Ah, yep. I should have known; an especially inebriated driver left the front of her Taurus in my yard last year.

I thought you ‘shopped a bus on top of an early Sebring at first glance. 

This got me wondering: are there any limo coupes? (Proper usage of “coupe” here.) I’d dig a 242, lengthened a meter or two.

Holy hell, that’s good looking. If I were in the market for a European concept car, I’d have a hard time choosing between this and the Concept Estate. Both are rolling master classes of surfacing and proportions.

I’m always fascinated with how the moon got its name. Colin Chapman’s future son-in-law, Andrew Willson, was a NASA (technically, NACA) employee in the late 1950s. After becoming a member of the Chapman family and taking a liking to Colin’s latest sports car, he ascended the ranks within NASA. He became close to…

You laugh, but I’ve actually drafted floorplans of a dream home/garage to showcase my (not-yet-acquired) Cygnet.

Four cars, one bike, and zero vehicles over 200 hp. It’s funny, though; I’m perfectly content with my <200 hp sports cars, but I would upgrade my 40 hp “sport” bike for a Panigale V4 (215 hp) in a heartbeat. 500 hp SUVs seem underpowered when you’re familiar with super bikes.

Lately, there’s been a push to “publish” preprints online (i.e., non-peer reviewed data and/or papers) with the idea that a public peer review process will better sort out good/bad science prior to publication in an academic journal. Results have been mixed, as far as I can tell, and not all fields have adopted this…

Yep. I’m not in a science in which misrepresentation of research may have serious externalities, but I see the same thing in my field every day. So there are two issues with “innovations” or “incredible discoveries” such as these: the tendency for journalists to oversimplify or misrepresent results, and the incentive s…

Halloween on wheels. Excellent and fitting color combo.

I don’t knock people for only taking their fun cars out on perfect days and perfect roads. Before I bought the car, I thought I’d be happy with some weekend trips and the occasional track day, which is why I was struck by how much I wanted to drive the Elise all the time. I don’t really know why the Lotus has that…

True. I picked a bad example. But I regularly drove from suburbs to downtown Chicago for a couple years, which involved all the usual Chicago commute problems: street-parking, rush hour traffic, stupid weather, ‘eccentric’ city drivers, etc. Rarely did I wish I was in a more practical car, and road salt was the only…

Au contraire, there’s nothing like commuting home at midnight in an Elise, the road all to yourself. I’d regularly sacrifice an hour of sleep after a long shift because driving the anti-Camry is that much fun. Something about the seating position, steering weight, and garbage NVH (esp. above 60 mph) makes every trip…

Identical story. I had crippling buyer’s remorse between handing over the money and receiving the car (who buys a Lotus sight-unseen, from several states away, without ever having sat in one?), but that was quickly forgotten after the first spirited drive*.

Glickenhaus’s SCG 003, but not sure which configuration they’re in (race, track, or street).

Volvo 144

I’m not one to defend indefensible LEO actions, but let’s not all jump on the “woulda been dead in the U.S.” bandwagon. American (and other) officers routinely deal with these sorts of situations — including those with armed suspects — and apprehend the subject without shots fired. Proper statistics are your friends.…

By George, that’s Bolingbrook! I’ll have to park my little car next to yours at the next event. It’s always nice being able to see greenhouse rather than door panel when next to other cars

*Miura

What kind of car dealer unveils cars in a classroom/theater with blackboards behind the audience? This is why I want to visit Abu Dhabi.