I’m still going to call it (the Grand Tour, which really should drop ‘the’ from the name) new Top Gear, as it really is Top Gear’s true successor. No idea how I will refer to the “new” BBC show, but I’ll figure something out.

Crack pipe? Crack pipe.

That is damn cool! What did he do for the body? Custom fab, or a kit?

That’s downright depressing. I think with an LS or modern-ish Mercedes swap, it could be a ton of fun. Maybe one day someone will offer a body kit that is actually worth a damn.

That wouldn’t surprise me one bit. Not like my opinion matters (as I am not currently in the target market for German luxury vehicles), but it is rather boring to see all of those brands with very little differentiation between displacements and turbos, like they lack creativity (even though 0.5L per cylinder is…

This has me wondering about the feasibility of taking a regular, $2,000 190 and making it look like the Evo pictured here. It’s gorgeous, in a brutally German sort of way, a road-going ME-262 if you will.

*now calling Tavarish*

Little late to the party, sport. Three other people already mentioned that. But thank you for your contribution.

That’s the only one I can think of; doesn’t Mercedes use a 4.0 twin turbo as well? I’m too lazy to look it up. I guess that adage about the German car companies all copying each other holds true.

Are there any new-ish German V8s that AREN’T 4.0L with twin turbos?

So...it’s an Odyssey with a bed. Or perhaps a Japanese El Camino: a car pretending to be a truck. Doesn’t help that it’s fugly. I hate just looking at the poor thing.

Hot damn. That’s nuts.

If you get it and do the work yourself (just a spitball guess as Porsches tend to be unreasonably expensive in virtually every sense since the market is going crazy now), you’re probably going to put at least $20k more into it by the time it’s back on the road in functioning condition.

What would it cost to buy just the remastered COD4? $20-30?

How are they powered? Does this mean you have to disconnect wires if you want to remove your hood (or even to open it if the wires are routed up near the nose)? I’m so confused by this pointlessly redundant, useless in practice feature.

I’d rather have a stock Galaxie and resto-mod it myself, thank you very much.

The best way to go about it is to inspect it yourself, figure out what it needs, replace anything questionable, and take it to your shop of choice (ideally one that plays a little loose) so you can pay them an exorbitant amount of money to do nothing more than slap a sticker on. That’s what my family does and it works…

100% appropriate (thank you to whoever I shamelessly stole this picture from). What is the seller thinking at this ridiculous price? Are they thinking at all?

All very fair points! Ford does occasionally build good motors (in terms of producing more power from less cubic inches at least, so I guess they have that going for them) and I would count the Coyote/Voodoo among them. I do still believe the LS/LT is superior in most measures compared to their Ford competitors, but…

State inspections, emissions, and income taxes, $60 annual registry stickers for a 2900 pound S10 (I get charged double what most others get charged simply because it has a bed, even though their vehicles weigh much more), along with the rampant corruption and legitimately terrible roads, combined with the four…