Yeah, but how would they get the tank made for free without trading secrets for it?

Here's my attempt at out-pedanting the "I knew all about it before you were born" folks. Check it: That's not a GT40 in the top photo on #2. The one with the Gurney bubble was referred to by at least some people as the GT43, because they were named after the height in inches. And the modern Ford GT is also 43…

I've always said that, but I like doing it anyway.

Well, I've been saying for a while that she's got a lot of talent, but doesn't have that little bit extra to be a dominant racer in the highest echelons of the sport. Maybe almost, but not quite. Not quite aggressive enough on passing in the corners, not quite willing enough to rub shoulders. I dunno. She's done…

I agree. Remember when Montoya hit the jet dryer in Daytona and set the whole track on fire? Red flag anything where runouts are occupied. If they're occupied, they're no longer runouts.

This is why my car doesn't have an OBDII port. No wait; that's because I like old cars.

The front suspension geometry was also a little wonky. And mine has a rust hole, which is actually turning out to be more difficult to fix than the head gasket was.

Waitwaitwait. Is the Russian word for car "Car machine?" I'm pretty sure he says that a couple times.

The cigarette lighter. The actual lighters have been gone for years now, but the little socket still remains, and you still have to buy an adapter for it if you want to plug anything in. This isn't going to last much longer. It will be replaced with a USB port within ten years. In fact, it's kind of surprising…

I have always loved this film, but I've always been puzzled by the route. Presumably since it would have been much faster to stay on the Peripherique, it was meant to show off the scenery. But if you want to film a drive down the Champs Elysee in a hurry, and you get to pick the destination, why pick one that takes…

"Turbo" because turbo snails? I had some of them in an aquarium once, but the hermit crabs figured out how to pull them off the glass and ate them, and then the pufferfish ate the hermit crabs.

The original post explains that there are 20 backup wheels that come out if you get a flat.

I agree quite completely. I actually gave up Jalopnik around that time, then came back because the writing suddenly got more interesting again, but I basically can't deal with the comments sections at all. There's no Jalop community anymore because of this crap.

I heard it gets 40 rods to the hogshead...

Great story, Travis. Jalopnik is back on my bookmarks list.

As Jalopnik's resident linguist, I call shenanigans on that one. Some background information:

That is so fugly I genuinely had to hold back some vomit. Not joking. Doesn't help being hung over, but seriously, what happened to the old Ian Callum design language? Fisker was pretty good at continuing it while still modernizing it, but this is just an appalling exaggeration of everything that was ever done…

Cabin-Repositioned Armillary Contraption for Kinetic Perception of Individual Position on Earth.

If you're enough of a meth-head to cut up your carpet over a sale like this, you're awfully likely to opt to trade it for meth, as opposed to a Ford...

Is it inappropriate for us to link to our own movembers in here?