@ZZZYZZZ: YES! I forgot all about this car. What a gem...an absurd, absurd gem.

I know, Ben. Is America truly too dumb to understand the zipper concept is for the greater good?

@brendolonius: I do a similar...instead of pulling all the way out into the closing lane I just pull half way. The extra few seconds of confusion seems to cool tempers.

@beefmalone: Whoops! Here ya go...

@mattattaxx: Eh, perhaps if it was filthy, rusty, with a broken exhaust manifold and reaking of butts—IMHO.

GTI? Punk? Not. Besides, that's either an early, round-headlighted, pre-close-ratio 5spd, pre-90HP 1.8l GTI or it's actually a gen-1 Sirocco...The gen-1 Sirocco could almost pass for punk.

@Brian DuBois: Bah, having lived in colder climates for the first seventeen years of my driving life where driving conditions can be truly treacherous (in the winter that is) and seven years here in SoCal, I still struggle to imagine how a specially-trained driver can get into such a twist (literally). Sounds like…

That is in fact a wormhole. Joe B. says otherwise only because he got sucked into it, only to re-emerge yesterday, having witnessed a horrific alternate universe in which thousands of drivers of an otherwise reputable, dependable and trustworthy Japanese automobile, through actions of driver incompetence and general…

I'm glad the officer was spared, but how on earth does a trained professional do this to a full-size car, pursuing someone on foot, in Southern California in the sumemertime? Don't police receive anti-idiocy driving lessons or something? How about driving lessons in general? Cripes.

@Psiu! Puxa!: Your 244 is the coolest car I have ever seen!: Three cheers for "not guilty for reason of of blandity!"

God, that sound is black magic.

Verbodden!

Poppycosh!

I've worked out a technique where, whenever possible, I create a "false rabbit" when passing known or suddenly-spotted speed traps at potentially (or positively) ticketable speeds.

AAAAAHA,HA,HA,HA,HA,HA,HA!!!!!

@powermatic: Europe? So much for the "east coast heat wave."

Green handle on the gas pump...Isn't that diesel?

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