this had me laughing. great story.

I got to take part in one, and it was epic. It also solidified in my mind a gearhead stereotype...but I'll get to that later.

Often.

This reminds me of anytime you drive long distances at night and you follow someone/they follow you and you form some sort of bond. I mean you pass people together, you go through construction together, avoid speed traps together, and you're sad when they go.

I have never had this happen IRL, but in The Crew, I was playing the Beta

In the early days (2012), FR-S/BRZ/GT86 owners were all early adopters and car geeks. Lots of headlight flashing, throttle blips and waves.

I would often use the pop-up headlights on my Prelude to "wave" at people or to signal for pedestrians to cross at night. It got to where neighborhood kids would imitate the motion of the headlights with their hands to wave back.

Anyone who's visited or driven in Italy can tell you that drivers use their horns to "talk" all the time...it's definitely not the aggressive "shouting" that it is here in the States.

Huge hailstones for sure.

If you have enough $, they'll let you drive it as much as you want. Or you could just give approximately 0 shits and do it.

"You're just flat wrong on this one, son."

if you can, drive one everyday for a week. It's a relatively affordable super car that's actually a near perfect balance of comfort and performance. You don't see them as often as porsche and they look exotic.

I don't think that they are that unreliable, but any repair on what is essentially a supercar will quickly offset your warranty.

But since you probably won't reach 125,000 miles in five years, consider the 75,000-mile plan: it's just $2,989.

I remember BF Goodrich Scorchers incorporated colored treads so you can leave you mark behind on a burnout. They should have marketed that tire to drifters, but I think drifting was an underground thing stateside in the late 90s.

Meh, they're both burning dead dinosaurs so it's all the same ;-)

Are you talking about the roof scoop? Driver cooling. Pretty common on race cars.

Wow 2006 seems like such a long time ago based on how shitty the video quality is.

You guys should make this a QOTD! Would be awesome to see what's revealed.

I'd love to see more of this kind of secret fun in cars. The reinforcing plastic looks like a web, damn right it needs a spider. Good work, Volvo.