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MSIMA Gets Ripped Off at the 2025 Miami Concours
In the wake of the most recent Epstein file release, we now have a glimpse of what it’s like to be a victim of the wealthy aristocrat lifestyle before they are taken to the island.
Three Mis-Shift certified Assholes ventured into the hellish depths of the Miami Concours with the goal of having a swell ol’ time (and finally getting to be up close with an Aston Martin Valkyrie). Instead, they were reminded why Miami fucking sucks. These, dear consumer of automotive content, are their testimonies:
A cool view, but one we couldn’t actually access… Double-A:
We are at a time where a car show is pay to enter to see the cars you can see on a Thursday in a Lamborghini dealership demo lot but pay over $1000 more to see the cars you actually came to see that are unique to the event. It was pathetic. WE DONT WANT TO SEE TEMERARIOS AND URUS S MODELS FOR 88 DOLLARS PLUS PARKING FEES.
Also before this gets too ranty, THE BOX OFFICE TO PICK UP THESE DAMN TICKETS OPENED AT 10 AND THE GATES OPENED A WHOLE HOUR LATER AND THEY JUST KEPT YELLING AT US WE COULDNT GO IN AS WE WERE WALKING AROUND MINDING OUR OWN BUSINESS WATCHING PEOPLE INSIDE LOOK AT THE CARS WE WANTED TO SEE BUT LITTLE DID WE KNOW THAT WAS THE CLOSEST WE WERE CONNA GET TO THEM.
Stupid Miami bullshit, go visit a dealership for free and take a bottle of water, you will get 1000% more value that the sad excuse of a car show this is, with a fucking paywall. Fuck you Miami concours.
Best car was the clapped out wide body 2019 chevy impala street parked outside
They let 2 base C8 Corvettes into the show, says everything u gotta know. I’m so mad I don’t even have jokes to crack.
Pimpmasta:
Honestly, my homeboys summed this event up pretty well, and there ain’t no point in woopin a dead horse. I’ll stick to yappin bout what caught my attention. Believe it or not, Pimp’s got a soft spot for Paganis, but who doesn’t. The turnout from that brand was signifigant, baller, and memorable. Lots of nicely specced Huyras and the like. Also that concept Cobra thing was there, I ‘member that car from when I was just a jit on the block. Then we had the German sounding ford-GT look alike with a guy in a cowboy hat next to it. Kinda pimp in an old school western way I suppose. I ain’t gonna lie, not much else I could say, I don’t like wasting 80 dollars just to be told a lie (I’m not VIP enough).
Monty:
What in the ever-living-fuck did I pay for? I get that $83 isn’t that much. Buts it’s not $20 either. “The red carpet experience” yeah blow me. So it turns out that 2026 was the first time this was ticketed event. Why’d they do it? Well, in the past few years, given the rise in popularity, the free event has become waaaay too crowded. So fuck it, charge $80 I guess. You’ll either control the crowd or make bank. Or both. I’d say that the past events have been to provided me with $80 worth of good memories. But that overcrowding nonsense isn’t the official statement given by the organizers. They say it’s all to “enable a better experience” or some shit.
Really? A better experience with like half the cars as before, rude staff, a cramped venue, and nearly all the big headline cars locked away in the VIP Experience paywall of $982. Let’s round that to $1000 for the sake of simplicity eh?
If the organizers couldn’t get the year right (2025), I’m not going to bother rotating this… All but one car from Glickenhaus, all the Valkyries, the Evija, the Valhalla, an MC12, a Zonda, and the newest Koenigseggs, all tucked away in the “VIP Club”, sectioned off with overgrown plant walls and guarded by security staff who look at you funny when you get close to the hedge to peak over.
The message is clear, we don’t want you. I’m apparently too poor to go look at some fucking cars. Cars that were advertised as the star attractions!
“Elite networking”, whatever that means…. That jumble of words presented above describes what they claim to be the main events of the Sunday show. And it might as well have not even happened, because we couldn’t access it. Does it say that I’d have to shell out a grand to have the privilege of sharing the same air as Mr. Koenigsegg himself? No, and fuck off with your gate keeping.
