Top Gear Interviews Family Guy's Peter Griffin: Be Proud, America insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com

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What gave us the idea most Americans aren't car enthusiasts? As you can see in the photo, this is Peter Griffin from Family Guy reading Top Gear magazine.

This is the most clear proof ever that Jalopnik readers aren't a fringe of the population. Ignore the fact he's reading while driving, though. Oh, and that's Hamster, Jezza and Captain Slow terrified by Peter Griffin, too.

Top Gear magazine decided to toot their own horn today, revealing that the Dec. 6 issue of the publication will feature an interview with Mr. Griffin, probably because he seems to be an average American to them and they probably aren't far off. The interview will reportedly have a series of automotive revelations that will, probably, be average.

Now if only Clarkson could get Peter Griffin in the reasonably priced car. He'll have to face questions as to why the family dog drives a Toyota Prius. Oh, I'd also like to find out why.

Top Gear Interviews Family Guy's Peter Griffin: Be Proud, America

A Victory For This Camry Rally Car Is A Victory For Toyota, America insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com

insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com ® A Victory For This Camry Rally Car Is A Victory For Toyota, America

The Toyota Camry is one of the most boring cars on the road. How do you unboring it? You make it into a rally car with throwback graphics, knobby tires, fog lights, and turbos under the hood. If this doesn't win Toyota's Dream Build Challenge, then I might start losing faith in car nuts everywhere.

Every year, Toyota gives cars to four teams of people before SEMA, and has them modify them however they see fit. This year there's an off-road Tundra, a 4-Runner for skiing, and something called a Crusher Corolla. Then there's this, the Camry Rally Car, or CamRally, for short. It is, by far, the best car produced in this year's Toyota Dream Build.

The car is the brainchild of NASCAR driver and possibly deranged obviously wonderful man Parker Kligerman. And yes, Parker is also a Jalopnik contributor, so perhaps you're thinking that makes us biased.

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Well, maybe it does, but do you see what this is? It's a gosh darn Camry Rally Car. Think about that. It's a Camry, which is the Kenmore fridge of the car world, done up in full rally regalia and it's actually functional. I love when a milquetoast car is taken out of its element and modified into something that it was never meant to be, this Camry does that perfectly.

So what mods does it have? It's Toyota's V6 with some turbos on board and what seems to be an entirely custom exhaust (dig those dual center exits), custom Vogtland suspension, BF Goodrich rubber, rear deck wing, full roll cage, stripped interior, and custom graphics. All of this comes together to create a Camry better than basically any I've ever seen.

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Voting is now open on for the Dream Build. A vote for Parker's CamRally is a vote for freedom. A vote for America. A vote for apple pie. A vote for puppies and love. A vote for happiness. But most of all, it proves that if the right person has the right vision and modifies a car, it doesn't matter what they start with, because what they end up with will be spectacular. I'm talking to you, will.i.am.

Vote for Parker's car here until November 4th. Do it.

A Victory For This Camry Rally Car Is A Victory For Toyota, America

America, the Land of the Automatic and Home of the Bad Driver insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com

insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com ® America, the Land of the Automatic and Home of the Bad Driver

The fact that in America a manual is actually considered a theft deterrent device and you get a discount on your insurance for it is just sad. American is also home to the worst drivers in the universe which is also sad. Whereas in Europe automatics are rarer than a funny German and bad drivers are weeded out at birth.

Ed: Don't take this so seriously. The millennial comment was not directed to ANYONE on Oppositelock. Members of Oppositelock are enthusiasts, and enthusiasts generally know how to drive, so don't that comment personally.

Ed again: For the love of God, I was not seriously suggesting that Europe is a Utopia full of excellent drivers and the US is a Hell hole full of shitty drivers. I am clearly aware that there are shitty drivers everywhere. Again, don't take this so seriously.

Seriously, when a type of transmission is an actual theft deterrent you know we have a problem, and it will never be fixed. We also have horrible drivers here, which makes it harder for us enthusiasts to actually enjoy driving because we’re too busy worrying about our high blood pressure caused by our daily commute. Going to Germany made it even worse; manuals are so entrenched in their driving culture that the traffic lights are even set up around them. For those unfamiliar with them, the lights don’t go from red to green; they actually go from red, to yellow for a few seconds and then green. If you drive a manual then you might be able to guess why, but since I can’t hear you saying yes or see you nodding your head I’ll explain: when you see the light go yellow you put the clutch in and the transmission in gear and by the time you do that the light is green and you’re off in a cloud of tire smoke, or blueish smoke if you’re driving an American car. I suspect that because of this lighting system that German throw-out bearings last much longer than American’s one. For those of you that have no clue what the hell I’m talking about I’ll explain this too: when you depress the clutch pedal then the throw-out bearing starts spinning, and it’s not designed for continuous use, so don’t sit at lights with the clutch pedal depressed forever, unless you like paying lots of money for repairs. That’s probably a horrible explanation because I barely remember transmissions class.

Why do American’s hate automatics so much? Well I think it’s because everyone is so lazy. Why buy a car where you might actually have to pay attention and not be able to eat and do your makeup and text your friends, all at once. I’m sure there’s a better explanation but I’m going to stick with that until someone tells gives me a better explanation.

Now what about the second part of my title suggesting that drivers here suck? Well, it’s my opinion that drivers here suck compared to our European drivers, and I also contribute that to our inherent love to be lazy, partially, the other part is that our drivers training just sucks and it’s way too easy, and cheap, to get a license in this country. I remember my German friends telling me that it costs well over 1,000 Euros and something like several years to get a license, and it seemed to work because the few people my age that could drive were really good. The family I stayed while on my exchange drove really fast but I enjoyed it, and I drive a lot like them, and get the same amount of shit as they did. I think it must be a thing with people who live in California to be scared of something they can’t do, and in this case it’s driving fast safely.

So how do we fix these two fundamental problems? Well the automatics problem is here to stay since manuals are now on the endangered species list. And the whole shitty driver’s thing is also here to stay since pussy little “millennials” hate cars and driving, so when you see a Zipcar run for your life, because I guarantee it’s a “millennial” and they have no idea how to drive. But say they wanted to grow a pair an learn how to drive, well I’d advocate for much longer drivers training programs, and make it a little more expensive, but introduce financial assistance so that working class families won’t be priced out of driving. I think that everyone should be allowed to drive and not priced out of it, but they should all LEARN how to drive and not just go into the DMV and get their license.

America, the Land of the Automatic and Home of the Bad Driver