nah, just around the neighborhood. The truck would make a left at about where our house was, and we’d grab on to the back for a couple of blocks till the corner store.

Oh man. Back when I was a little kid, we’d do this on the back of the truck that delivered Coca-Cola to the corner store.

An Altima! Ha! When my FR-S got totaled I had to drive a SENTRA.

They have to keep the rectangular rear end to reassure the AARP brigade that, yes, this is the same Cadillac that made your Fleetwood Brougham.

Never mind that extended protective netting has been the rule for years in Japan, where fans tend to be even more involved than American fans tend to be. In fact, I think in some sections some teams had also been giving out batting helmets to protect patrons.

TL;DR for baseball fans: in cricket, spitballs are OK, but emery balls are not. Australia got caught trying emery balls. Spitballs, though, still OK.

The effect has been pretty much blunted in major league baseball by the sheer number of new balls put into play during the course of a game. A ball isn’t really in play long enough to exhibit the sorts of changes we’d see in a cricket ball over 40-50 overs (that’s a sub-division of a cricket game: one “over” is when…

On a serious note, as a baseball fan, cricket’s attitude towards ball-tampering has always mystified me.

> has beaten England bloody in the Ashes

Cadillac has pretensions of being a premium badge. It has, however, focused its efforts entirely at serving the domestic market. If you really want to be taken seriously by rich buyers, you need to challenge your rivals where they live. That means getting serious about international visibility and cracking the premium…

Time for Cadillac to build a Bentley Continental competitor. A real GT. BONUS: you can homologate it for GTLM racing and have Cadillacs in multiple endurance-racing classes.

If I were in the market for a big sedan, I would want a CT6 with this engine.

The tooling isn’t the issue. The issue is homologating it for emissions, which is something a thinly-capitalized shed of English motor-elves really can’t do.

the 5.2 Aluminator is a Coyote with the 5.2 heads, but not the flat-plane crank of the Voodoo.

Common/Boring are not a bad thing as far as reliability and serviceability are concerned—especially on a make of car that will either be user-maintained or maintained by specialists.

Here’s the thing: I’m actually extremely pro-cop. We are all better off when I can trust that the guy in the cruiser is a Good Guy.

As a Ford guy, I would like nothing more than a proliferation of Voodoo motors. But Ford has already said that it intends to keep the flat-plane Voodoo as a GT350-exclusive motor. They won’t sell it as a crate motor.

Speeding is also against the law, and you’d pitch a goddamn fit if an LEO pulled you over every time you did half a mile over the legal limit. Especially in traffic situations, police have broad discretion about what gets enforced, when, and against whom.

HEY MORGAN!

We live in a world where a cop who gets caught on video being friendly is disciplined while others that get caught on video actually murdering people are unpunished.