If you look closely, an disinterested Mr. Koenigsegg appears Charge an entry fee, fine, but make the show worth it. It was cool to see some Paganis and a few older Koenigseggs and meet Mr. Glickenhaus himself (who seemed to have spent all day outside of the VIP bubble taking photos and interacting with the “uncouth masses”), but the “show” lacked serious volume this year. Half of what showed up was just excess inventory from Lamborghini of Miami, followed by Curated, Prestige Imports, and I take it also Pagani of Miami and Koenigsegg/Buggati/Lamborghini of West Broward. If you’re not from south Florida these might not mean much to you. But almost all of these are places you can walk into for free, look at cars, get to know the people who are working them and selling them, get as close as you want – hell we even sat in a few when we visited these places.
“Oh but they can show off their most special collection prices and”– Curated had a CLK GTR, and I’m willing to bet my $83 that had it shown up, it would’ve been locked away behind the palm frond paywall.
Don’t get your hopes up, these are the only two classic Ferraris this “automotive concours” event could muster up. Still pretty. Now, I know that “VIP Experience” or whatever is more than just the cars. But it’s the principle of the damn thing to advertise the main event online and lock the ability to look at something behind a meaningless paywall to make fragile egos feel special. Mind you, locking the cars away in “the VIP Club” wasn’t how this event operated until last year. This is the 9th year of the concours.
If this is what the modern high performance car community is like, I don’t want to a part of this bullshit. I don’t particularly care to be treated like I’m a peasant moron who needs to just be #blessed to grab that social media post with twenty other people of the same Lamborghini Revuelto I could just visit a dealer to sit in instead. I know this all seems trivial, because it more or less is in the grand scheme of things. But if you’re from the Palm Beach – Broward – Miami-Dade area, save your time and money and just go visit a dealer or large show (like supercar Saturdays or cars & coffee) instead of this shit.
For those interested, the valkyries are on the opposite side, where canvas walls shield them from “the pedestrian gaze”. But hey, you could be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a front wheel arch from 50ft away! Rant over, I’m gonna go finish up a car review that’ll make me feel better. Nothing pisses me off more in the car world than pretentious dickheads, especially gate keeping ones.
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The tragic comedy of the PONTIAC GTO
ITS GOT AN LS BRO IT’LL BE RELIABLE BRO: the devious general motors electronic control unit looking me in the eyes.
So there I was, an unwise teenager who thought I NEEEEEDED to have at least 400hp and willing to sacrifice anything to get that treasured 400 under 10 grand. Boy was I in for a mistake. This heap of shit forced me to learn how to work on cars regardless of me being a soft handed libtard going to college instead of being a real man and working in the coal mines. THE only thing worse than the coal mines is trying to diagnose electrical issues on your 160k mile pontiac. They told me it would be reliable, its got an LS. Well you see thats the falacy of general motors. Sure you dont have consumable rod bearings (BMW) or engine out AC compressor jobs (hi Audi owners). But you do have the quality control of a drunk mid westerner who knows he’s on the next list of lay offs. Or a drunk austrailian, who knows with the once right hand drive Holden product. GM probably lost the paperwork of the guy who built it when they went bankrupt.
You see in the great falacy of the 400 hp car under 10 grand you get lead to one sad conclusion. You are buying a horrifically depreciated and 100% service record free german thing of your choice, or you are buying the most clapped out C5/GTO/Mustang 5.0 on marketplace. Being the reckless fool that I was, I headed to baltimore from a tolerable columbia SC (it was december, the only month that city is tolerable). and gladly bought a car with a shaking rear end and the least thorough inspection and test drive ever. (else id of learned of the horrors that would later befall me). Just one full throttle shift from 1-2 was enough to know that I had been properly taken a fool.
