Eh, no. Automatic CP for me.

Go to Zillow and look at pretty much any small city or township, particularly in the South or the Rust Belt. Rows and rows of houses for $35-75k.

Lumina LTZ, to be exact.

As clean as this is, its rep can’t reach escape velocity from the engine.

I think I’d leave the VW Phaeton off. The electronics demons alone would be nonstop. I remember reading a Car and Driver review of a V8 model back when they were new, and even factory fresh the writer said so many things would turn on randomly or go haywire somehow. Definitely not a sleeper used car for the cash timid.

The exact first image my mind conjured when I saw that truck’s face.

OMG, talk about getting the rug pulled out. That’s the cheapest, shittiest Camry they ever made, too.

Well, I hear an engine running, but that’s about it. You couldn’t even tell it was a Viper engine, and if there was no visual to go with it, I think anyone (unless they’re very atuned to the sound of the V10's starter motor) would think this was a V8 rig. 

Ya. The section pictured above is the one around Lockhart. But the main reason nobody takes the road is the toll. If that weren’t there, it would probably get more traffic. Are thre multiple toll stops along the way, or just at the north and south ends? (clearly I don’t live there.)

I get it, but any performance diesel does that. All the diesel drag trucks pour black smoke into the air. I watched the whole video and maybe I missed itbut I don’t think the intent behind these builds was to roll coal. That’s just a side effect of using diesels.

The whole display is an electronic graphic. Supposedly Lexus had to use a screen instead of real gauges because the V10 rev’d so fast analog needles couldn’t keep up. Thus you see every twitch of revolutions as fast and the engine computer can read them.

As long as the Explorer has black steelies with chrome caps, you’ll be more than safe assuming its the Po-Po if there’s no other markings that explicitly say “Police”. In fact nearly anything with black steelies, whether it’s a Tahoe, Charger, Explorer, Taurus, etc., is more than likely the police. Even the odd pony…

This guy must have some sort of mental illness. Every time he pops up in the news, he’s doing something stupid and spouting off about critics, usually using some comforting straw man argument he concocted on the spot to make himself feel smug and self-righteous.

Torque limiting != lack of ability. It just means that Ford (or any other manufacturer) had to build some reigns for their horses. Even if the transmission could take the power that far down (which it likely can), there’s the issue of unnecessary wheel spin because you’re throwing 900+ torque down a driveshaft to, at…

There aren’t any cheap enough yet, but I was going to say Chevy SS. Wrap the daily driver and fun car into one. The Pontiac G8 and GTO were mentioned, though, so the Chevy SS is pretty much covered by those.

Too Far To Care is an earth-shatteringly great album back to front.

This F-250 is probably only marginally shorter than the Ram. The Ram has a megacab and short bed; this F-250 (or F-350 SRW) appears to have a bigger bed than the Ram, which would mean the F-250/350 is still about as long as the Ram. The Ram would be able to handle the same obstacle the F-250 did, just fine. The…

Doesn’t help that this guy bought the Mega Cab model. If he hadn’t, he’d have a better chance of getting over that. Just dumb either way, though. What is he trying to get to, and how did he come upon the notion that his 3.5-ton 7/10ths semi could go anywhere he wanted it to? I’m guessing that if his truck is still…

Freakin’ easiest NP in a while.

Ya, these Vir/antages are a perfect explanation of how money can’t buy taste. Or a decent build contract with quality above kit car status. Huge tires, ungainly proportions, the chassis looks disconnected from the body, those British parts-bin mirrors, prototype-worthy panel gaps...