The Ariel Atom is absolutely the most impractical car you’ll ever lust after. It has no trunk, roof, windshield, doors… hell, even the seats are made of plastic. But none of that matters, because it is the third fastest production car on Earth. And it’s cheap.

My favorite quote from Jeremy Clarkson’s road test of the Atom:

Over the years I’ve flown F-15 fighters and done power-slides in airboats and straffed the desert in helicopter gunships, but for sheer excitement this thing is off the scale.

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My regular readers know that I love the British TV show Top Gear. They’ve given us such fine shows as the Bugati Veyron and Lamborghini Gallardo reviews… but now they’ve really outdone themselves.

In this episode the guys take on a ridiculous challenge to drive across Alabama in cars painted with offensive comments in order to find out what happens.

The funny thing is that you can tell at the beginning they think it’s funny and aren’t too worried. But when you see what happens later you’ll definitely understand why they are fleeing in fear of their lives…
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Thanks again to Jimbo for finding this one… The Bugatti Veyron is the most expensive, and fastest, car the world has ever seen.

It has two V8 engines strapped together and turbocharged to produce 1,000 horsepower, and it does 0-60 mph in 2.5 seconds. That makes this ultimate supercar as fast as a Formula 1 racecar.

Somehow the fantastic British TV show Top Gear managed to not only get their hands on a Veyron for testing… but convinced Bugatti to allow them to race an airplane from Italy to London!
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Ok. Maybe I won’t be plopping down $200k for one of these any time soon, but I must say that I’ve never seen a car magazine test reviewer so enamored with any vehicle. Ever.

Check out the video to see what I mean.
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