For what it’s worth, I’m over six foot and had no issues fitting in and driving my friend’s Smart. They’re not bad cars; they just feel like a golfcart with a very confused transmission.

I tried, man, I tried. I even bought a Monaro, new, when they sold them over here as Pontiacs.  My condolences.

First thing that came to mind after seeing the headline:

I got a 5150 on a 2112, I’m following a 1984 yellow Camaro. Suspect looks like a chubby David Lee Roth... scratch that, more like a skinny version of Vince Neil!

Steel Panther is fucking brilliant.

Aw man, I don’t know how to put this to you but. . . this is a case of reality being unrealistic.

You Don’t Mess With the Zohan is very loosely based on a real dude. Replace “Mossad agent” with “soldier,” New York with California, and IIRC, the friends said that Zohan’s exploits with women were actually tame compared…

Somewhere in the mists of Jalopnik history when Ms. Martin ran this feature. I think there was an understood allowance for talk-down but it was maybe 500-ish off the listed price, max.

I think over the years people tend to conflate merely “high” with “crackpipe.” At $5000 for a well-kept Montero with the rare stick,…

I think even the Psychic Friends Network saw the Skyline spike coming. Gran Turismo and TF&TF franchise made every late-birth Gen-Xer/Millenial motorhead positively rigid for this car, myself included. Though, here at big four-zero, I’d be more interested in seeing what parts of the R34 GT-R running gear can grafted…

Sadly, I don’t see the bottom falling out. It’ll come back down a bit after the initial peak but as I think about it, what we’re seeing is probably in part a correction of the GT-R’s value. I’m wagering the prices stayed low due to artificial suppression caused by of the 25-year rule.

Sweet Jesus, they’ve barely released any real detail on the ZX-25r and I want it. I know they’ve said nothing about a US release yet but that massive cat hanging underneath implies they had at least thought about worldwide sales. The CBR250RR is interesting but outside of the more advanced engine management suite I’m…

A whole generation raised on Gran Turismo. Solid racing pedigree and numerous “hero car” appearances in media. Stir in previously forbidden yet now attainable. Late-stage Gen-xers and Millenials with money. Strike match, wait until flame dies. Drink slowly.

There’s a company that already does that, at least with Holden ones. Something-something-GTO-G8-donor-parts-something. I haven’t bothered looking into the legality of it as I’m not in the market.

If that’s the case, we’ve confirmed he cheaped out at a weird place in the build. It still loops back to my question of why, if you’re going to go to all the work and expense to do all those supporting upgrades, would you not spend the coin on a proper stick? I’m with you, it’s making huge power but in for a penny. .…

Oh dear. Denial’s not just a river in Egypt.

“Millennial” refers to the fact the earlier half of the cohort “came of age” just after the turn of the Millennium. What you’re defining as a Millennial is actually Generation Z, which is also a placeholder name, though iGeneration is gaining traction due to the notion they…

I wondered this same thing. It’s strange to me, seeing as the manual transmission is already available, just sitting there in the parts bin. I get the feeling both this and the C8 will end up sprouting a third pedal at some point.

I’m here mainly to keep up with the latest dysentery research.

That’s because it is F-Zero!

Yeah, I’m a bit confuzzled by this build on an existential level. It says “Forged and Balanced LS6 engine” in the ad but, IIRC, everything that makes that engine an LS6 was replaced. I presume he means the internal rotating assemblies are forged and balanced, which mean even if the stock LS6 internals were…

Gen Y are the Millenials; it was a placeholder name.

I still wanna beat the idiot who coined “xennial” to death. It’s fucking lazy, and reeks of self-important smugness. And there was already a much more clever, meaningful name for our interstitial cohort: late-stage gen-Xers/early Millenials are the Oregon Trail…

See, that’s the thing. There is no congestion or impedance on the proper road. There have been no “calming” efforts made because the borough I live in is too small (and the part-time elected officials too old-school) to care. Their attitude is “no shit, people are supposed to go faster over there.”

If there’s one…

I hate those things, too. Don’t forget the “My Daddy works here” ones.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut.....

My frontage is on a secondary street with a 25mph speed limit, on a significant gradient with (heavily-utilized) parking on both sides and a cross street (that I live at the corner of). The rear of my property is serviced by…

Duuude. . .

My driveway is accessed via a back alley with no curbs. My neighbor has watched the borough’s plow truck annihilate the end of my driveway a couple times now. I’m debating sinking a bollard back there when I get around to widening it.