Well for better or worse. The thing made it from VA to SC with no plates, passing only a dozen state troopers. I guess they must just be asleep and using lidar, because why else would they *not* pull over a V8 car with no plates. I mean that spec is the theives dream. Fast, not subtle, and with no tags to identify itself to the government. Perfect for “cutting up” and “takeovers” which is what all the tik tok losers are into these days and based on my cars condition, it probably ate a few curbs in its unfortunate life. Well I have the car home, it needs tires, yesterday. The rear tires are different brands. Only 2 of the 4 are the same. The limited slip diff chatters at low speeds and doesnt engage at all at high ones. Oh well, thats only 1500 to fix if you remove the diff yourself. Still think German cars are a bad idea? The rest of the story will make you WISH I had just bit the bullet and bought an N54, as God wants all teenagers to do. But it was so hard convincing my parents to check out anything with me that after driving 12 hours I *had* to have my first ever fast car.
The first Issues I had with the car here simple luckily. I got the AC replaced at a total ripoff and had the brakes inspected. A cool 1200$. All of which would have been saved by simply buying a better car. But then the fun began and it started with my cooling system. Car overheated, oh well it was a bad thermostat, easy college parking lot fix. Then it blew a line off because I did a piss poor job bleeding the coolant, lesson learned. The line touched the accessory belt ruining it. GM so I simply walked to an auto parts store and immediately had a new one in my hands. Then the real suffering began. The electrical issues that I never solved after almost 2.5k$ of parts chucking. The car had a recurring issue, nothing would happen when you turn the key or it would not rev above idle. First time this happened was easy, battery and alternator replaced, no issue for the next month. Then it would not idle in a parking garage trying to get home, replaced the throttle body after it threw some codes related to that. Sometime later it returned saying my pedal position was inaccurate, okaaaaay. After some head scratching i found out that half my ECU was slightly loose. The plastic clip holding in one of the connectors had given up so it was held in my gravity. A new ECU? An aftermarket one is a cool 700$ before any programming, with which its highly advised you go to a dealership.
At this point you must be asking, what was actually fun about this car? Well it was the journey. I wasn’t very good at working on things before I had this car, and I still have tons to learn. But the GTO took me from panicking when something went bad to calling all the boys for the cars 11th bump start of the month, 3700lb curb weight of little to no use. And the car was truly fun and would have been lovely if it was not so badly neglected. Because I was in College I didn’t need to have a car that started every single day, worse case I simply walk to the store. I suffered to keep that thing on the road, and I loved it when it was driving. But the dozen breakdowns wore me out, and how I ended up with an Obese Cobalt SS as my next car.
I learned the most important lesson, assume anyone on Facebook is lying to you if they’re trying to sell you something. Never even touch a performance car with mis matched tires (if the driver had more than 3 brain cells they would at least put matching all seasons on all 4 corners). Never accept a short test drive or a sellers dumb excuses like his wife being afraid of bridges. On an app where most people are avid members of your local white supremacist group and whole heatedly believe vaccines have computer chips in them, its best to not trust what sellers have to say. Leave the deal at the first hint of a lie. If a deal is too good to be true and is listed for more than a week: it is too good to be true, run. In retrospect, my requirements were ridiculous. If I could turn back time to when my automotive choices were still trusted by my hobbies two greatest sponsors (thanks mom and dad) I’d have bought a manual BMW 128i. The last small NA BMW, light, simple, not corolla reliable, but with proper care will gladly last well into the 100k range. Even more important, if you’re a young driver, horsepower is a complete waste of money. It will get you speeding tickets and “bragging rights” (nobody thinks your car is cool when they’re pushing it up a hill) Spend your spare cash on seat time and traffic lawyers. First one is self explanatory, second is the occasional necessary evil.
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The 2004 Honda S2000, an Angry Little Thing
By Backlicker
For some reason, I never get to drive cars under normal conditions. Where most of our reviews are done on the open road and we get to see how the car is under day-to-day use, I only got to drive this car on a closed course. The advantage is, I could see what this car could really do.
The first thing you notice when you try to drive an S2000 is that it won’t start. The key turns and then it just won’t. For some reason, the key is just the ignition, and the starter is a button on the other side of the wheel. Once you get it started, you stall the car, except you didn’t stall, and I’m not even sure you can stall this car. Honda gave this little creature a delay valve on the clutch, making it very difficult to mess up.
