If cops are going to kill people and there’s not a darn thing we can do about it, then these are the people they should be killing. Anti-abortionists. Q followers. Sovereign citizen assholes. Trump supporters. Anti-vaxers. Anti-maskers. Pandemic deniers. Clive Bundy and his turd family. Wishful thinking, I know. I…

No, the suspect wasn’t cooperating and when they attempted to remove him from the car had reason to believe he was pulling a gun. That they found his gun on the passenger floor is consistent with that.

I just don’t get it. These people, so-called “sovereign citizens” and others, LOVE being in America, claim to be great patriots, but don’t believe that our government and laws apply to them at all? How does anybody get so deluded, so indoctrinated (because it’s not their own, spontaneous “research” that leads them to…

I have to disagree, the driver threatened the officers, then reached for a firearm that after the event was on the floor on the passenger side. the only way that gun moves from his holster to the floor is if he was pulling it from the holster so this was 100% a case where the force was justified. He intended to shoot…

Excess violence?? You kidding me?? The guy tried to pull a gun on a bunch of police officers.

...asserted his independence from the laws of the land...

SovCit’s have a long history of trying to kill police during traffic stops.

I feel torn, on the one hand: ACAB forever. On the other, if anyone is going to get shot at a traffic stop then one of these guys... y’know.

It needs 50% fewer miles, and 50% more pedals or 100% more driven wheels.

The Giugiaro-designed teardrop Impulse/Piazza ranks as one of the best car designs ever and my appreciation of it only increases with time. (And it’s a GM T-platform Chevette chassis!)

This was hot. That thing up there is a travesty.

Not at all. Also I would suggest any Northstar Cadillac driven by old people who never open it up. Seriously, you have 300HP. Use it once in a while!

IIRC, it produced about 180HP at the time, which is still pretty good for a naturally aspirated four-cylinder of that displacement.

I think they eventually attached balance shafts and renamed it. But it was pretty interesting when they took an Oldsmobile Cutlass? I think, prepped it for a top speed run at Bonneville, and managed a top speed of 220mph using the Quad4 as the basis for the powerplant.

Oh it was noisy, but powerful for a normally aspirated engine *at the time* and light-years better than the “Tech-4" cough cough Iron Duke it replaced. It’s the engine the base Fiero should have had, but I think the existence of each only overlapped by about a year.

This is a toughie, but the Ford Fairmont of the late 70s-early 80s did come available with a lower boost version the turbo Lima 4, which was also in the Mustang SVO...

Subaru 3.0 h6 needed to be in a cayman knockoff, not a suv. Loved to rev... and needed to. Feels dumb rolling up hills with 4k rpm in a suv.

Tough question. There is a fine line between crap car with great engine and ‘sleeper’. Anything in the mid 60's that was not a muscle car but received a 426 Hemi or 396/427 Chevrolet motor? I once knew a guy that had a ‘66 Chevrolet wagon with a 396. How about the 3.8L Turbo in the Grand National? Buick could’ve done…

GM “N” platform cars were not bad cars per se, but GM at the time did not have a car that showcased the Quad-4 very well.

Forget a car wasting a great engine, how about an entire brand. Is it too soon to suggest the Blackwing?