Sadly, he’s a q-tip in a suit who just wants to be liked (and of course I voted for him in the general election; I am not insane).

Vouchers are a complicated solution, costly in its own right to administer. How do we decide who gets a voucher? Why no benefit to people who don’t drive, since higher gas prices have knock-on effects on pricing across the board? It also maintains our dependence on cars, giving no impetus to improve infrastructure or…

I would imagine that the 25 million km in the testing program are somewhat tougher than regular driving - if twice as tough, then it would equate 20 miles per day. So no worries.

Well, lord knows those 20s don’t last very well in American urban conditions. Consider your point proven.

You might be right - I also have two small children and a wife who works on weekends, so my stance on F1 today may also be a form of defense mechanism.

I already knew the GT-R had jumped the shark, but this confirms it. You, dear Skyline owners, are going to be the 2040 equivalent of a boomer with a time out doll (hopefully this will get the price of an R32 to where I can afford it).

MY holy grail, not A holy grail. The fact that OP didn’t know what the holes were there for illustrates the point (I don’t know how old they are).

Sure, and it’s one of my holy grails. I intend to drive all the way to Saratoga in April just to look at one. But it’s still in no way an iconic design of the type that one would usually see revived (Countach, T-bird, Beetle, that kind of thing).

1st Gear: I know a number of Vietnamese who chose to migrate to South Carolina specifically because of the similar climate (and catfish). Obviously, North Carolina must be much colder, though, judging by the name of the state.

My job moved from Harlem to Midtown, which means I no longer have to drive to work but can take the LIRR instead. Yay! The gas cost, however, is of minor importance compared to the expense of constant suspension repairs from driving through the crater fields NYC roads.

Here in NYC there was (is?) an F1-watching club which would take over an entire bar for the events. Sadly, F1 is devoid of interest for me nowadays so I haven’t seen a race in probably a decade.

Speed holes being an homage to the old EB110SS. Funny to celebrate a car that was never particularly successful to begin with.

A friend of mine had a Turbo MR2 back in the late 1990s. It was beautiful (BRG, beige leather) but it was absolutely no fun to drive. Not tossable, crap visibility, and very capable of racking up huge speeding tickets with no excitement whatsoever. I had a Chevrolet Turbo Sprint, and later a Peugeot 505 Turbo S, and…

The first time I ever went up in a boom truck, the engine stalled while we were 14 stories above Broadway. We were stuck up there for nearly an hour, as the ground operator spoke no English and giving him directions in how to manually get us down proved complicated. What had happened was that the unit was a rental,…

Cool! I see pictures of this in India all of the time, and still on (Ashok) Leylands.

“Jesus is my airbag” (seen on an old Nissan Micra in Finland)

I wrote much of the BTV/AUV (Basic Transport Vehicle, Asian Utility Vehicle) content on Wikipedia and I am happy to see someone reads it! This is super cool, but I would prefer one of the GM versions with their weird crocodile nose. Should be worth it to anyone with a sense of history.

Pre-empting all the whiners: Yes, this is automobile news. 

WTH is a Fowler road engine? I hope it’s something like a Scammell Scarab, the finest thing to have emerged from Britain outside of the Bristol works.

Again, Stalinism is not Communism any more than whatever China is doing is Communism.