Track time is expensive, but Autocross isn’t. Though the S2000 is not the best autocross car at the moment, it doesn’t seem to know that. Every run it gives its all, which is quite a bit more than you would think. I managed to outpace a Shelby GT350 with that screamy little 4 cylinder. In autocross, grip is more important than power, and the S2000 has plenty of grip. I don’t know what the factory tire size was, but the owner squeezed some meaty super 200s onto it and now it bites down and stays in place. I tried to get stupid with the throttle and the break, I tossed it around a Chicago box at moronic speeds and I just couldn’t get it to slide. I was told going in that this car was notoriously understeery, to a point where it just would not turn if you tried to do too much at once, but this day it seemed quite happy with my buffoonery.
The trick is to keep the revs up as high as you can, because this car has no torque.
At all.
Despite what The Fast and the Furious, Need for Speed, Initial D, and many zoomer car enthusiasts might say, this car is really slow. What do you expect, its a miata. And for the 2000s, it was a damn good miata. At that time it competed with the MR2 and the NB Miata, cars that made a bit more than half the power. It would be years until Mazda introduced a next generation Miata that could actually compete with the S2000, and even the current generation has yet to make comparable power. The flaw in the S2000 was also its downfall, it was really expensive. Period pricing would put it in a similar pricing bracket to Mustangs and Camaros, cars that might not have been faster, but sure were flashier. And they were cheaper to produce, as Honda didn’t have a wealth of front-engine, RWD, Roadster bits in the parts bin. Designing and building a transmission that only works on one car makes things a lot more expensive for everyone.
To get this thing moving at sporty speeds, you need to launch from about 3k, and then you wait. Once the motor spools up to about 6k, VTEC kicks in and the S2000 reminds you why it is an iconic Japanese sports car. The good news is, there’s still plenty of tac after, this cursed thing revs to 9,000 rpm. And you are going to need to use all of it. With how little torque this car has, you need to keep that needle buried in the red, something that would be torture for most cars but the S2000 likes this. If you want to get the most out of this car, you need to match its vibes. And this car is just furious.
Photos by KJB Media
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Most Bang For Your Buck: Fiat Abarth or Excursion Stretch Limo?
From the depths of the classifieds (but mainly just Facebook Marketplace) we come today to finally put your cries to rest. We conned the government into thinking we develop hypersonic anti-ship missiles, and now loaded with tax-deductible DOD-bucks, we can finally tackle life’s greatest mysteries. Questions like “Can I trust a Fiat 850 Spider that sat outside in Pennsylvania for 20 years”, “is a $20,000 Lotus Elise a bad idea”, or even “will my father ever love me” are at the forefront of our research here at MSIMA Labs.
For todays episode of “Bang for your buck”, we look at the two extremes of the automotive word: a 2013 Fiat Abarth 500 and a 2000 Ford Excursion Limo with a good 240 inches to boot.
Methodologies:
In order to quantify the greatest amount of “bang” achievable per “buck”, two novel methods are proposed. The first and simplest approach looks at the cost per pound of each vehicle. However, as the extent of the weight gain of the Excurssssssion is unknown, an estimated weight is used based on empirical data gathered from similar limo conversions. The baseline Excursion price to ratio is also determined for the reader’s convenience.
The second method is derived from vehicle footprint. This relies solely on known quantities of manufacture stated dimensions and seller quoted lengths. This could be seen as a more accurate depiction of bang / buck due to the lack of assumptions in order for this model to work.
All calculations will be done using U.S. dollars and not some fake made up currency.
Input Data and Results:
First off, the a regular Ford Excursion is examined as a baseline. And it loses out on both fronts. It is truly terrible value for the amount of measurable car you’re playing those hard earned America shekels for. However, the data becomes more interesting when looking at the two cars we should be comparing.
The Ford Excuuuuuuuuuuuursion limo is the best car if you consider vehicle mass, beating out the Abarth 500 by 15 whole cents. Meanwhile, the Abarth beats the limo when looking at dollar per square inch of vehicle footprint by 2 cents. So, a tie then?
Well…
Conclusions:
We can’t leave this question unanswered, that’s just unprofessional. So, if the cold hard maths have failed us, then let us turn to public opinion.
The greater MSIMA community was polled:
And well, that settles it then. By 2 votes, the Ford Excuuuuuuursion Limo is the most car per dollar in this cross-shopping experiment! Buy a whole warehouse full of them, I know I will.
