Here I was, assuming you drove the Bentley 8 Litre to your flu shot for the first part of your comment, and plot twist...

You know, that one I’d actually learned about some years ago and wasn’t remembering. Probably read about it right here in Jalopnik. But I’m not american so the Taurus SHO doesn’t carry the iconic status of the Fairlady Z, the 2000GT or even the MR2 for me, it’s not surprising that I forgot about it.

Didn’t know that either. I always thought Yamaha’s involvement with the automotive industry was just their foray into F1 as supplying engines to back marker teams and the OX99-11 that the F1 program spawned. Seems like they’re pretty low-key about their automotive achievements :)

I was gonna say this. Mansory can get fucked too. I’m not eager to criticise other people’s taste in cars but I will open an exception for anyone who likes Mansory.

I have two. They happen to both be blue Renaults for some reason. My dad’s 1977 Renault 12 break, and my first car, a Renault Espace MK1 from hell that me and my wife bought in 2011 and kept for about 5 years, until the engine died after multiple stuff failed (way too much to list) and a pile of repair bills stinking…

That is not necessarily an either/or situation. Depending on the driver, “feels like and old car” and “great to drive” can be basically the same thing.

I was Today years old when I found out about Yamaha’s involvement with the development of both the Fairlady Z and the 2000GT.

Back in my hometown in northern Portugal there was this guy who owned - and often daily-drove - a bright red Plymouth Fury hearse, with the original black vinyl roof with landau bars, which made for an interesting contrast (looking at pictures online, it was almost definitely a ‘68). He had it since the early 90s up…

Well, except for the blue cloud of smoke, that doesn’t sound so different from my Renault 4 (I mean, I know it literally does sound very different). The secondary roads I usually drive it on mustn’t be so different from the highway you described; in my weekly 200km round trip there’s even a small section with a…

To be fair, I love shit cars from everywhere. I especially like french cars, and France has produced some world-class shitty ass cars. I choose to daily drive a Renault 4, an objectively shitty old car by every modern standard, instead of a much easier to drive 1998 VW Polo with such futuristic tech as power steering,…

Wow amazing how the prices kept so low for so long (especially when adjusted to inflation, which means they were probably at their cheapest point when I first started looking around). It’s fair to mention I was thinking in Euros, but still, that’s just about $80 more. And at that point there were more €500 garage…

I remember regularly scouring hungarian OLX ads around 2011-2013 after having spent my honeymoon in Budapest and noticing there were still quite a few Eastern Bloc cars driving around (well, more than I was expecting, and two years later when I went back there were noticeably less). I would daydream about the crazy…

I’ve heard a variation of that, which is that older cars that have used mineral oil for a long time shouldn’t switch to synthetic because it will wash away a “protective” mineral oil sludge coating inside the engine and cause residue buildup that could cause damage. No idea if this is bullshit either.

I’d never seen this video. Wholesome content right there.

Pretty sure that’s a Bugatti dude.

Wasn’t it briefly the fastest production sedan in the world? These weren’t officially imported to my domestic market so you couldn’t buy one off the lot, but you could order it in Opel Lotus Omega guise and wait for the next shipment of Opels to arrive. A few people actually did, despite how expensive it was to order…

Wait, the Renault 4 (objectively Best Car Ever according to several me) didn’t make the slideshow but some crappy-ass 3rd gen Clio did? That’s crazy.

You do make a great point that I wasn’t taking into consideration, there is a conflict of interest for those who would want to deny systemic racism because they’re also trying denying police brutality. And of course cops will abuse anyone. But there’s no denying that, at least up until very recently, they seemed to…

Why would it not make the news if it happened? I can think of quite a few news outlets that would pay good money for that kind of footage just so they can eschew the narrative and deny systemic racism and racially motivated police brutality, but somehow those videos never seem to pop up. They don’t even become viral,…

Being visible on google maps is not the same as being there. My Renault Espace is still parked in front of my mom’s in google maps. Sadly, I had to part ways with it almost 6 years ago. I guess it will eventually be gone once new satellite photos are made for that area, but for now it’s still there, at least six years…