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I love fast cars. Just sold our ‘90 Corvette w/ 6 speed + a Borla exhaust and now there’s an Abarth in its place. The Abarth rumbles, but it doesn’t make the g*ddamned stucco fall off my walls when started.

Let’s install air raid sirens on our cars and drive around at 3am. You know, for the lulz.

Anyone got Beef Supreme’s home address? I hear he likes der noiz when sleeping.

It’s easy to dismiss valid criticism when you’re not the one falling out of bed at 5:30am every day because your neighbor is overcompensating for being hung like a cranberry.

It looks great, no doubt, but:

People restore the most incredibly mundane and banal cars for sentimental reasons. It’s shocking that Forrest is unaware that people have sentiments.

Our ‘90 which we recently sold to a 25 year old guy crushing the cliches about Corvettes and Boomers in white sneakers. Ours too was a 6-speed: a sublime transmission. I wouldn’t fret about a couple upholstery tears or a wonky center console, these are easily remedied on eBay or LKQ, trust me. 

The paint job on that rad Z600 actually made me LOL, somehow it works for me.

I regret letting our ‘90 Corvette convertible go last year, its 6-speed manual was a joy even though the torque of the LT1 usually meant a shift wasn’t necessary. Don’t break the bank and obligate yourself for a decade of depreciating financial liability when you could get a modern classic like this.

We’ve been loving ours since 2013, it’s absolutely a future classic just like the Honda CRX is today.

This was straight-up Attempted Murder.
Prosecute him accordingly.

So Jalopnik stoops to ‘Whataboutism’ now? Yes, unlicensed dirt bikes and ATV blasting down sidewalks are definitely a problem, but you can’t pretend it doesn’t merit enforcement because there are other problems to contend with.

I’m pretty sure his enforcement guys can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Back when they debuted I wanted to interrogate the buyers WHO PUT YOU UP TO THIS? WHY WOULD BUY THIS?

Honda invited us Gen1 owners to the big Gen2 reveal and I couldn’t make it. When I read the first reviews of them I was in disbelief and quite relieved I hadn’t road tripped to California to witness that sadness

The second gen Insight was an egregious example of phoning one in. It was a 10% smaller Prius with 10% less efficiency and initially with NiMh chemistry batteries. I owned three 1st gen Insights, one with a 220hhp K20a swap and can attest that after the monumentally great engineering of the first one, the second was

I have a tendency to strafe interstate on-ramps and off-ramps as it’s one of few chances to mostly “safely” explore the realm of lateral G. I wonder if he was doing the same and was clipping the apex only to discover a woman there.

All the way to Düsseldorf, Germany my friend.

There are some cars that took years to grow on me like the Fisker Karma, the Z3 ‘clown shoe’, the Honda Element. But this child’s crayon drawing on a wall of a truck is - and will always be - nauseating.

As the former owner of a Datsun 240Z and the current owner of a Triumph TR6 I can definitively say it’s the beauty of matched cylinders smoothly counterbalancing each other in the combustion cycle making a lovely turbine-like exhaust note. Other than packaging efficiency, there’s no advantage to a v6 and more than a

My Pao came stock with a roof rack. Can I moonlight as a Google dude?

Jeels are supposed to be happy ffs.

I was going to answer “your mother” then I saw your answer and realized this question DOES apply to me.