Wait, the National Guard that sponsored racing teams was the actual National Guard that... huh guards the nation? I always thought it was some kind of gun shop like GTA's Ammunation. In fact, until now I assumed it was the inspiration for Ammunation. How weird is it that the army sponsors anything at all?

That's still pretty cool. Could make for a decent sleeper back then, in that color, in that condition, without any emblems. Shiny pristine cars aren't as much my thing as the dirty beaten ones :p

Sometimes there's a world of difference between a car's regular versions and its hottest version. My car is a case in point. The first 1.6 models brought to Brazil lacked power, gadgets and caught fire on a regular basis due to a defect on the power steering mechanism, while the Sedicivalvoles had almost twice the…

I'm not sure if it'll make it into Jalopnik's dream garage or not, but it's already in mine.

Just for the record, that's (probably) not a speed camera, but a traffic camera, as the article correctly states. Some folks seem to have the two confused.

I had a small knock from the top of my engine, maybe carbon build up. The mechanic, instead of treating with chemicals(protocol), decided that it would be easier to run my car in first gear for 5 miles at redline.

Rule #(G)34 of Cars: If it exists, there is a Nismo version of it?

My hometown in Brazil has the same system, but if your car is caught without a timestamp, the officer first drops a note giving you thirty minutes to get one, then comes back thirty minutes later to see if you either bought a stamp or moved the car. If you haven't he switches the warning for a ticket, and if you have,…

Same here in Brazil. Highway patrols aside, traffic cops of any kind are not police and can't do much besides issuing tickets and calling the real police.

Wow. That's almost as bad as the time I got ticketed for an illegal left I didn't make because my car was too loud (stock exhaust), lowered (sits 3cm higher than stock) and "smoking" (AKA condensation in a cold day). The truth is that cop was an asshole trying to fill his quota.

That 72 Malibu though...

Cops in Brazil don't usually stop you for a talking to, but when they do, they're guaranteed to be assholes. A while ago, I was stopped because, according to the officer, my car was too loud (stock exhaust), too low (3 cm higher than stock) and spewing smoke (it wasn't). He then tried to get me to hand over the car…

Not to be an offensive asshole, but the way some of you americans obsess over legal/illegal versus common sense, sometimes as an excuse not to do something, is really creepy.

Wow, what an asshole... I never got ticketed while overtaking, but it's far too common where I live for cops to sit at the end of overtaking spots to catch drivers while they're passing a slower truck or bus. This is a real problem here because all the roads in my area are very narrow and very twisty, so overtaking…

I didn't watch the whole video, but other than the two technicians acting like assholes and doing their "repairs" on what seemed to be public roads, the video didn't seem that aggravating.

I'll be honest, that didn't seem so bad... First thing I do when the injection warning light comes on in my car is either flash the ECU or, more often, bounce it off the rev limiter a couple times. Works like a charm.

You don't "have to go" faster to pass, but why the hell would you pass a slow vehicle at a lower rate of speed? Just to linger at the opposite lane of a narrow, twisty road for a longer time? No thanks.

With this kind of traffic, you'd expect that, if you ever have your car jacked in the middle of the night, you'll find it stuck in traffic about 100 feet away by the morning.

How does one get nailed while overtaking? What, they expect you to just sit there, on the opposite lane, risking a head on collision just to avoid going over the limit? Overtakes are the exact situations where more speed is actually safer, the less you linger in the opposite lane, the better.