Add to that rear-facing fogs.  I love seeing folks driving around in daytime with the super bright rear-facing fog on...

Poor little 'Zuki.  That's a pretty durable machine, too, though obviously not in a front-end impact like that.

Exactly.  This guy seems to have an innate ability to take a somewhat cool old car, and make it into complete crap that looks nothing like the original.

I'm betting that's exactly what he did.  He took a picture of the beautiful Morgan Aeromax over to West Coast Customs and sat down with their metal fabricators and started tweaking the design to make it "teh awesomeness."  The end result is a mishmash of styles and accents that absolutely doesn't work.

You just named everyone who should be in the movie.  Along with Christina Hendricks.  

When my brother was between STIs, he had a Forester XT which he was running in near STI trim.  It was pretty awesome.

When my wife and I were shopping for used Jettas, we originally wanted the TDI.  Imagine our surprise when we found they command a $5000 premium over the standard 2.5.

I said the exact same thing when responding on Google+ when someone posted this.  How come, regardless of event (spectacular car crash, gun weilding drivers, meteors, etc) the Russian people never say a dang word in response to what's going on.  It's like nothing phases them.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that grille is terrible.

My wife and I never stage rallied together, but we put plenty of time in on road/TSD rallies.  

Not necessarily.  I mean, yes, they are a bit paranoid, but if I ran his company, I'd certainly have full data logging on when loaning out my cars so I could gather useful driving data to help in my R&D.

You have a strange definition of "low cost."  I keep hearing $50-65k+ base price for this, which isn't low cost in my book (low cost is anything less than $30k).

Our servers can take it.

Is there any way to permanently turn off the annotations on the pictures?  I just want to see the picture, I don't really care about other people's asinine annotations and/or advertisements.

Obligatory.

I've posted this before, but here it is again. 1999 or so Thunderbird Rally in BC.

That's okay. We have other monuments. To quote Weird Al (in "The Biggest Ball of Twin in Minnesota"):

And you get points for getting to say "What in Sam Hill?!" as you go through the area.

Yep, it's right there off Hwy 14 & 97, just next to the Columbia river. From Kennewick, you could take I-82 over to Yakima (80 miles or so, easily can be done in an hour), then head S on 97 through the reservation (if you're feeling lucky, it can be dispatched rather quickly — but slow way the freak down to the speed…

Yeah, BC is definitely worth the visit. Everyone there is pretty dang nice.