Crushed after 300,000 miles? Easy solve. Jam a Toyota ZZ series engine (preferrably one breathed on by Lotus for their cars) under the bonnet, fiddle with the suspension and brakes to update it, add new tyres and you're done.

Everytime i've seen the top photo in the advertising box in the top right of the front page, I keep thinking its a picture from Gawker Artists.

I feel compelled to point out the AE86 parked next to it...

Its obvious that the ad is set on a handling testing course, with rumble strips and tyre walls, with obviously a test driver/scientist guy behind the wheel, and yet they still add the "Professional Driver. Closed Course" caption to it.

@lascauxcaveman: "...If you kill yourelf here, we can't kill 'em over there..."

@Tanshanomi: I agree as well. I like it specifically because it looks so horrible and fake theres no way anyone could mistake it for anything else but a re-skinned and laughably bad knockoff.

So I guess this is a socio-political statement against the patriarchal capitalistic society, and its use of war as a system to line the pluto-crats pockets with blood soaked dollars by reducing this symbol of male power, shown by the obvious phallic design of the tank barrel that fires 'high velocity shells,' to…

A McLaren F1. With DUBs. And a leopard skin interior.

Buy this to go along with the Corvette BBQ [jalopnik.com], Corvette [jalopnik.com], Porsche [jalopnik.com] and DB6 [jalopnik.com] seats, backgammon set [jalopnik.com] and your toolkit cutlery [jalopnik.com] and your either the coolest guy ever or you'll never nevr make it with a woman again!

I don't like the fairy lights either. they look awful and out of place in such a refined vehicle.

Then there was the white Toyota MR2 Mk.1 at a fuel station a couple of days ago, two yellow R34 Skylines, one may have been a GT-R, the other the FR that came beneath it in the lineup. There is also a Corvette C5 (or the last generation to come with the pop-up headlights anyway) that seems to be on permanent display…

A Nissan Silvia S13 in my university car park yesterday, or the Nissan Skyline R32 that seems to be permanently sitting in my local garage. (My guess is its one of the workers own project car. It has a white body kit on original black body, the bonnet and front clip seem to be permanently gone. It was also surprising…

This reminded me of the Wikipedia entry on the Mini and to get around the restrictions of cars under 25 years old, importers will swap around the VIN plates of older cars and simply claim that they replaced every single part of the car:

@Neoscape: Nissan is allowing a few of the big auto tuners such as Mine's and others a way around the deadlocked system so they can create proper tuned versions. I think the system is in place simply to stop any yahoo with a spanner and a laptop messing around with the settings and creating dangerous cars.

I'm quite saddened theres no clutch. I wanted to practise my m4d c1utch-kick drif7ing skillz.

Taking the idea from Top Gear, the perfect summer car would be taking the roof off a Renault Espace, but instead of faffing around with a soft top, install chromed roll-over bars, a decent sound system and more stylish seats, spruce up the interior, jack up the suspension, put on big knobbly off-roading tyres on nice…

This is an early April Fools right?

What I noticed about this ad:

I guess this thing would only report speeds a certain amount over the speedlimit otherwise your phone will look like this:

If Spiderman ever needed a big rig...