So much yes.

I’m a muscle car guy, but the boomer crowd can just go and die off with their frame off restoration garage queens. If anyone’s ruining car culture, it’s them and their inability to enjoy something without trying to turn a profit.

Lots and lots of people don’t know what car culture is... it’s easy to confuse it with commuter culture, or even ostentation culture, as in, you’re not an enthusiast unless you drive something priced in the 6 figure range. That’s why it seems to be “dying”, but then you pick a colleague, one you’ve never talked about…

You know, I have colleagues, both male and female who discuss other colleagues openly, even when said colleagues are nearby, sometimes with said colleagues taking part in the conversation. No one cares as long as everyone gets along.

Back in the late 80’s/early 90’s, Brazil was severely rationing resources, so gas stations worked some very awkward hours. From 3 to 6 pm on weekdays and that was it, if I remember correctly. Your week wasn’t complete until you had to either syphon gas out of a good samaritan’s cars car, or walk to a nearby drugstore…

Man, living in the US is easy... I never had such a mishap ever, because if I’d had, I’d have been fucked. Brazil has no AAA, no roadside assistance, no automotive rescue on most of the country, no big auto parts chain stores, no borrowing or renting tools at shops, no next day parts delivery, no nothing. If something…

As a brazilian, I just have to ask; is there anything keeping that Uber driver you just flagged from showing up in a POS Chevette, pulling a gun on you and making off with what little money you have? Taxi drivers will do that to you here, and they’re supposedly government regulated

Dude's Parkouring a bike, and a large one at that...

Doesn't everybody take baths at night before sleep...?

Putting my Tipo’s engine back together, learning as I went. It was the first major work I’d ever done to any car ever, I was 16, and had only a bunch of prints of italian manuals to guide me on disassembling and reassembling what is actually a pretty complex engine installed into an unbelievably cramped engine bay. It…

Not to bash or defend the argument of buying american (I’m not even american) or anything, but I sometimes wonder what people do that their cars are so unreliable. My family’s been trading Chevrolet for Chevrolet since the early 70’s and I don’t recall we ever ending up with a lemon or a car that spent a significant…

I’m going to establish a policy of punching everyone who asks me that, twice if a “holier than thou” tone is used.

I’m not sure I’d put them right there in second, at least not alone, but yeah, they’re a pretty big deal.

Wait a second... Ford is coming up with a Performance oriented lineup? And they’re crowning it with a GT? Are we back in 1965?

1995 Tipo Sedicivalvole. It’s a bit newer, and it has the spacious hatchback body going for it, but it’s old enough that plastics and rubbers start drying up and breaking off, and it’s probably got the exact same engine as your spider, 2.0l twin cam. I’ve had to rebuild it once already, and, even in 2006, it was more…

I guess I could say my First is also my Fourth. For starters, it’s a Fiat, and it doesn’t always work. Secondly, it’s imported from Italy, so not a lot of people will work on it. I learned to fix it because I needed it. Third, I don’t *need* it. I need a car, but I could probably afford to trade it in for a new,…

I did that once, fixing it at home after refusing a quota. I don’t think shops use the not legally allowed to leave argument in Brazil, so these guys did something a little more creative; They quoted me, immediately bought the parts, then sent the invoice in for approval. When I didn’t like what they were asking, as…

Haha, very true. Kinja won't let me post pictures, but a quick google search should show the Fusca badging used on the new Beetles, as well as the timelines VW posted around the webs linking it to the old one.

Great video, I think you nailed it on the head... By the time the M3 came out, electronics just weren’t developed enough to take up the mechanical tasks of accelerating, steering, braking, etc, but mechanical development was at its pinnacle. That’s what gives the M3 such a mechanical presence, and that’s about as…

Yup, but I was talking specifically about Brazil. While it may be more or less officially known as Carocha in Portugal and elsewhere, down here, Besouro is very little used, and mostly as a nickname, while Fusca was officially adopted by VW way back then. Even the new one is called Fusca, with a neat little badge on…