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The ZR1X Might Be Fast, But MSIMA *Will* Be FASTER
May of you “so called loyal consumers of content” may have heard from more “reputable” and “intellectual” sources that the new 1200 hp awd hybrid Corvette ZR1X posted a sub 2 second 0-60 time on both a prepped and unprepared surface. This bit of news, after further examination (reading it on Hagerty’s Instagram account) turns out to be true.
So.
Congratulations to the team at GM Performance. You’ve done it. But how long will that record hold for?
BECAUSE WE AT MIS-SHIFT INTO MY ASS HAVE A PLAN LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND ALL THOSE OTHER SCARED FACES IN BETWEEN.
Behold, team at Corvette, our master plan:
THE MSIMA PLAN FOR STRAIGHT LINE DOMINANCE
What you see here is quite simple. A Ginetta G40R with a few “slight modifications”. These include a couple of Aim-9’s “with the warheads removed”, a borrowed DARPA project, and some wheel covers (not shown). Should be capable of Mach 5.7, so it’s technically also hypersonic. Kiss my ass SSC Bloodhound.
Wind tunnel testing (pictured above) ends this week. We will see you all on the Space Shuttle Landing Strip for testing this summer.
No further questions at this time please. You have been warned.
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AI Render or Bad Concept Car?
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Top Ten Best ‘RS’ Badged cars
Ah the holy ‘RS’ badge. Only slapped on the most deserving metal around, it heralds a special name. Some say it stands for “rally special”, “race specification”, “rare specimen”, or even “really specific”. Whatever the case may be, right now in this very instance of time on this planet, we look at the best ever “RS” branded cars to have been produced!
10 – Baojun RS‑3
这是中国车。这是宝骏RS-3，完全配得上RS这个称号。巴拉巴拉巴拉，我就是个中国产的破烂货，这辆车根本没有任何优点
9 – Chevy Spark RS
See, who doesn’t want a normal looking Chevy Spark like the one shown here? Nothing abnormal, nothing at all.
8 – Honda Civic RS Hatchback
What the hell is this thing? Well, it’s not a Type-R, and it’s not a basic bitch Si. It’s some weird third option that’s in-between! And it’s JDM only, so don’t even think about it.
7 – Equinox RS
Holy balls is this a vehicle worth while of an RS badge. The Equinox is an incredible vehicle that’s tremendously capable in every way possible. Screw a Jeep, get an RS.
6 – Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS
Subaru might be known for their turbo-flat four rally wannabes. However, Subaru aficionados know the truth. The true and pure Subaru experience lies in the naturally aspirated 2.5L cars, such as the 2.5 RS. Especially the first gen 2.5 RS, with its 5600 rpm red line, WRX style body, and 165 hp! It’s such a shame we don’t have a 2.5 RS based on the VB platform. GIVE THE PURISTS WHAT THEY WANT SUBARU!
5 – Audi RS Q8
The Audi RS line knows what they’re doing, and this one is wonderfully fiddled with by ABT. Kinda stunning, until you realize it’s still the bloat lord known as the Q8. Then you’re right back to disappointment.
4 – Škoda Enyaq iV vRS
What are you? Why does the headlights go straight through the grill? Why is it a fat knockoff BMW 4 series GT line? The world may never know, but what we do know is it’s uncanny resemblance to a lime.
3 – Honda HR-V RS
You know, I’m not really sure this thing actually exists. However, chasingcars.com.au says it does. Maybe it’s an aussie thing? Either way, it doesn’t look any different from any other HR-V, so that takes it down a few notches. The one in the picture is from Indonesia, which is a place we at MSIMA can’t confirm exists either.
2 – Geely Emgrand RS-1 Million Edition
A crazy and special edition of the Emgrand, Geely really went all out for this one. With “1 Million” edition badging all over, those seen in one might need to hide their faces for all the attention it brings.
Honorable Mention: Renault R.S. 01
Renault, I wish you had the balls to make a road going one of these…
1 – Mitsubishi Lancer RS
Alright, for real now. The Evo 2 RS is such beautiful in every way that it’s ugly. Stripped down as much as possible, this is a true homologation car. Lord help me, this is pretty and I’m having a crisis. Buy me 20 please.
