Steve McQueen.

Ayrton Senna.

Wait, I made a tongue-in-cheek reference to Jalopnik’s love for the brown diesel manual shooting brake and actually made the list? Color me shocked.

Blah blah blah brown diesel manual shooting brake blah blah

Because with crossovers hopefully going extinct, we need to repopulate the 4x4 segment with some real off road vehicles.

“If that car comes out looking anything like that, I’ll eat my own hair.”

A beat up 1939 Plymouth coupe?

I’d imagine a Smart (or anything tiny) would enjoy driving a Hummer. Seeing what the road is like from a different perspective, if you will.

Ricky, who lives in Sunnyvale

Nissan Pulsar NX, because it makes me happy knowing there’s some other crazy person like me out there keeping one of these alive. I’ve only seen like 3 in the past five years.

New column to go along with Letters To Doug. Doug’s Bedtime Stories.

I agree, but at least in a car a 50 pounds overweight driver plus his girlfriend don’t throw the weight balance off enough to point the light right into everyone’s eyes.

I always assumed it was a stiff suspension + badly aligned headlight + lots of bumps.

Good on you toning them down at least. If your lights are so bright they’re blinding other people on the road, you have gone from keeping yourself safe to becoming a safety hazard.

“Loud pipes save lives,” they say. They’re wrong.

Super bright xenon/HID headlights. It’s the worst when the bike wasn’t designed for it, all they do is blind other drivers and don’t even light up the road for the rider all that well. +10 when the rider is a good bit heavier than the bike was tested for and/or has a passenger, pushing the rear suspension down and…

Actually it was just branded “GM.” No brand affiliation.

Any number of classic Cadillacs, because the only way to make them even sleeker would be to do away with the wheels.

The GM EV-1, because what’s more suited to hover than something that already looks like a bubble?

Co-worker: It’s a Thursday morning, why are you so hung over?