I never expected that NASCAR would take the lead in all of sports right now in addressing this issue and moment.

This is EXACTLY the first thing I thought of too!  This is very much a fight or flight situation and if you have what looks like an angry mob surrounding your car (especially one that was breaking windows with hammers and skateboards like they just did in California) I wouldn’t fault anyone for fearing for their life…

If there’s one tactic I don’t like from the recent protests and past ones within the last decade it’s taking over roads and especially highways without any prior notice or at least some awareness from police. A crowd slowly marching on city streets through major business or shopping districts or to logical meeting…

Exactly. It’s not enough to just say “Come race and do burnouts here instead of on a public street”, you have to have liability insurance and fire and safety crews. Otherwise the city is just asking for lawsuits for wrongful death, injury, or property damage.

Very sad to hear of his passing. About 13 or 14 years ago he was a guest speaker for the Industrial Design Society of America in Chicago and I was one of a handful of fortunate people who were lingering after the talk who were invited to join him at his hotel bar for a drink afterwards. Syd was very warm and friendly…

Very sad to hear this. I’ll never forget the night I saw Syd do a guest speaker engagement for the Industrial Design Society of America in Chicago and I was one of a handful of fortunate people to be invited to join him at his hotel bar afterwards for a drink. He was very warm and friendly and it was spellbinding to…

Go put yourself on the wait list for that "Mustang" Mach-E then.

If you put enough Ohio accent on it it sounds like you are saying “My Lawn”. LOL

Can we give this COTD? That’s my biggest beef with modern day trucks. They went from being used for real WORK to being insanely expensive quad cab short box lifestyle accessories.

You didn’t really live in the 90's if you weren’t crammed in the back of a Ranger or an S-10 sitting on one of these horrible jump seats as a child or teenager.

I may or may not have used $1,500 of student loan “grant money” as my down payment for a car the summer after I graduated high school. Yes that’s pretty stupid but at the time I was attending a dirt cheap community college and my summer job covered tuition by the fall.

Great idea! In Gladstone instead of purposely putting a car on the ice and taking bets on when it will sink the end of ice fishing season is usually officially marked be some schmuck driving out onto the ice in his truck and breaking through. Then the word is spread and no one else drives out on it. LOL This is…

My car has bluetooth so I pretty much have no use for CDs anymore other then the slot on my radio is a convenient place for my phone holding clip.

However, a year after I bought it I stopped at The Yooper Tourist Trap in Negaunee and bought a Da Yooper’s CD with this on it.  4 or 5 times a year I feel the urge to…

Whether or not we should be, the UP is most definitely THE REAL Northern Michigan.  When I lived down state I rolled my eyes every time I heard one of you Trolls say “I’m going up North this weekend.”  I’d reply, “Oh yeah? Where?” thinking I was talking to a fellow Yooper.  Then they’d say “Traverse City.”  The state…

Only if it’s a decrepit half rusted out Jeep.

Agreed.  Most important tip I ever got about photographing cars.  The only crappy thing is I take 4-5 shots of every car now. 

The reality is that most people who don’t think about cars just don’t think about them AT ALL. If they have any shred of ego or personality that they ascribe to the car they drive it’s some kind of lifestyle or image justification. That they NEED a loaded 4x4 quad cab truck when they maybe pull a boat with it, or take…

enthusiast thusiast cars are “too heavy”. This one isn’t. Gotta pick your poison.

CUV/SUV owners with multiple children who have every justifiable reason to own a minivan won’t because they have the absurd fear of driving anything that looks like the dreaded “family car”.

Agreed. I get it, the goal of every business is to be successful and grow but the appeal of BaT was the in it’s origin was that they were showcasing affordable “man if I just had the space and/or money I’d buy that” project cars.