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Automation Game to Pause Sales During Glickenhaus Lawsuit
Recently, Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus (SCG) threatened legal action against… someone. Is the threat is meant for the team behind the car company tycoon and car design sandbox game Automation? Or was it towards the user who designed the car using the misc generic parts and body templates the game has to offer. We don’t know, but regardless, SCG has taken this very seriously. The offending fake car designed by a fan playing the game is shown below:
The user made car (Automation doesn’t have full cars, all cars from the game are user designed) 
The as of yet produced SCH 004 ‘CS’ We lack further context other than SCG’s initial fighting words and not much else:
Many can speculate as to why exactly SCG would like to sue either Automation or the creator of the car. But we at MSIMA don’t do speculation. So instead, we rummaged through the garbage (as per usual) behind Roush’s 004 production center before uncovering the following fax:
“Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus SCG007 EVO Funding Proposal”
The following plan was drafted on January 14, 2026, succeeding recent legal developments.
- Bring Automation to court against IP infringement.
- Attempt to settle out of court with a sponsorship dealer worth $6.45 million dollars. (It is assumed that the government of New Zealand will ensure the funds as to not allow the studio to go bankrupt)
- Contract Dallara to continue development of the SCG007 and produce an EVO upgrade for the 2027 WEC and ALMS season. Initial development will be covered by the lawsuit.
- Consider running the LMH program using majority intern labor for the 2027 and 2028 season as a cost saving measure.
- Buy the Automation Game from Camshaft Software once 75% of the amount is paid for. Finalize development of the game for a full release under “SCG Studios LLC”.
- Use the profits from game sales (estimate full price of $65) to provide a steady revenue stream for the reinvigorated LMH program.
- Coasting off the success of the SCG007 EVO, develop the SCG010 LMH2 for the 2030 season as a hydrogen combustion car (attempt to secure a Toyota GR technical partnership).
- Sell the 004s finally.
It is pertinent to our future success as a company and our mission to “take on the establishment” that we implement this plan posthaste.
We at MSIMA wish all those involved the best of luck with… uh… whatever exactly is going on with this. As for us? Well, you can always join our official discord server and partake in our Automation/BeamNG car creator challenges (when we remember to do them of course)!
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Who is the TRUE Successor to the F40?
With the vaguely and apparently “retro-inspired” Ferrari F80 hitting the scene in late 2025, people all across the internet were quick to draw comparisons to the old turbo-ferraris of yore. Because, if you look at its wedgy profile and squint, a vague similarity would indeed be seen. So, is the F80 the true successor to the F40?
Nay(!), argues the layman, it is but a step in the Ferrari Hypercar Linage. The successor to the F40 is the F50, logically!
But alas, the journalists of the time would disagree, being underwhelmed by its formula 1 derived naturally aspirated v12 and gated manual. Its too ugly, its too slow.
So once again, we dawn our investigative caps, and look past the 1990’s. AHA! Cries the casual, it must then be the Ferrari Enzo! For sure this lunatic of a car must be worthy. But alas, an automatic car can not be uttered in the same sentence as the all mighty ones. And like the F50 before and the LaFerrari after, these cars all have screaming naturally aspirated v12s! What good are those in the presence of the turbocharged eldritch gods?
And so, we spiral. Could it be the 488? Nay, for this is but a series production car.
On the verge of ending it all, hope lost and shotgun loaded, a shimmer of hope from a drug induced fever dream breaches the clutches of darkness. An apparition of red and yellow beams its rays of light into my soul. The answer. The first, only, and true successor to the Ferrari F40. A rebel, a trend setter, and the first modern turbocharged Ferrari.
That’s just it.
The California T.
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The Official MSIMA Consumer Loyalty Test
Wake up, my dear fanatical Mis-shift reader!
We have gained the ability to give you lovely assholes pop quizzes, so while we slowly dissolve into the automotive version of Buzzfeed slop, enjoy this! A look back at the rich and illustrious history we have at this glorious company. You better get an A, because if you don’t, the belt is coming off. I mean it.