I’m sure some do... but there’s a good chance this will show up on many other Kinja sites as well such as LifeHacker and Jezebel and the like.

A couple more things worth noting...

All the classic shady used car dealer tricks are the worst at Buy Here/Pay Here lots.

Are you driving more thanks to lower gas prices?

What makes me feel like a dirty old man is the realization that this game (which I played as a kid when it was brand new) is older than my girlfriend.

Yep. This one takes the cake though. The orange truck would randomly get a ludicrous burst of speed in some races and you’d never be able to catch it. You could run the race completely perfect and it’d still finish a lap ahead of you. Only happened sometimes and I don’t think anyone has actually discovered why.

Yep, the rearview mirror in RRR made it a lot easier.

The black car was called 13th Racing and it had a dancing devil on the hood.

Vigilante 8. The Twisted Metal series was awesome, but V8 kicked it up a notch. So satisfying to learn the combo moves and blow away the competition. My favorite was (and still is) the dune buggy- tiny car, maneuverable as hell, with a giant-ass gatling gun. Just don’t get your ass shot.

Ridge Racer, even after 20+ years it’s still fun to kill an hour doing some simple arcade-style drifting.

RC Pro-Am. Still a riot 28 years later. And that damn orange truck is still infuriating.

I wouldn’t know, I don’t live there. My girlfriend’s best friend lives there and we always joke about the “common sense for all” signs whenever we cross the state line.

Funny thing... in New Hampshire it’s actually legal to not wear a seatbelt if you’re over 18, though they urge “common sense for all.” Insurance is optional on most vehicles as well.

Courtesy of Oppo today, I forget who posted it...

You know what frightens me about flying cars? Take all the idiots I share the road with every day, double their speed and add a third dimension of movement, plus the fact that a crash equals plummeting to your death instead of just pulling off to the shoulder. Yikes.

There was no need for this to go so far. The salesperson could’ve kept it civil but instead chose to argue it out like a Reddit commenter. If one of my salespeople talked to a customer like this I’d be having a serious talk with him.

The Soviet Ekranoplans. Brilliant concept and really nice execution, but never really got too far along. There were some serious functional concerns (rough seas, encountering other ships, icebergs, etc) but had the program survived long enough to see the advent of modern radar and computer processing power they may…

Yeah, I wrote up all that and then realized the question was “prototype.” D’oh!

The De Havilland Comet. It would’ve been a great initial foray into passenger jet operations were it not for its tendency to self-destruct at altitude, due to engineers not realizing its large square windows would lead to metal fatigue.

Almost every time the price is $2k or less it’s automatic NP for me.