Sorry gents, Cyrillic links end up getting butchered.  Don’t mind the secret KGB spyware, either :P.

It’s Russia. His insurance may not even cover that loss. Hell, the government-set property damage liability limits are 400,000 ($6,230.00) and limits for injury/death are 500,000 rubles ($7,786.71).

I was 16 years old. That kind of money may as well have been a million dollars to me back then. You could say the same thing about nearly every 90s teenager-desirable car. Civic Si, Integra Type R., E30 M3... They were all “affordable” back then. Doesn’t mean every teenager could afford them and doesn’t mean they’re un…

“It’s a 27 year old point-and-steer econobox, like that 1982 Camry they had on here the other day.”

A bunch of these have popped up here in SoCal from time to time, with km/hr speedos and all.  They seem to be on the conforming list, so they let them through.

You are all an embarrassment as Jalops. That is a Zaporozhets 968M.

When Gran Turismo 1 came out in 1998, we were in our senior year in HS and drooled over the P10 belonging to a guy who worked at a bank next door. His was done up in touring car Calsonic livery (but backwards, white car, blue graphics) on some awesome-and-rare-as-hell-at-the-time Volks. We were all in love with this…

I remember running to my friend’s place after school when he got his copy of GT1. We geeked out over all the car choices. I think the first thing we tried was a Mirage Cyborg R or a Starlet Glanza but quickly moved on to a P10 Primera as we were both Primera-obsessed at the time.

I miss the NATTC. Of course no one watched it, and this is why we can’t have nice things.

They say style is cyclical. They are right.

And since we’re talking about 968Ms, my grandpa (above) ended up getting rid of his burgundy 2101 for a free (инвалидный with hand controls) blue 968M which is just barely visible in this pic from approximately 1986 or so, with its hood (trunk? decklid?) open. Taken when my grandpa and sister (pictured) came to visit…

You know, I’ve always wondered why the mirror was missing.  Wipers I knew about, but never mirrors.  Now I know.

“One or two people say that this is the exact [Niva] that their grandfather had.” Another guy was once “almost overwhelmed to tears” by the car.

But that waiver must be granted unless the EPA finds that one of the following applies, per section 209 of the Clean Air Act:

This happens. Years ago, my friends and I had a habit of hanging out late at night in my buddy’s garage, working on cars, shooting the shit, etc. until the early hours of the morning. One day, someone went down to the AM/PM and grabbed a giant cup of soda (think 7-Eleven super-duper big gulp), leaving about 1/4 of it…

The $48k cars weren’t federalized, I don’t think. So the cost of that wasn’t baked into the price. It was just a purchase of a GTR, shipping it here (4 to a 40 foot container) plus some profit baked in. $48k back then is about $68,000 to $69,000 today, btw.

Aside from the crooked trunk script, this is NP for me.

What separates true car spies from ordinary pass-by shooters are escapades that take the spy to the inner sanctums of the automakers. Anyone can stand by the side of the road, paparazzi-style, and take photos of prototypes. That’s a turkey shoot.

You do understand the difference between sedans and wagons, right? That’s the whole point of this article, the “Avant” aspect of it. Now play the same game with performance wagons and see what you get. Hint, it gets a lot more expensive. As an example:

This man knows.  See my comments about my buddy’s 130k x35d X5 elsewhere in this thread.