haha

This is one of the reasons I kinda hate Top Gear. They’ve confessed to rigging the Reliant for that segment years ago, but what stuck forever in collective memory was the narrative that the Reliant 3-wheelers would tip over doing trivial turns.

Do phones automatically correct Duel with Dual? I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen Duel - the film referred to as Dual.

Uh, you seem to be confusing scary with fun. The rust isn’t their fault, they’re holding up just fine this side of the pond. I think you guys have a real problem with road salt. You have rust like I’ve never seen anywhere else, not even in cars that spend 3+ decades outside by the beach.

No, you’re correct, the body style is in fact Shooting Brake. I’m assuming in this case Break is the name used by the coach builder, since it’s how I’ve always seen this particular one being referred to. The station wagon/estate body style is known as break in France, and Rolls-Royce always had a thing for stupid…

Well, late to the party, but here it goes: John Entwistle’s brown, coachbuilt Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II “Shooting Break” (I know it’s a station wagon, but since it was built specifically to go hunting, they called it Shooting Break). I’m not really into hunting, golden accents or The Who, but dear god, look at this…

How people still try to make the point that he didn’t share responsibility for the tragedy is beyond my comprehension. I’ve been at many shows with violent mosh pits and every single time things started to get ugly the artists literally stopped the show and got the crowd under control. It’s a very normal occurrence…

Hah, great point. Although in this case it’s a direct quote, so there’s a decent chance the local resident quoted here is to one to blame for that. I don’t know, if it was me writing an article and I had to use that quote, I’d have to use “[sic]” after “$8,000".

Yup, this car would’ve been 3 years old at most when it was buried. It has to be a typo.

New ones started at slightly more than $80K, and this was at most a 3 year old car when the supposed insurance scam happened - one that didn’t depreciate much over that period of time - so it has to be a typo, right?

But that doesn’t make any sense, they’re talking about an insurance scam (alleged) that happened in 1992. Current value is irrelevant to the story.

The car was buried in ‘92, what it’s worth now is irrelevant. The alleged insurance scam happened three decades ago - allegedly. It’s what it was worth then that matters

This has to be either a joke to a typo, right? Did you mean $80.000?

Thanks for this. The idea that the compensation amount can influence a jury’s decision tells you how much people have no idea how the judicial system works. The jury is there to evaluate evidence and testimony, and deliberate upon that whether they find the defendant guilty or not. The amount the defendant will have…

This paragraph reads like a review of my Renault 4 (also built in Yugoslavia). Change that horsepower figure to 34 and curb weight to 1,600 pounds, replace the word “Yugo” with “Renault”, and you have a review of a 1991 GTL in 2022.

Well, according to you I am not, since I agre with the general points being made.

I was just reading about this, what a strange marketing strategy. I get that companies like to jump on the retro-styling-for-young-people bandwagon but turning it into a cross-corporation sub-brand seems to fundamentally miss the point about this kind of strategy, which usually attempts some semblance of uniqueness…

What a fantastic car. JDM cars are the biggest act of trolling Japan keeps pulling on the rest of the world. “Yeah, it’s cool. No you can’t have it.”

Hah that would be awesome if it turned out to be something like that! I think there’s a good chance it’s actually a couple of Cybertruck bodies, that bit of fabric hanging in the rear seems to match the small bed opening. But again, this could just as easily be a prank or - more likely, in my opinion - a way to pump…