I agree the license plate is suspicious, but the bumper mount might have been too low for state regulations, given the lower ride height for the Solara. I’ve seen Teslas in California with these decal-like license plates in front. Not sure if they’re legal, but people do it.

Pretty sure that’s a Sarlacc, dude. 

FYI if you click start slideshow and then the “list slides” in the upper right hand corner, you get the list, and if you are intrigued, you can click on any of them rather than looking at them all.  It’s still annoying, of course. 

Also they’re wrong about the TransAm, Bandit’s car made 220 hp, more than the first-gen BRZ and only 8 less than the current ones. It was only later when they were running out of 400 blocks (or maybe if you were CA) that you got the 185 hp Oldsmobile 403. Plus you could cut open the shaker hood scoop and hear the…

First Gear: Tesla is not even close to being the most productive car manufacturer in the world, though. Mattel produces 519 million cars and trucks each year, which is about 10 million a week, or 16.5 every second.

Tracy repairs Jeep for Tracy. It’s always Tracy, Tracy, Tracy!

No it’s just that there seems to be a “the Americans with their big engines, so crude” trope, but they are doing the same thing, and yes, most Americans don’t really pay attention to metric displacements on cars even if there’s a call-out, apart from they now know 5.7 liters is 350, and some remember 6.6 liters is 400…

Ah, 5.7 liters, aka, 350 cubic inches. Same displacement as millions of Chevys. I like how the European cars get to be all snooty about how crude US cars are, and because they use liters nobody notices that a Mercedes 6.9 is really just packing a honking big 390 V8. Porsche had to throw in a few more cylinders,…

Driving up and down highway 19 north of Tampa, there are TONS of huge billboards for personal injury / car accident lawyers, which is truly terrifying when you think about why that is.  Looking at the four to six lanes each way with lights and early bird buffets at the restaurants and many other businesses directly on…

I tried pumping my own a few times in NJ many years ago because I didn’t trust the attendant to not dribble gas on my 1968 Mustang, which had an abrupt angle from the rear fill. Once a young woman came out and stopped me, only to have the nozzle jump out. I told her this is why I wanted to do it, and she grumpily said…

Whether you’re breaking the law or not should not depend on how you identify (or can be identified). I think you meant “ambiguous,” not androgynous. I agree with the OP (and you, I think) that there should be some safety-oriented exceptions built in; I also think it will avoid some of the AI / human problems where the…

I kind of think more Ferrari P3 / P4.

Leave my Nobe out of this. (Their website says “Lightness is the future.”)

I would go so far as to say, “tons” of people today go out of their way to buy heavy-looking or actually heavy vehicles because they think they’re safer. And if we’re talking about a head-on collision, they may not be wrong, although the many downsides of the extra weight and size probably more than make up for any…

The 1971 T-Bird was the Cyrano of cars.

A bit harsh to include the T-Bird. It was a decent homage to the original, trunk was oddly small given the car’s size, but I had it for a rental and it was fine. Like the original, a cruiser not a racer. Also had a rental Lumina (made up until 2013!), now THAT car sucked, felt unsafe at highway speeds.

Leave Britney alone.

The MGA has some of the cleanest lines of any car. Near to production prototypes came in 12th and 17th overall (!!) at LeMans in 1955. And today I learned that, according to Wikipedia anyway, they were raced in Grand National (NASCAR) races in 1960-63, of which I would love to see video. They didn’t win but boy those…

There’s an old one not far from me that’s reforested and literally called Quarry Park. They may have cleared out the truly toxic stuff but there will be bits of that car there everywhere, forever. 

And today’s award for needless waste combined with permanently polluting a beautiful place goes to this chucklehead. Zero points for creativity. And at least whale blubber deteriorates in time.