Mr. Buick's Top Reads of 2025 - A Thread

Very happy to see im not the only person who felt compelled to tell people to watch this after watching it themselves. What a film, can not recommend enough. Fantastic car, Fantastic cinematography, fantastic characters. #film #weirdcarbs youtu.be/f22vd9nfCOU?...

Ok, yeah, it's that good.

This deserves 305,879,123 more views, wowowowowowowow youtu.be/f22vd9nfCOU

What the actual...!! I just asked Google Gemini to create a photo of Tour de France, but where on of the riders was a robot. And the image that it created has an image caption of AFP Photo. This is not okay Google. You don't make up fake images and then credit them to real-world press organizations!

It’s been a rough 25 years for Millennials

i might have a favorite OC ? #artvsartist #artvsartist2025

fwiw designer of the third (Naoki Sakai) worked with Nissan to create the Pike cars, as well as Toyota for the WiLL project

My friend found a Disney World Alien Encounter crew jacket at a thrift shop and I’m so jealous

The AUX cable is for the portable CD player

Top 10 countdown time. Last year's thread linked. Starting with the Smart Crossblade, shot for a @classicretromodern.bsky.social feature. One of the ultimate "riviera cars" - more attention-grabbing than a supercar, and fun mainly below 30mph. Top-down view one of my faves.

Was listening to the @babyforcessale.bsky.social podcast and the Weird Car Mark&Lard confidently stated their opinion on the reliability of old Fiats and as you know my experience is somewhat different even taking them to extremes So when was the last time you saw a broken down Fiat at the roadside

Rétro cars voiture 🚘 Une Simca Océane et des Simca 1000 Butagaz - Tour de France 1964

My response to anything over the next two weeks

i think yall shouldnt even care about tiktok cuz the only reason they want control over it is because it's so good at influencing your thoughts and opinions and you should like sit with that and really think about it

Kinda mental that at its peak in April 2018, Jeep sold circa 30k Jeep Wranglers in a month

Solving policy problems with fantasies is effective 1:100 times but those 1s are so memorable and groundbreaking (Model T, iPhone, Starbucks, NES, you name it) we think we know future product winners because we think we know what made past products winners in the first place

lunchtime browsing today: the sun is out, in case you’re wondering why it’s turning into a Bluebird day both literally and figuratively and this one is *special* - that rear wing, the period Advan Rally set, and pink mud flaps really check some boxes www.carsensor.net/usedcar/deta...

Shitface Douchebag Turboscream Fatality Mode Plus with Whey Protein

The Ford RS200 at home:

Not many people would choose a 35 year old convertible with rear wheel drive as a winter car. After five years and over 20,000 miles, I’m here to say the M30 rules.

Time to buy a lottery ticket. This is one of only a few Callaway C4s that I've seen fitted with the 100+ package. Claimed 525bhp+/650lb ft. One of the few TH400-equipped automatic cars, too. (Standard C4s from that era used the lighter-duty 700R4.) www.ebay.com/itm/11692881... #Corvette

NEW from me: The first filings in Luminar's bankruptcy case are in, and they reveal a fair amount of detail about how the deal with Volvo evolved and then ultimately broke apart. Luminar also reveals it was considering a sale as early as January 2025. techcrunch.com/2025/12/16/h...

tbf I would tow a Bowlus w a donkey if I could afford it youtu.be/NlljzKLu9qc

This is a key lens to look at how the province treats Toronto. It's a place for people outside of Toronto to get into and out of, not live. And that guides many decisions. Viewed this way, it's really a strange and political home rule system.

my muse

There's no time to explain! Put on your matching snow outfit and get in the yellow and brown snowmobile! (Click through for the best looking concept vehicle I've seen this week.)

"I LOVE SMELLING LIKE UN-FILTERED TWO STROKE EXHAUSTM, DON'T YOU?!??!?" "WHAT?!??!"

Have seen this concept, can confirm it’s an absolute unit (and that Ski-Doo made several production and concept side by side snow machines)

They were selling 250,000 Fusions a year and making money, but not ENOUGH money by whatever arbitrary measure, so they killed it in favor of SUVs on that line space. A direct insight into the mentality there - it's not about what customers want in many cases.

Santa drinks milk and so do Indy 500 winners. That means Santa has taken a victory at the Indianapolis 500 Mile Sweepstakes. In this essay I will-

"The car you're looking at can sit six people without any problems." I don't think I know six people without any problems.

I remain slightly gobsmacked that car companies like ford, which spend billions a year on ads and marketing to influence buyers’ decisions, continue to lay the blame here at the feet of customers, as if they don’t spend billions a year on ads and marketing to influence buyers’ decisions

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holding off on blowing any accounts up over this for now, but the uptick in "actually Tesla isn't that bad" comments around here is very much threatening to turn me back into the old me

Went searching for this and discovered that there's also currently a bog-basic version of the pre-facelift current gen model for sale. Funky design even in austerity spec. Nat-asp and auto 'box means it won't be quick, but great around town www.ebay.co.uk/itm/39735284...

good night y’all, and good night Hans Stuck www.artandrevs.com/car.php?id=655

From the depths of my carport. This is called a gravity bike. Back in 2012, I went 73.6 mph on this thing with rubber brakes and no fairings. I'm gonna build a new one and try to go faster.

Enjoying the spec of this Disco 3. Silver over beige cloth, manual, and on what are presumably modern Defender steelies www.ebay.co.uk/itm/13643928...

The best way to learn what people think about you is if they first think you’re dead (or fired)

I bought Dr. Pepper just to try warm Dr. Pepper. May or may not report back.

Not many people know car companies really do employ thousands of workers who have never driven a car IRL, yet who are responsible for engineering or programming critical controls

PSA for people who aren't autistic... Most autistic people are a lot more disabled than you think. If someone tells you they're autistic, there is an extremely high probability they're disabled by their autism and you just can't see it.

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

I would like to bring over my theory for solving America’s deadly roads. I call it the “Gay Truck Rule” and it would save thousands of lives every year.

A nice one! "Only" the 1.6 rather than the 1.7 (so 103bhp rather than 123bhp), though still only a tonne to haul around and the 1.6 is probably a little easier to look after these days. Need to find a set of propeller wheels too. Inexplicably ditched on later cars www.ebay.co.uk/itm/32673791...

Finally, what we've all been asking for at long last is here: a steering wheel designed by someone who is not a human being, and has never driven a car. www.carscoops.com/2025/12/this...

fr tho

taking photos of cats be like

how I feel taking a parking lot photo of some old 1990s Chrysler product