The Telegraph and Daily Mail exaggerated/lied/sought drama? Say it aint so.

In other words: Tabloid-esc "news sources" made up bullshit, fear mongering, drivel about impossible law to sell papers/get ratings. Yellow journalism at its finest, William Randolph Hearst would be proud.

Funny, this is the first I'd heard about it.

You know why? Because the Torygraph and Daily Fail aren't newspapers, and haven't been for a very long time. Instead they are propaganda mouthpieces for the right wing, and regularly spew out whatever their masters demand.

As it happens in the UK at the moment the EU has…

The better article would be how Reagan knew all about the F-117, and continued to pummel Carter about being weak on defense because he would not build the B-1 bomber. Sounds trite now, but it was a huge issue during the 1980 presidential campaign.

So basically Thatcher and Reagan could be very well responsible for Colin Chapman's death. Man, what has been thought cannot be unthought.

Thatcher was evil enough and Reagan dumb enough to follow through. None the less, I think the American automakers were failing to compete with their Japanese rivals in the 1980s.

An MBG with the Rover nee Buick 3.5 liter/215 CID V8. MOAR POWAH of course, but a good 50 lbs lighter than the four cylinder cast iron lump it replaces. It's a fairly common swap but it works really REALLY well. And makes the car go like unholy stink...a guy here did it with B-GT and a little bit of camshaft...the…

Triumph. Where is a Triumph? IF you want looks faster and feels faster than it is, a TR6. If you hate safety and like to be invisible, a Spitfire, which has the added benefit of being much faster than expected. As to reliability, I've had 47k miles in my Spitfire since March 2010 with only a few problems, like the…

As epically obnoxious as the Prius lady is, she's just being aggressively annoying. She's not actually endangering someone's life like the Russian BMW driver who knocks over that biker, Transporter Wannabe or those freeway shenanigans, Gallardos, Camry, etc. For obnoxiousness, I would rank wanton risk of life and limb…

I understand that this is a car blog and that you cover all aspects of car culture, but I kinda think that this is one of the few things that is better left unpublicized. Internet fame is all these jackasses are after, and any mention of them (even when followed by stern warnings that what they did is stupid and no…

This is stupid and dangerous, and no one should try to get their time down to 20 minutes or less. And they certainly shouldn't POST THE VIDEO of them doing it. Nobody here would be interested in watching such a dangerous activity. Clearly WE don't WANT TO SEE IT.

So, Jalopnik is giving publicity to the same type of off-track ass-hattery we all complain about when an accident happens?

Fuck these people. I don't care who you fucking are, but putting innocent lives at risk is stupid. Fuck these people. Fuck Alex Roy for setting the standard for people like this guy.

I hope this driver winds up in the custody of the department of corrections.

Unfortunately the only comment on the herpes question is the one where everyone is feeding the troll, so I have to start a new one which won't get seen because I am always in the gray. Hopefully it helps someone though.

It's not a minivan, it's a four-wheeled dream.

I was reading this and picturing...complete with accent.

Princess Anne had one of those, you know.

It's not only one the best fiberglass cars, but a revolution of fiberglass cars. This proved fiberglass was a viable material to build a car out of, and even today Lotus still uses FG on the Elise and Exige, with bits of carbon fiber.

Delta. It's October, 2011 and the airlines have just started flying after 9/11. I have to go to NY from Ft. Lauderdale. There are two lines for security: those with carry-ons and those without (they apparently stopped this practice pronto). The line for "with" was two hours long. There was no line for "without".