I'm sorry, if we let you get away with it, then we have to let everyone else get away with it. Please cancel your ISP subscription, and turn in your tower to the local e-recycler.

And that's just the car. Each of your racers has to have a fireproof suit and helmet (or be similarly sized to share with someone else, so still, two suits for a four man crew at least), plus your fueling crew if you do ChumpCar (which could be your other drivers). 24 Hours of LeMons used to sell complete sets for, I…

When I was a kid, there always seemed to be someone in the neighborhood building some wonderfully absurd kit car on an old VW chassis. That basic VW platform was the basis for so many DIY car projects. Sadly, there's nothing like that now. But maybe a new open-souce car called the Tabby will change that.

Actually, I think Honda hides those in the C pillar.

To continue the theme, even the US has a policy about being able to drive versus your salary: if you can't afford insurance, you can't drive (or you're not supposed to). Admittedly, that cost of entry is screamingly low compared to our level of average income, so it's not really apparent. This from Dubai, however, is…

Amen, bud, Kuwait was far worse than Iraq. 3 weeks at Camp Buehring waiting to go in-country back in '05 taught me that one.

I cannot stand Twitter or Facebook, but when people share stories from those of people making idiots of themselves in front of an audience of millions (possibly billions), I can't help but smile and put up with those institutions just a little while longer.

I saw the first image and thought of this:

Thank you. I was hoping someone would remember this and post it up.

The wheels killed it for me as well, but I'd start around $5 large.

PISA's ZR2 kit (make your Fiero look like a C4!) is not all that bad... if the C4 was a Corvette worth drooling over.

I didn't see anyone else post it, so:

Not quite a decade, 2006 was the last reported year of it, but I am surprised that it has been 8 years, 'cause I could have sworn Top Gear UK was talking about them a lot more recently than that. My, how time flies when you're following car news.

Yep, couldn't care about a four-seat Smart. Would really like to see them bring the Roadster over:

Skoda has some of the most innovative features in the entire VW brand portfolio. The Superb has a multimode trunk that can be both a regular trunk and a hatchback. The Rapid has an ice scraper in the fuel filler door, which is a trick little feature that every automaker should have. There's the reconfigurable…

I know that, but who could resist poking fun at the urban-myth "legendary crappiness" of the DMC-12? Yeah, they were horribly underpowered for their weight, but they're about as reliable as every other stock car from the '80's.

And Jerry's driven some sketchy cars in this series, but I'm pretty sure this is the first time one has broken down on him.

This is funny. I've been catching up on The Smoking Tire podcast, and the episode I'm listening to (#48, I think), they're complaining that their sponsor, Dillon Optics, won't let them try out their Dillon Aero miniguns from a helicopter on a car. Looks like someone figured out the insurance for it.

This is what the payments felt like - getting run over by a car.