“Knock knock.”

A look back at the “good old days” of civil discourse:

If I buy this do I automatically get to be a pastor at an AME church? Praise the Lord, CP!

(Caveat: This might not seem like such a good idea after I sober up.)

Nine grand would get you a decent R107 Mercedes SL, which is a much nicer throwback tourer. (And its resale value is going up, as the insane Pagoda bubble has made the W113s unattainable.) If you really yearn for Carter-era wedgemobile, $9k will get you an X1/9 with a Honda K20 swap, which will be immeasurably more…

There is no endurance sport that wouldn’t be improved by making competitors battle robots.

Is there some sort of Col. Kurtz thing unfolding in NPOCP headquarters? Maybe somebody should go check on Rob and make sure he is, like, okay.

I dream of the future when the autonomous cars automatically track their own market value, and the instant they drop below $500 they veer off and join autonomous LeMons races.

It was advertised as a “car that will handle and corner about as fast as anyone would really care to.” (Would you care to go faster? No thank you, not in this terrifying POS.)

The last Ferrari front row in 2008 had Kimi on pole. I wanted to see him back on the top step today! In that race Massa qualified 2nd and went on to win. The old guys are still pretty quick almost a decade later.

Count me in

But not these guys

At what point do they just give up? Both McLaren and Honda are trying to sell real cars to real customers, and their cringeworthy Extravaganza of Rubbish Engineering has to be hurting their brands at this point. It’s like buying hours of global advertising and using it to declare, “Look at us! We suck!” I think…

Poking around my 2012 Mercedes C250, I discovered it was built in East London, South Africa. Turns out that Mercedes has been building cars there since the W121 in 1958. Thus far this car has had fewer quality/reliability issues than the German-assembled C and E classes I’ve had.

Yes! My first car, in 1984, was a 1976 Fiat 131 Mirafiori. I bought it for $250 from an insurance auction after a small fire toasted the wiring harness (shocker). I did all the wrenching on it, and loved driving that thing. Twin cam five speed, rear wheel drive, so much fun. Cue nostalgic car reverie. . . sigh.

I like snap oversteering backwards into a pine tree as much as the next guy, but not for $20k. CP.

Trafigura and Mercuria are commodities traders. Together they had revenues of over $200 billion last year, even though almost no one has heard of them. In their offices you’ll find rows and rows of traders buying and selling petroleum, metals and other commodities. These barrels of gasoline might change hands…

I had one of these hatchbacks, an 85 with the 5-speed. Great car, stellar build quality, surprisingly fun around town. I remember driving a Citation in the 1980s thinking “what would possess anyone to buy this groaning, creaking POS instead of an Accord.” NP.

The same Qvale (pronounced “chlamydia”) is on EBay, currently $12,100 with three days left. No reserve, so the maniacs who think this is NP can get to bidding: http://m.ebay.com/itm/2001-Other-Makes-MANGUSTA-TARGA-CONVERTIBLE-/222440795804?hash=item33ca812e9c%3Ag%3At-gAAOSw9GhYki6q&_trkparms=pageci%253Adf725c79-0f00-11…

+1 roll model. Definitely sending this to my 15-year-old daughter, who argues that the proper first car for a teen is anything with three pedals and right hand drive.