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Brendan
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Ludicrous misuse of the language. Bylines at Car and Driver, Road and Track, Hagerty, Autocar, Driving.ca, etc
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For any new followers, this is the sort of thing I like to do:

www.autoweek.com/car-life/cla...
What a machine.
November 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
It’s Sunday morning at the Church of the Blue Oval.
November 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A shout out from Ken! @tamerlaneblog.bsky.social hath been anointed! Anyway, I look forward to your guest hosting.
Sorry to miss you. :(
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This is nothing. A local elementary school had a plastic slide that was aimed wrong. As any parent knows, a kindergartner in a wet Muddy Buddy is basically teflon-coated, and kids were getting fired into the parking lot like Maggie Simpson star-shaped shurikens.
I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point
November 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I follow a bunch of old school, retired Japanese autojournos. Never fails to be delightful.
November 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Something fun I learned recently is that the front end on this car is the work of Detroit-based hot-riders, not SoCal. Same guys did the Dodge Deora.
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

(Obviously I had to)
November 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I remember seeing May in a Zoom interview (or similar) and behind him was a framed single cel of Tombo from Kiki's Delivery Service, and I was like Well Of Course There Is.
just getting around to watching this and it would appear that James May's lock screen is a picture of a kitty cat 😻
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Right. You've now all had a chance to air your Opinions about the new Prelude. Time to get back to more productive fare, like posting French cars.
November 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Cat: cat break

Not now I’m

Cat: CAT BREAK
November 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
A second Ferrari-engined Subaru has entered the chat
Starting off #SEMA day 2 with a lot of good choices rolled into a single vehicle #weirdcarbs #carspotting
November 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Figaros and Paos everywhere, but you hardly ever see these. They are such an important little car in Nissan design history.
good morning and happy Kyusha Wednesday: I haven’t come across too many Be-1s with three pedals in my journey and this one might be the cleanest one left on earth

www.carsensor.net/usedcar/deta...
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Reposted by Brendan
What I thinking about when she asks me "what are you thinking about?"
November 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Adjusted for inflation, the WRX is actually cheaper than the original was in 2002. The problem is that the car was a bargain in its previous generation. The other issue is that Subaru sold 84 Crosstreks in the time it took you to read these three sentences.
November 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
As if practically everybody going to the JMS wasn't giving me enough FOMO, a friend from the local Citroen club is also there hanging out with the Japanese French car club and driving vintage 2CVs around Tokyo at night.
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
*googling* how to reset daylight savings settings cat
November 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Wraps are off.
November 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
A few months ago, I called up this fellow on a tip that he knew a little bit about Olds Aerotech history. "Oh," he said, "Yes, I own those."

Click through for some incredible pictures of his find.

www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/...
November 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Something pretty cool is publishing at noon. Stand by.
November 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Halloween dress-up: haha yes am suuuper Sweedish I yam a Saaab
October 31, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This reminds me of an old joke. Irishman coming home from the pub, pockets full of bottles. Falls over the curb, hits the pavement, sits up and pats a damp patch on his coat.

"Ah, thanks be. 'Tis only blood."
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
cbsn.ws
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Good morning. Christine (1983) features a cursed 1958 Fury.

If remade today, the haunted car would be a red 2000 Plymouth Breeze.
October 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
October 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Very late QOTD. What recent car are you desperate to drive? Me? Alpine A110.
October 31, 2025 at 2:45 AM
At this rate, someone is going to give the Pope a Glasgow Rangers jersey.
Being Pope means just receiving baseball jerseys all day long of teams he hates
October 31, 2025 at 2:40 AM