By Weston Henderson

Weston Henderson

I was cruising through VW Vortex and found an awesome post that I just had to share with you guys: another revolutionary use for the ever-popular Snuggie, and this one lets you combine your two favorite things–laziness, and cars!

I don’t know about you, but I personally can’t stand the chill of getting out of bed in the morning. But now, I can take my bedding with me. This is totally going to be the Next Big Thing: Snuggie-while-driving will sweep the nation, like UGG boots, or like when Kris Kross wore their pants backwards for the first time. Autoblog and their buddies at MotherProof are clearly out of touch with today’s enthusiast culture on this one. Let me say it again: YOU NEVER HAVE TO LEAVE YOUR BLANKET. Like, when you’re sitting on the couch and you need to drive to the store for some more Cheetos or mayonaise? It no longer has to be a chore, and you can look ultra-cool doing it. I already ordered two so I can be Snuggie on both sides!

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

I can’t even hope to do justice to this ad, so I’ll just re-post it in its original Engrish. It’s been flagged for removal from Craigslist, but you can still get the full text below the jump. I wonder if the seller is surprised he’s not getting his $6500 asking price, considering the speakers make weird Satanic backwards-mumbling sounds, the car moves itself after being parked, the mirrors readjust themselves in an effort to cause an accident, and specters with glowing red eyes appear in and around the car when it’s left overnight. Sign me up!

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By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Just when you thought today’s cars couldn’t be any more stuffed with airbags, Toyota will be pioneering the first standard backseat jiffypops in one of its smallest vehicles. The JDM version of the iQ will have a central air bag between the rear passengers in what would normally be the middle seat–preventing the kids from knocking into each other during a side collision.  It seems safety’s come a long way since the good old days when my dad strapped my little sister and I into a single seatbelt because his GTO had no rear seat! More at Autopia.

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

I’ve just emerged from that brain-melting oblivion as “choosing a Caption Contest winner,” and here’s what I came back with: “I’m NOT asleep…I’m just resting my wheels.” Good one, fatratmatt! Honorable mentions to NSGrandAm and 08iSt, who each took another opportunity to make fun of Weston’s “parking cool” blog–pretty hilarious when it’s applied to a car on its side. Nice work all around!

Stay tuned for another installment in our hellishly popular Caption Contest!

By David Clarke

highspeedhijinks

It must be liquidation time for the movie studios, because there’s been a lot of obscure movie cars showing up for sale lately, from the Animal House Death Mobile to the recently blogged Lord Humongous-mobile. This movie ride is much more tame but probably just as infamous. The 1946 Ford convertible that Biff Tannen drove in the first and second Back to the Future movies got quite a bit of screen time that ended in a pretty crappy way (“Manure… I hate manure!!”). While there’s no word on whether this was the car used for the infamous shot, it comes with documented proof that Universal Studios did once own it. The only real sad thing about this car is that, like a lot of movie cars, it’s been cut up to play the part. The convertible was once a coupe and so there is no folding top, just a boot to cover the hacked sheet metal. Hack-job aside, I actually don’t think the asking price of 20k is all that unreasonable considering the freshly-rebuilt flathead V8 and the acting chops that go with it.

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

CarDomain World Headquarters is moving! The only problem: our new digs are located in an artsy-folksy neighborhood where people hate cars. Look what they did to this Honda just a couple of weeks ago. This is the kind of place where residents form coalitions to replace valuable parking real estate with bicycle lanes, and other such nonsense. And if they’re willing to throw an inoffensive Honda under the Honeybucket, imagine what they’re going to do to Weston’s GTI.  Hmm, we’re going to have to figure out what to do with our cars–and I predict some blogworthy confrontations with the locals in the near future. On the upshot, our landlord is a total gearhead and will surely prove to be a valuable ally. More soon!

By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

The 2009  American Le Mans Series  season kicks off this weekend at Sebring in Florida. And as you may have noticed, we are big fans of the ALMS here at Speedhunters! We have John Brooks out in his natural habitat, at the track, so stay tuned for more images and stories over the next few days, and check out the ALMS articles we’ve already posted this month. We’ve also introduced highly respected Sportscar author Janos Wimpffen to Speedhunters this week. Watch for his stuff!

Back to the present: time to refresh everyone’s memory on the ALMS and introduce you to the Class of 2009. More…

-By Andy Blackmore

By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

Admit it, you’ve been mowing your grass, buzzing along in fourth gear on your lawn tractor and clipping apexes around your house. If you’re like us, you don’t have a drink holder on your lawn tractor, but you do have a straight pipe and the governor has been disabled.

Turn your racing fantasies into reality in the world of the USLMRA! We’ve seen these lunatics on ESPN and it looks like insane amounts of fun. The race schedule seems to favor the Midwestern section of the country, but we bet there are local series all over the country.

Make no mistake about it, these guys are racers. The lawn tractors are heavily modified to greatly increase their ability to corner and achieve death defying speeds.

Hit the website and start plotting on how to chop and cut your current mower into a racing machine!

By Chris Bicknell

Bick66

Check out this video from Jay’s Garage on the 257-mph SSC Ultimate Aero. I’m proud to say that this American-made supercar holds the current Guinness world record for being the fastest production car ever built. The best part is that there just happens to be one for sale on eBay–anyone interested?

Watch the video here, check out the auction here, and follow the jump for more pics of this incredible machine.

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By Katherine Helmetag

Atomicalex

It took me a minute to get the funny in this captioned pic from VWVortex member VWWestlife. Then I LOL’d. How can you possibly not anthropomorphize these two all-too-expressive Mazda faces? The wrinkled up nose on the 3 on the left cracks me up. Add some white paint to the grille bar on the right, and you don’t even need Disney!