The rope pull-start method reminds me of back when I was 15 or 16 and a friend of mine said I could have his beat-to-shit Honda Spree if I could make it run. The battery was dead and the kickstarter was jacked. So I pulled off some of the cooling shroud, wound a length of nylon rope around the cooling fan, gave it a…

No, it doesn’t. The rear tires appear to break loose briefly right after the launch, before the car squats and digs like no FWD car ever has.

Hmmmm, must be related to this seller: http://detroit.craigslist.org/mcb/cto/506248…

Weird. I was just about to post this picture with almost identical commentary (except I was going to say that if it’s good enough for Putin, it’s good enough for you). In any event, after the old Tatras, this is a clear contender. To me, it looks like a Soviet NSU. And I love the “ears” in the back.

So wait, the kid’s name is Cueter Chrysler? ‘Cause that’s pretty weird.

I’m old enough to have owned a number of cars that didn’t have power brakes (and they weren’t vintage cars back then, either). I’m also old enough to have owned cars that weren’t as reliable as cars these days and would stall for no apparent reason, thus losing power assist. Although I’m glad for power assist on…

Although if we assume that the word “power” modifies “breaks” as well as “steering,” and an ignition switch acts as a power breaker to most systems in the car, then it’s almost right...

I sold VWs 15-20 years ago and it was the same story then. You couldn’t really custom order a car, you could just request one and hope that the factory would build a batch of cars close enough to the one you wanted that your car would get built eventually.

Interesting. I used to sell VWs from the mid-’90s through early ‘00s and it sounds like their allocation system hasn’t changed at all. A dealer couldn’t really order a car from the factory back then and it sounds like they can’t really do it now, either. Instead, they place what is basically a request with the factory…

Nope. Front u-joint.

Yep. It’s pretty obvious that is exactly what happened.

Not to take anything away from his artistic skills, which are hugely impressive, but there’s a lot of nonsense going on with the car engines he’s drawn there. The bike engines are more accurate.

Oddly enough, this is the third V8-swapped 90 I’ve seen in as many months. This one is the cheapest and appears to be the cleanest/most streetable. NP if the old 4000 trans can handle roughly double the hp and torque it originally saw.

“We’re not in the business of wrongfully accusing anybody.”

Alfa Milano/75. A car that is undeniably cool, but also so heavy looking in the rear flanks, plus the kicked up beltline at the back that causes non-Alfisti to wonder if the car has been rear-ended.

I had to smile, I’ve owned each of the cars you listed except the Z24. The FX-16 was the most entertaining, though to be fair, neither it or the GLH should be on this list as it is a list of “normal” (i.e., not the performance model) hatchbacks.

Hamilton may have eased off on the last lap when he knew his gap was unassailable, but he also radioed that he had a bbw (brake-by-wire) fault. Rosberg claimed that he suffered a end-of-race brake problem, with his pedal “going to the floor,” and if Rosberg’s claim is to be believed then it stands to reason that…

No McLaren MP4/4 (which, between Senna and Prost, won 15 out of the 16 races in the ‘88 F1 season and grabbed 10 second places as well)? It makes the Williams FW14B (which was itself no slouch, usually qualifying 1-2 seconds (and occasionally nearly 3 seconds) faster than the rest of the field) look positively…

Luck isn’t quite the word I would use. Clearly, the decision to split the Ferrari driver’s strategies was brilliant—but only because it worked. If Raikkonen had lost huge chunks of time to the leaders instead of closing down on them, it would have looked foolish. But Ferrari already knew from Friday testing that their…

Bespoke. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.