I’m reminded of Richard Hammond and his adventures with the Noble supercar in Italy on TOP GEAR...
“...sure it’s got an engine from a Volvo SUV—but Yamaha makes it, and they’ve done some amazing bike engines...and then the carbuilders stuck a couple of turbos on it.”

It’s obviously a dream sequence.  Data looks that way because Picard’s perspective of him is both realistic AND unrealistic.

The translation really helps the video.

For the Christopher Reeve movie Somewhere in Time they used Mackinac as a location and brought in antique cars to help the setting.  Just a Datum.

Absolutely all for it.  Heck, film production companies should buy them for the motor pools.

Last time I did I had the excuse that I was doing the legwork for the actual potential buyer (in this case, my sister). I did once test drive a car for the prize that they were offering, only to get shafted out of the prize. I don’t feel guilty about that. Decades ago, water under the bridge, the place went out of…

Think Jalopnik can do an article about how to be a profitable loser team in NASCAR? Lose on Sunday, win in the spreadsheets?

That’s about 10 times the KBB value of my current car.
As a Simona fan, I feel very conflicted.

This was more interesting than I thought it would be. I want to do my own low-budget motorsports movie someday and the video was an education of sorts.
Back in the Seventies Fangoria or Starlog did an article about the shop that built the vehicles for Damnation Alley and the original Death Race 2000.  The builder said…

KIA:

Riding Bean was a one-shot video by Kenichi Sonada, who is famous for also creating Bubblegum Crisis and Gall Force. It’s in the same continuity as his Gunsmith Cats series. As you can see, he borrowed heavily from Stateside chase movies, and The Blues Brothers is one of his favorites.

Closest thing I got to doing something like this with my own mother was to take her to a pre-owned luxury car dealership so she could try out the passenger seat of a Rolls-Royce.
She was a fiction author.  It was “research”.

Other people are free to call my car boring. I don’t blame them.  I’ve had plenty of fun with it over the fifteen years I’ve had it, so I won’t complain.

Energy drinks usually give me headaches (possibly because of the guarana).  How about this stuff?

They’d be pics of Pontiacs.

I think there is some demented importer who is taking KIAs off the dock and dressing them up as Pontiacs. That is the only theory I can think of that explains why there are still so many Pontiacs on the road in the hands of hamfisted yahoos.

*plays the theme to “The A Team” in your honor*

“The defendant is accused of selling wine before its time.  How do you plea?”

UPDATE: Kaz Grala now has a ride this season with Richard Childress, so no problems with having to scrounge for a ragdoll car from now on.

Lately I’ve been trying to solve an automotive thought experiment:
* Part 1: What would have been the minimal changes needed for the C111-Ⅱ to be street-legal in the U.S. in the middle 1970s (presuming either a reliable rotary engine got developed or M-B just fitted it with an existing production engine)?
* Part 2: What…