It may have been technically about motorcycles, but American Chopper has to be at the top of the list. It was the progenitor of every one of the terrible, formulaic, faux-reality, artificial-deadline-y, overdramatized custom car shop shows that followed, from American Hot Rod all the way to Counting Cars and every…

Tucks his ears into flatbrim hats.

My goodness, the Nissan Axxess.   Haven’t thought about it in years. Chef’s kiss.

Hey, is anything produced in 1:64 truly obscure and forgettable?

The Axxess was a pretty neat package. Slow, but neat. They were popular enough here in Canada that I still see them from time to time, despite being actively hunted by the iron oxide demons.

So we have the Stanza, Axxess, and Mazda5 for station wagons with rear sliders. Any others? I love rear sliders

I think the bigger story here is that 17% of people surveyed didn’t know that Tesla offered an EV.

Thank you. People who hate on this have never had to deal with the cold early morning repercussions of the horrible equation that is:

I do this. Sorry not sorry. When you drive home in the snow with snow and ice all over your car it all just slides down the windshield from the warm window, collects on the wipers, and freezes. Then you go out in the morning and the wipers are in a miserable frozen block of crap. The defrost takes 30 minutes to clear…

This car really made me understand the phrase “so pretty, it hurts.” Scale is another thing that stands out about seeing such cars in person. Photos never do the best job of showing how tiny this car is, but a reference point certainly helps.

The NF-104 definitely left quite a permanent reminder on Chuck Yeager’s face. One of my favorite scenes from The Right Stuff:

Maybe we should start by defining “American”. Is a Toyota Tundra built in Texas American? How about a Ford Fiesta built in Mexico?

It would really tie the cab together.

This machine electrocutes fascists.

Woody Guthr-E.

This could be marketing gold.

I’m going to have to ask that the Marxman be renamed the Marxperson. We really need to be gender-neutral here, as all genders are trapped under the oppressive boot of capitalism 

2011-20 Sienna AWD.

so basically it was French