Ternader.

In Concept - Alloy These two STIs look eminently buildable, but nobody in Japan is giving any reason for hope.

This year's Tokyo show, as usual, is packed with concepts that the automakers themselves don't want to turn into production cars. alloymag.com/in-concept/

New Century - Alloy Toyota's plans for a Maybach-style role for its Century sub-brand mostly remind us of two obscure marques.

Sprinkling some skepticism over Toyota's plan for Century as a brand above Lexus, & whether Century matters at all outside Japan.
Mostly, this experiment reminds me of two obscure state limo luxury brands also trapped in their own respective countries & clientele circles.
alloymag.com/new-century/

I will be your guide & chronicler to our Neill Blomkamp future, with occasional looks back to The Before Times.

This week we have launched Alloy.
It will be very different from the modern car news & culture website experience.
Here's what it's all about & what we're gonna do with it: alloymag.com/welcome-to-a...

Almost no point in doing a Halloween post b/c everything is a GD horror in the auto industry at the moment, with Verhoeven/Blomkamp themes overlapping. Still some ways to go before we reach Peak Blomkamp, I keep telling myself.

Increasingly powered solely by cans of Zoa from Costco. Hoping they are not classified as rare earths, as I'm already seeing some shortages.

A few have as at times they sell cars, but most are packed in semi open warehouses & are openly rotting inside & out due to obscene climate (steam, 100+).
So brokers & journos get to see bits of it w/out phones or arent allowed detailed photos.
It’s a lot of ‘90s MB sedans rotting in the heat.

Not sure if more impressed with the working Catera or the working i-MiEV.

On the coast the two choices are fried fish or pizza. All very oily.

::sigh:: Overpriced pizza capital of the US. Otherwise accurate b/c it’s hard to find anything but Italian food.

There’s a DAF museum & service center in southern VT just for you. I know the owner b/c my Volvo is a DAF of sorts. It’s such a pretty town too to visit, esp in the autumn. It’s a very neat museum too with some later Volvos.

As I suspected, it’s way classier than here.

Show us the menu in Italy.

Is it very xennial to regularly think about Anton Chigurh quotes & how they made a lot of sense? Asking for a friend.

People are on gummies.

Living through an era where every business you interact with tries to sign you up for something, sometimes stealthily, is very distressing & is going to have mental health consequences for a generation of older millennials.

Been thinking about The Most Painfully-2010s Movie Moments, & it's a close tie between Miller's planet with knee-deep water, & Littlefinger & Bane talking nonsense at low, room-level voice in a plane with a missing door.

I think Petyr Baelish & Bane might be numero uno in this contest.

I was looking used, small BeeEmmDubyas - now I get ads from Bentley of Greenwich, just in case my price range soared thirtyfold.

If you're shopping for a used car, ::burp:: whatever you do, don't look for it online.
Youtube will serve you up ads for cars and dealerships for months afterward.

Forgot to ask: Did it join the Simeone museum, or does it belong to a Chris Mercon?

Mr. T should be on Mount Rushmore?
I’m out of ideas.

Finally, a correctly-sized Costco truck.
IG: SammietheSambar

Yup, was at one of them a couple days ago.

Def worth a visit, even if a little out of the way for you, along the shoreline.

Few things make me feel as old as seeing a C/D comparison test from the year I graduated high school.
www.caranddriver.com/reviews/comp...

Having trouble seeing these on the road when they turn a decade old.
www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a629...

Guise, this is a hundred grand. What are we doing here?

www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a660...

The 1990 version of this headline is "What if Your Burning Land Rover Could Eject Its Engine?"

www.caranddriver.com/news/a680419...

Once a week I quietly sigh & mentally thank Neill Blomkamp for showing us our future.