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NASCAR driver Kyle Busch, who is currently third in the Sprint Cup standings, was charged with reckless driving this afternoon for driving 128 mph in a 45 mph zone in what's being described as a "yellow Lexus sports car." Ahem, Lexus LFA. Update!. More »
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After seeing a 1981 Fiat Strada as today's Down On The Street car, it seems only right that we should see an ad for its European sibling, the Fiat Ritmo. Naturally, car buyers of the time were eager to buy vehicles made by Italian robots, and who can blame them? More »
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The '38 Graham-Paige did a number on the '38 Mercedes-Benz in yesterday's Choose Your Eternity poll, similar to Marshal Zhukov's number on Berlin (and our poll would have been even more one-sided if we'd stacked a Pobeda against the Benz). Today I feel like returning to the perennial struggle between PCH Superpowers Italy and France, because a Project Car Hell without one of the Superpowers is like knuckles without fresh scabs. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=366976&view=rss&microfeed=true Let's say you're Enzo Ferrari and it's the early 1970s. What are you going to drive? Well, you could go down to the factory and pick out a nice Daytona... or you could pay homage to your Fiat overlords and get a buzzy little 128. This ad makes it clear that Enzo, like Flava Flav, knew what time it was! More »
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