Read my mind. Although McQueen’s love interest in the movie was a Porsche, and this chunky guy appears to be sporting a Porsche badge, so maybe it’s their less athletic offspring? Maybe it’s an awkward phase, his exhaust note will deepen and he’ll turn into a Cayman some day.

Yes, If I remember correctly, it has the most makers & models in the developed world. The reason? Primarily it is a great test market for new entries into car making such as Japan, Korea, India, Malaysia & now China. You can work out what sells in the west and how to run national dealer networks without spending a…

Joe Hockey, and don’t.. he’s a bit of a cunt

My Costco’s soda fountain is all Pepsi products, so I’d rather drink a hobo’s urine, thank you very much.

So we meet again, my old nemesis.

Now, a gallon of gasoline cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you’d say.

Based on data from Toyota Global Newsroom, the new 2.0L engine should have 32 more ponies, and 26 more torques than the 1.8L that is in the current iM. Peak power and torque come higher up in the revs too, so hopefully its a mill that encourages wringing it out a bit! And based on interior pics I’ve seen, there is a…

The odometer was invented by Mr. Odo.

Against no odds. The British always had the best looking railway locomotives, aeroplanes, bikes, trams, machine tools, and so forth. I get the feeling that other countries advanced *despite* the Industrial Revolution; the British being the originators, embraced it wholeheartedly at all levels of society.

FAKE NEWS TORCH! Everbody knows Doctor Who drives a London Police Box not an F40, can’t believe you got hoodwinked like that.

The Buick Roadmaster proves that the rear-wheel drive wagon we desire was in our hearts all along.

Reminds me of this.

Thats when you email back and say that you can’t come in to get a price quote on privacy concerns. Once they have seen your face they know who you are and can leverage that information to their advantage and that you aren’t falling for their ruse.

I have an 80 and whenever I get off a trail I’ve been on for days and back onto the road I think “now we find out how badly I’ve ruined things”. Never had to tighten a bolt, never had any suspension issues, no new rattled. its pretty amazing for coming up on 300,000 miles.

I would think so. Police cars are pretty much the only commercial vehicle I’ve not seen here in the Nordics from Mercedes, but they dominate the taxi market (45% share), ambulances are pretty much nothing than Mercedes, fire trucks, garbage trucks and whatnot.

They’re getting more common, mostly with farmers and I saw a couple on the 4x4 tracks around Victoria (Baw Baw National Park & Lake Eildon)

he ... served in the military.

Crown Land is largely just an old traditional name for public lands in general though it’s still constitutionally tied to the Crown though the Crown gets no say in it.

That we are

Hey man, we’re all like made of stardust.