Question of the Week

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We’re back to announce the winner for our Question of the Week, where our victor will accept a $25 credit for a hat or T-shirt from the BaT Gear Store and the acclaim of their peers.

Our question was: What car advertising claim have you foolishly tried to verify?

Thanks to everyone who participated. You dropped your best tales of automotive consumer verification this week, and today we’re exercising our Editorial Privilege by choosing the comment that stood out to us the most! The prize goes to BaT member @kens, who widened the scope with a quote from a 1980s Ferrari advertising campaign (who knew Ferrari did ad campaigns?):

“When Ferrari introduced the 308 GTS, their advertisement read; “What Can Be Conceived Can Be Created”. Well, that opened the door to a fifteen year engine swap project. I introduced an Alfa Romeo V6 3.0 24V into a mid-engine Lancia. I am rather certain that for the same amount of time and effort, I could have created a Fortune 500 company.”

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We’re back to announce the winner for our Question of the Week, where our victor will accept a $25 credit for a hat or T-shirt from the BaT Gear Store and the acclaim of their peers.

Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s QotW, where we asked: What’s the dumbest warning label you’ve seen in a car?

We would normally be disinclined to be presented with various liability disclaimers, but we were chuckling at the various warning labels you shared with us this week. The “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear” warning on cars’ passenger mirrors was a popular nomination this week, although we would hardly consider it a dumb reminder.

So we’re handing the prize to a comment that stood out the most to us, which came from BaT member @Porsche1931:

“On the sun visor, in a Boxster it says, and I quote,”The safest place for children is the backseat” 🤨, you want an eight year old to sit in the engine bay? Sound more dangerous than the airbag to me…”

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This week, we asked: What’s the worst warning noise you’ve ever heard?
Thanks to everyone who participated. Many of your nominations involved a number of cacophonous sounds following a disaster, and these certainly harkened back to last year’s spooky season QotW: scariest noise your car has ever made.
Warning buzzers from the 1970s and 1980s were quite popular in this week’s comment thread. Amid safety regulations, the unruly noises proliferated in American automobiles during the 1970s, and BaT member @CrownRegal told us a funny story about a 1973 Buick LeSabre that tried to warn him when it was already too late:
My first car in high school was a 1973 Buick LeSabre.

WINNER’S ANNOUNCEMENT:

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This week, we asked: What car would you choose for a Jolly-style conversion?

Thanks to everyone who chimed in! Since the Italian translation for Jolly is “Joker,” it was serendipitous that thiss question landed a day before April Fools’ Day, but your answers were anything but a joke. BaT member @IsAlwaystheAnswer left the most-liked comment this week for the Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman Landaulet. But seeing as he’s a three-time QotW champ, we went with another one of our favorite nominations, which came from @shakingthrough for the Citröen 2CV: 

“How about a Jolly Citroen 2CV – France’s version of the People’s Car. It was designed to carry a basket of eggs through a freshly ploughed field without breaking any. Instead put a cooler and picnic basket in the back, and you could certainly traverse a rocky beach in style.”

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This week, we asked: What’s the biggest repair you’ve pulled off in an auto parts store parking lot?

Having to do automotive repairs in an auto parts store parking lot (or adjacent) could be considered an instance of an inconvenient situation arising in the most convenient of places. After reading everyone’s comments, we’re awarding the prize to the user whose comment stood out the most to us this week. That comment comes to us from BaT member @Jim_Rosenthal:

“Two of us changed a VW engine in the parking lot, but it wasn’t the parts store parking lot. It was the parking lot NEXT DOOR to a parts store parking lot. Because we’d fitted the engine tin wrong, one cylinder overheated and seized (this is evidently not unusual) Since neither of us had much money, and VW engines don’t weigh much, we decided to do it right there. There are many things I would not attempt now, for any amount of $$$. This is now one of them.”

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This week, we asked: What was the most ‘70s paint color of the 1970s?

Thanks to everyone who participated! We took out our 64-color set out of Crayola Crayons and immediately went to working reviewing your answers. Varying shades of greens, browns, and golds were popular this week, but one particular color was the most-mentioned by name: Plum Crazy Purple! BaT member @Trusted_One was the first to nominate it:

“Well, being totally colorblind (my dates thought I just had no taste in fashion!) I’m probably not the one to comment on this. But I do remember being able to see the.Plum Crazy Dodge Challenger R/T and having to put on my Ray-Ban sunglasses to tone down the pain to my eyes!”

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This week, we asked: What irrational car or truck is the easiest to rationalize?

Thanks to everyone who threw their hat into the ring! You certainly rationalized the irrational this week. We were certainly sold. This week, we’re awarding the prize to the nomination that most stood out to us, which came from BaT member @Wanted_Man—a first-time QotW winner! Congratulations, Wanted_Man. Check your email to claim the prize. 

“The GMC Syclone. Who doesn’t need a truck that can’t haul anything and can do 0-60 in 4.3 seconds, in the rain?”

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This week, we asked: What’s your drag racer nickname?

Thanks to everyone who wrote in! We broke out our roster and got to work reading the list of nicknames—many meant business, few were self-deprecating, and plenty landed somewhere in between. We’re picking our favorite nickname (Editorial Privilege!) as this week’s winner, which was submitted by BaT member @ChunkyLover75:

“Gordon Heavyfoot”

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This week, we asked: What’s your favorite qualifying moment?

Thanks to everyone who participated! Two nominations were deadlocked for pole position this week: Michael Schumacher’s 2006 infamous “parking” job at Monaco and Aryton Senna’s qualifying lap at the 1988 Monaco Grand Prix. So we turned to the thumbs to determine our winner, and with a cumulative 11 likes, this week’s winning nomination is Senna’s Monaco GP qualifying run! BaT member @Newport_Pagnell was the first to it, but seeing as he’s recently won QotW, we’re awarding the prize to the next in line—@BloodyHell:

“As @Newport_Pagnell already correctly answered…
Senna
1988
Monaco
Inarguably the greatest driver in F1 history doing what only he could do..”

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