Despite the profits Lamborghini is making currently, 7.5 billion dollars is a wild offer for the brand. They're deeply entwined with Volkswagen and going forward, the new company would either need to forge new alliances, or continue to buy Volkswagen tech and refine it...at a cost. That's insane.

Roger, Roger.

Nothing wrong with a Phantom in Green

When the grad students would get punchy studying in the lab around 2AM, we’d wheel our office chairs over to a linoleum hallway and race them. The rules were a little calvinball-ish.

Sometimes the truckers would also tie an onion to their belt, which was the style at the time.

I think it’s from the drivers being underclocked.

All of them?

Meanwhile, in the Jalopnik comments section:

Has to be said:

Even Jay Leno, a guy who likes his cars mostly original, makes an exception when it comes to things like brakes, suspension in some cases and A/C... basically improvements to safety, durability and livability.

Gotta get back on the 3,500 horses

“What state are the dogs in?”

I know zippy about tractors except that I want one. Does JD have a virtual monopoly? Can people shop else ware or does JD have machines that others do not?

Isetta car?

My least favorite trend in interior car design is the “floating tablet”. Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Tesla, etc. have cars that look like someone propped a tablet up in a slot or mounted it on one of those CD slot phone mounts. It looks cheap as hell to me and let’s me know that they are too lazy to figure out how to make a s…

That’s the part that the most horrific. Not even inset into the the dash, just a 2-dimensional screen tacked on behind the steering wheel.

counterpoint: the regulations aren’t being drawn up with stuff like a hellcat in mind at all. they’re being drawn up to cover the 99.99% of cars that aren’t hellcats and the modern muscle cars are just going to be collateral damage. look around in a parking lot. there are an awful lot of V8 powered trucks.

also, read…

To power the cattle prods.

“Hope I’ve got enough film left for the crash” - Aussie ATC are brutal!

I think the ST market went too sporty to its own detriment, then died with the superbike boom. That’s the thing about ADVs, they’re mad comfortable in many of the same ways as baggers and nimble in many of the same ways as sport tourers-but where a sport tourer or a bagger can only go off pavement with serious…