In what reality is that bus "white?" 

I’ve never been much of a football fan and I always thought John Madden was a bit loud and brash for my taste but I’ve lived the past 8 years in the same town he lived in and I have heard nothing but good things about the man. He was a great advocate for our town and a staunch promoter of local business. Plus, he was l…

Nah, it uses any apple device to report the location. So if he had parked at home and the neighbor walked over to say hello and had an iPhone in his pocket it would report the location. Or the mail carrier or UPS driver walks by with an iPhone...

Actually fines in New Zealand are sheep.

It won’t be too much as it will be in NZ$. That is even lower than the AUD$ which is known as the Pacific Peso.

The accumulated fines are epic!

This would explain why Minicraft offered a 1/144 scale model of this plane!

OK, but the crucial question is: was the flight overlaid on a map of the world, with a read line indicating the direction of its flight... and occasionally a man sleeping in a fedora?

Did they return them?

I’ll put my order in for this.

It’ll steal your identity then kill you with some kind of poison on the steering wheel.

Absolutely wild.  I vaguely remember this being mentioned in a few car magazines at the time.  In Russia the final Okas got Chinese built copies of Toyota 1.1L(?) liquid cooled three cylinder engines and some nasty looking interior/exterior updates.  The OG cars are actually pretty well designed in the sense of a…

Jalopnik will never accept that logic.

It’s been pretty great for the five years or so I have owned it. Utterly basic ‘95 Discovery I with no sunroofs and a 5spd. It’s as complicated as a hammer. Tows the boat, hauls the trash, goes up what is laughingly called the “road” to our family camp in western Maine, deals with salt so my BMW doesn’t have to on the…

I would expect it to be. Having lived in Eastern Europe I have some experience with Russian vehicles. Crude, terribly put together, but they do tend to be pretty reliable - and usually easy to fix when the do break. Hopefully the modern crap ladled on it doesn’t bring down the simple mechanicals.

my deposit is ready for this one:

Sourcing parts sounds like fun. But hey, nothing like learning to read Cyrillic by necessity!

Bremach claims to already have a dealer network of some sort. 

That’s the point. We Jalops don’t like “modern vehicles” we want