If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know the Koenigsegg CCX is my all-time favorite car, above anything else. I nearly cried when I saw the picture above.

A dealer in New York decided it would be a good idea to take one of his customer’s cars for a spin around town. The half-million dollar 2008 Koenigsegg CCX isn’t your typical car, with only around 25 made per year worldwide, so when this guy crashed it into a guardrail taking out a Porsche GT2 in the process, I couldn’t imagine how he was feeling.

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Looks like it’s one of those good news bad news things from NHTSA. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (the people that keep track of accidents and crash test cars) have just released a new study showing that there are fewer drunks on the roads these days (yay!) but strangely enough, over 16 percent of drivers on the roads at night are on some sort of drug (wha?).

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You know, ubiquitous, cheap computing has made being a gearhaed much easier than what it used to be. We can plan routes, look up part numbers for that under-dash support for that 66 Mustang we’re rebuilding, check where speed traps are… there’s a whole host of things the gearhead can make use of in the cyber-world.

That doesn’t mean it’s all buttered toast and fine-&-dandy, oh no.

Just ask Lee Harbert of San Francisco.

Who’s Lee Harbert? You’ll see.
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Guess this guy didn’t quite understand how brakes work. You probably shouldn’t be trying to customize your car if you have no idea what you’re doing.

The sad part is, these probably still worked after unsticking them for the first or second time.

“It comes to a point where there are certain things you just can’t do. And putting testicles on the back of a truck is just too much.”

Thus spake Lionell Spruill, Virginia lawmaker who wants to ban Truck Nuts.

And who am I to argue …

Of course, when you start talking about legislating what’s in good taste, that’s when I reach for my revolver. Considering what some lawmakers deem aesthetically pleasing (honestly, have you ever heard The Singing Senators?), this seems like the top of a slippery slope that ends up in Beigetown with mandatory pictures of big-eyed puppies and sad clowns in every home.

Yeah, look, I get it … these things are about as pointless on every level imaginable as you can get, and their only redeeming qualities is that they make morons more easy to spot at a distance, but if you start banning things like this, next thing you know, they’ll start talking about how that rock and roll is the devil’s music and has to go.

From the files of the obvious, comes word of a new study that points out that driving in traffic and talking on a cell phone makes you drive slower.

Well duh!

Psychology professor David Strayer, at the University of Utah says that drivers on the phone tend to cruise “about 2 miles-per-hour slower on commuter-clogged roads than people not on the phone, and they just don’t keep up with the flow of traffic.”

Yes, some have pointed out some flaws in the methodology, but still, doesn’t this seem kind of obvious?

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: You are in a car, drive it!

You’re not in a phone booth, you’re not in a beauty parlor, you’re not in a diner. You’re in a frickin’ car! Drive it!