House rules said that if you crossed the centerline in front of the other car you were DQ'ed, but if you were behind the other car and crossed center you were not DQ'ed.

We could always dredge out Lake Michigan a little more...

Yeah, I'm just sitting here laughing my ass off. And shortly I plan to GTFO of work and drive home. Unfortunately I don't really have anything impressive to stare at, so I'll probably just resort to watching the road.

Hear hear! Can I get a harumph?

Of course in Michigan the guy would be staring at his crotch so that the cops couldn't tell he was texting and driving.

Easier to protect something from rain and road spray than it is to protect it from immersion. I believe the batteries are usually down in the running boards & all the lighting looks to be under water. An enclosure doesn't have to be watertight to protect from spray, but it would have to be to protect from immersion.

Kind of guessing off the width of the crosswalk & stop stripe, the wheelbase looks like ~9' (108").

Something like that. Sir Halffast posted it in a thread here [jalopnik.com] recently, and that thread linked to an older Jalopnik thread here [jalopnik.com].

I've read this three times now and I still laugh when I scroll past.

I'm deleting this for now. I'm curious to see what Lisa's answer is to this one.

I cheated, I was surfing in another tab.

Welded diff huh?

I'm just going to leave this here. For anyone who actually made it through that whole rambling incoherent mess, go have a cold beverage of your choice, you earned it.

I've got to ask, how? I made it all of 1:49 in, but that was while surfing the rest of the internets in another tab.

Bush car. Take a car, find a logging road, drive it as far and/or fast as you can. Bonus points if you don't have a backup plan for getting out of the bush when you're done.

Whew. I thought it was bad of me to find that funny. Might still be, but at least I'm not the only one.

Part of the reason that I used the F150 is that I recently purchased one. The other reason is that it is one of the most common vehicles purchased in the U.S., and was actually the best selling vehicle in America for ~20 years. It is only very recently that a car has sold better than a truck here.

Wow, thats a lot of taxes. Last year I bought a new F150. It was $42k (~€32k) and I paid $2520 (~€1900) in sales taxes.

How much of a purchase price of a car is taxes for you? It is my understanding that in Europe you pay 20%+ in VAT plus some pretty steep taxes added on based on engine displacement (depending on the country). In the US you generally pay state sales tax (~4%-6% or so) and that is it. Though there may be some areas…

Yeah, but shes a hot Romanian. And us ignorant Americans don't care even if we know better.