With this information I'm astounded that I was able to get an MA in English Literature or remain employed as an editor, all while driving fun cars with manual transmissions. The car I had in grad school was even a charcoal-hued coupe. If I wake some morning and fail to remember the difference between a gerund and a…

Also my first thought. Just looked at WRXs on Carmax. To make it more outrageous about every used WRX has been driven hard because it's about impossible not to. I was once at a preview day for a dealer off lease auction. The dealers were taking turns hooning the WRX around the massive lot.

Oh, and while this doesn't rise to near the level of those ads, this Acura ILS promo really gets me in some dark, twisted way. Mostly it's the background music coupled with the way that guy says, "Yeah, Jammin!'" Some people just shouldn't say "jammin'."

These are all great, in that by "great" I mean "so awful I can't look away," but the Renault ad is special. I mean, how many car ads have featured mimes? (That's rhetorical as I don't want to know if there are more). But mines! How did the idea meeting go when that came up. "We have the dancing, we have the music,…

A lot of great articles, but my favorite has to be, "How A $500 Craigslist Car Beat $400K Rally Racers."

The mechanical hound was also my first thought.

The linked Times article has some detail. I first heard about these on a news program, but I've forgotten which.

How about some down to the basics coolness? The US Marines have Kawasaki KLR650 dual sports that run on diesel. NY Times article

OK, I never knew this existed. Even though I knew of "Eat My Dust," another movie starring Ron Howard as a kid who steals a race car, picks up a girl and is chased by the police and even the other race car drivers throughout the movie. (Edit - Nevermind. I just saw it is in the Worst Car Movies list, and deservedly.…

Another not unheard of but under appreciated movie, especially for people born well after it was made, is Grand Prix. This quote has stuck with me: "I think if any of us imagined - really imagined - what it would be like to go into a tree at 150 miles per hour we would probably never get into the cars at all, none…

I'm flattered my nomination made it to the list, but this is the scene of which I was thinking.

So, it's a pretend car, but the scene where Doc Hudson breaks out the old racing tires was pretty iconic for car enthusiasts of about any age.

It's pseudo related, but I've always found this track day video weirdly funny:

Does anyone else recall the GTA IV commercial for Brucie's Lifestyle Executive Autos? Something like, "Take a car developed by world-class engineers and let a guy from East Hook modify it ... That's player style, baby!"

I'm going to go way back and say that C'etait un rendezvous set the tone for every car video which followed. Tough to find links to it, at least ones that don't violate copyright.