It is important to point out that this "study" did not include actual measurements of the owner's wealth- and I'm sure we all know many wealthy folks who drive beaters and poor folks who spend every nickle they make to lease a Mercedes. However, I do agree with the general conclusion that modern day well-to-do luxury…

In other news California introduces a new plan to build 1000 miles of HOV lanes along the interstate 5. The High Opulence Vehicle lanes will be restricted to luxury makes and overpriced classics purchased at BarrettJackson auction. Vehicles with faded "Live Better Work Union" or "Gore/Lieberman 2000" stickers will…

LA Subway system...

In other news: CNN reports a belt driven hyperloop concept from Elun Moosk. Dingbat reporter 1 asks dingbat reporter 2: "is the belt reversible?"

Because LeMons.

Also the Cadillac big block powered C3 Vette ranks up there...but the ad is long gone.

This $500 Dirty Martini Rossi Porsche is just strange because normally people ask $5k for these kind of "barn find" piles 'o' turd.

That is your theory...

Step 1: Drive your $1,500 beater to nearest airport long term parking lot.

Re: Tranny - Don't forget about the extra 2 gears available off the front power-take-off unit...so the transmission is a 7-spd DCT + 2-spd SCT. The front transmission uses only two gears and has different ratios so the front clutch continually slips, but is only used when traction is limited. Hooning in the snow…

Crack pipe. For 1/2 the price you can get a 944 with fuel injected Chevy LM7 V8 under the hood. Neither will ever be "collectable" but only one will be "fast."

Feels tight to me...

afrayed I wasn't an English major...

Buyer, pointing at battery tray: "Is that twine?"

Reminds me of the story of the guy who crashes his brand new Ducati and screams: "Oh no...my DUCATI, my DUCATI!!".

BBC America has been running reruns of Star Trek TNG - great stuff!!

There have been discussions over the years about giving F1 teams unlimited resources to build crazy engines and then making them race on 5 gallons of fuel...unfortunately this will only increased the ridiculous spectacle and cause races to resemble velodrome style bike competitions were everyone bikes around at half…

What does this Italian dude got to do with France?

Alex Severinsky...wait the question is: Who is the biggest a-hat bilking an industry for convincing the blind idiots at the patent office to give him a patent for a basic concept...right?