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Patrick Frawley
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Given the man’s age and country of origin, this is not that much of a surprise. I mean, this was their thing.

Probably 1998. Crossing northern Indiana on Route 20 headed west. I’m in my beloved Audi Coupe GT, Dad following in his Saturn SC2. Average day, high clouds, no precip, perfect visibility. Read more

It was the first real return on a “Niger Bugatti” search but yeah, kinda picked that discrepancy up as I was rereading it. (Also: Lagos.) Still think that was the reason, though. Read more

Thinking that Niger’s, um, anomalous result is less about car shopping and more about public interest in this: Read more

Algeria was a French colony until not too terribly long ago. Would make sense that there’s still a lot of association between the two for trade and so on. Read more

Are we sure that Belize is looking for the automaker and not the indigenous large cat? Read more

Downsized Dodge Mirada with a fancy-ass wraparound rear window that was left in the sun a little too long.

Who’s worried about likelihood? We’ve got the Book of Revelation up there. Read more

Conventional war with China is way up there. Not sure how it would keep from spiraling into a nuclear exchange, but lots of potential in a “Red Dawn”-style invasion and guerrilla resistance. Take to the hills, live off the land (or however many packets of ramen noodles and Clif bars you could tote along), do the Read more

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If you buy it, you have to promise to give ex-EIC Travis Okulski free taxi rides for life.

Even though he’s off the ballot this year, I’m still burning incense and making offerings for Alan Trammell. Read more

I think it did turn out to be slightly larger than many of us expected - those Aston Martin Vantage-clone renderings were just too good - but it was never going to be that small again. Even going Fox-sized is probably unreasonable at this point. Maybe we’ll get a change on the order of what the Camaro just went Read more