It’s been a fun weekend on the road…the Somernites Cruise was fantastic and Gravelrama 49 offered up the same awesome views that I first saw last year. As you’re reading this I’ll be checking out one more item before I wind up sleeping in my own bed…and waking up the next day to wrench on the Imperial again. So for now, I leave you with some of the best snippets of news from this last week. It’s Scrapple…enjoy!

1. Did you forget about the Forza Horizon series?If you are into video games, then you might be interested to know that a new version of the classic run-from-the-cops hit Need For Speed, “Need For Speed Heat”, is on the way. But if you were hoping to dust the fuzz in a Supra, we have bad news: Toyota didn’t allow any of their products into the game because they feel that the title promotes street racing, which is what they want to distance themselves from.

Maybe I should send them capture footage from what I did to Australia with a Celica GT-Four in Forza Horizon 3…

2. Just don’t bring back the “Un-Pimp Ze Auto” ads, ok?

Volkswagen is in no position to screw up anything at any point in time right now. Dieselgate has wreaked so much hell across the brand that they are going to re-work the classic VW badge to try to help matters…not sure about that, but ok. But of all things, they have run afoul of Britian’s Advertising Standards Authority (yikes) over an ad for the new e-Golf. Apparently, the advert censors found issue with a commercial that portrayed a woman “engaged in a stereotypical care-giving role”…meaning the woman was sitting on a bench with a coffee, a stroller next to her.

Seriously? That’s it? WTF. That’s all I can say to that. Moving on…

3. Well, that sucks.The British Car Museum in Te Awanga, New Zealand has closed after the owner/curator/creator, Ian Hope, passed on. With over 500 vehicles in the museum, the next question is pretty obvious: when is the auction going to happen? As much as Hope wanted the museum to continue, we don’t think anyone is going to step up.

4. There are some genuinely horrifying prospects with this car.Opel Corsa-e rally car. God help the first driver who slams this one into the trees in a Finland forest. Moving along…

5. A supremely bad idea. Has to be.

You know this 1994 Supra, don’t you? Yep, it’s Brian O’Conner’s car from the original Fast and Furious movie. Love or hate the flick or the series, but this is part of the reason why Supras are big bucks now, and it also is a part of Paul Walker fandom too. Which is why an Instagram post showing orange brand-new Supras near other Fast and Furious cars like black Chargers and mil-spec trucks has many an eyebrow raised. Walker is dead and the series paid tribute to him in Fate of the Furious.

Please, whatever you do, DO NOT reboot Brian O’Connor. Let that go. I know it’s already too late, but still.