@token_illiterate_commenter: Unlike the other supersize trends, this one's functional. Heavy-duty diesel pickups are cranking out about twice the power they were making 15-20 years ago, requiring charge air cooling and bigger radiators, and the emissions controls (especially the water-cooled EGR they're using to…

Seriously? I love rally, but for spectacular crashes look no further than Sprint Cup and restrictor plates.

Oh great, we'll get more of these videos.

@Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: There wasn't any contact, just a following distance that was more suited to the last lap at Talladega than to a 2-lane road with heavy traffic both ways. I pulled off and let them go try to play bumper cars with the semi we were stuck behind instead of with my motorcycle.

@Pixel: Heart-click for this post. I think a lot of us had those moments as young hoons. (Mine was "Wooo! F*ck!" *180's the '73 Cougar on a muddy road, punting a passing pickup in the left rear hubcap with the right pointy bit of the bumper*)

@dwegmull: I don;t know, but it seemed like a black SUV that was behind me the other day wanted to be about that far back.

@greimel: in my experience it would be driving within a mile of someone with Wisconsin plates, with an honorable mention to South Dakota 8AA-### plates (Davison County / Mitchell.)

@BlueBomb: A shadow of its former self, 'tis true; but it's still a Mustang-based Cougar, the 2nd-to-last year of its kind. FWIW the sequentials hung on till '73, I had to go slap the control unit upside its figurative head a couple times on mine.

@MrHowser: Another Scout, a bunch of F-150's (2-'77, 1-'78, 1-'90), a '78 and '79 F-250 and F-350, 2 early-70's IH pickups, 2 '60's IH Loadstar trucks, and 2 Ford F-600's with Marmon-Herrington 4WD systems, plus my folks' '83 Century T-type and a couple Chrysler minivans that a hired man had. It's more or less the…

I'm so sorry to see this car go. The body, paint, and interior are all better than my '73 was when we parked it because of major internal engine trouble.

@MrHowser: I bet it feels better than the decayed remnants of the original wheel, which looked like this. (This is my '73, waiting on the hill for its eventual fate along with the other decommissioned vehicles in the family... and yes, the red vehicle in background is a Scout 800. And no I don't know why there are…

@SadgatiMakudonarudo: I agree, this is likely the Cleveland. It sure looks like my now-10-year-old memories of the engine bay of my '73.

'65-'70 GTO. I like the stacked headlights and the '68-'70, but the '71 nose did the car no favors, and I think the '64 is boring looking.

@Dhillaz 2.0: I have that problem with the new 3's too. After just seeing pictures in magazines and online I was not liking the car much. Then I go to the Mazda dealer, glance at the 3's, and I'm all "LOL HAPPY CAR IS HAPPY"

@bmoreDLJ: It might just be a tiny wheel. My Dakota's airbag is smaller than my T-bird's, but the wheel is smaller too and the ratio seems about the same.

-Sprite Mk. II. Pictured is my dad's. I remember riding in it when I was about 3, me and my sister would sit in the little cavity behind the seats. Then in my teenage years me and dad took the car out so I could learn heel-and-toeing and generally managing a car that would probably lose a drag race to our '83…

@TR3-A: +1. Even when I was looking for a car to take to college 11 years ago, 10 seconds 0-60 wasn't too unusual in the mainstream used cars I was looking at.

@TurboBrick [LIGIER]: Do want.

@Goes Like Stink: a college roommate of mine had one that looked just like that, except any smoke generation would be from the front wheels. Really fun little car, though we had to use my T-bird to tow it to a shop at least once (IIRC the shift linkage went out.)

@Jordan Palamar: Pikachu magnet yellow?