You have no sense of adventure...

Most people know of the Ferrari 308 by way of Magnum P.I. However, the car was the subject of the greatest magazine article ever written. I refer to P.J. O’Rourke’s, Ferrari Reinvents Manifest Destiny. I’ll claim fair use and include an edited, small snippet here:

I mean, Chrysler 300/Bentley Flying Spur...

I’m sure you already know, but in order for Lord Selleck to fit they removed the seats, so he sat on the floor. When I was helping my brother-in-law build up a NA Miata we the seats for cleaning and repair and I found that it wasn’t as uncomfortable as you might think driving around sitting on the floor.

You had to buy the Testarossa for that

oh come on...no COTD nomination for this ?

It already tried ruining gas powered cars.

I want my EV AND I WANT IT NOW!!

this comment chain deserves to be comment of the day...

You know, with all the valid complaints about that movie and the many, many things it gets stupidly wrong, it bugs me that the one that gets repeated most is that one.

they’ve been flying under the radar too long!

Mine them all...

Yes, perpetual motion machines would solve all of our problems. Why hasn’t Elon Musk invented one of those yet?

I remember a book I read when I was a kid about a clockwork mouse that was able to create a system that, as his primary clockwork ran out, it would wind up a secondary system providing perpetual power. That’s what someone should invent.

hahaha

I’m down for hilarious steam punk future cars.

wait, the cobalt is going to derail the electric car revolution?

Of course it is. You just need Aerosmith playing in the background.

its about time someone free’d the shit out of the congo!

So we’re invading the Congo in about ten years then? Have we noticed military research firms churning out more jungle gear lately instead of desert gear? We should keep an eye on that one.