finds a way to be worse than the last by building up a new, ever-dumber legion of empty, narcissistic morons. It’s like how taking out one brutal crime boss leaves a vacuum to eventually be…

I’ve had to borrow my BiL’s ATS and, with 2 mandated astronaut ejection seats in the back seat for my little nieces, I couldn’t see shit under 6' tall out of the back. So, it’s not just the overly tall vehicles, it’s anything with obscuring cargo that it’s helpful for and I’m also happy to not have to wait as goddamn…

The bottom end cars were good for someone expecting to die before it would be old enough to have problems. For everyone else, they’re often poorer value for money than just one step up in class where you could usually get usefully more space, power, better build quality, less NVH, better reliability, resale, and safety…

I didn’t get that, either. Why is it a problem that a company that employs creative talent can protect their designs from some POS company employing talentless thieves that makes junk that looks like the other company’s product? Design your own shit! Quality is optional. This is more a general comment for potential…

I’ve been to so many high end shows and concours that there’s little I haven’t seen and would put the 2000GT right up there with anything else of its era. I think because it was Japanese, it was denigrated as being an E-Type copy for decades, which is absurd as it looks no more like an E-Type than any other sports car…

I lost a mint Alfa Romeo Montreal and Maserati Khamsin (euro bumpers) to bathroom renovations and buying the house, respectively. Both are much higher in value now, but less than I made off the house, so I guess it worked out, but certainly less satisfyingly so.

That little loser was really tempting fate, there. If someone hit him back, his neck would probably break.

That’s cool!

I never had that many problems with my Japanese cars, but parts life was generally shorter, petty annoyances were somewhat frequent and accepted as normal, rust was a constant battle concluding with an inevitable loss, and my nose was always in a hyper vigilant mode (my hatred for Jeeps probably started from often…