Bradley Brownell @PluginHyBrad Twitter profile

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

3 months

This is not what "handling" is.

Teslaconomics

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3 months

The Tesla Cybertruck handles better than any sports car in the world, just watch me drive it in & out a 6-story parking lot with ease

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@PluginHyBrad

3 months

@hodgiej This is not what “gate keeping” is

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@PluginHyBrad

4 months

I love that the Mid Ohio garages still look like 1965. They make these modern all-carbon open wheel hybrid machines look even more like space ships.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

1 year

Went to a dealer yesterday to buy a truck. Here’s how it went: They lied about towing capacity They lied about interest rates They pressured us to buy more truck than our budget They way under valued our trade-in They said it was impossible to order the options we wanted

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@PluginHyBrad

1 year

@trumanhedding Silence, blue check

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

2 months

Upholstery shop is killin’ it, man. I’m so glad I got a spot on their full calendar.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

1 year

The American dealership system should be torn out at the roots. It’s a mess from start to finish. Walked out and immediately bid on a used tow vehicle. Not worth dealing with dealers.

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@PluginHyBrad

3 months

@AsympatheticGuy @hodgiej You’ll probably regret it

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

7 months

One of the worst influences on car culture is six-figure YouTube builds that are actually bad to drive.

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@PluginHyBrad

1 month

I'm glad I dedicated my life to automotive media just in time to watch a bunch of greedy corporate dipshits slowly dismantle it all and destroy careers for fun

Autoblog

@therealautoblog

1 month

We obsessively covered the auto industry for 20 years

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

5 months

Things I'm done caring about: - 0-60 times - Nürburgring lap times - Any car over $100,000 - Rare Spec - White/Grey/Silver paint - Cars without "fizz"

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

10 months

Hoonigan Phase 1 - an extreme sports brand for car dorks Phase 2 - scumbags that do burnouts Phase 3 - burned out, but corporations are giving us lots of $ to build crazy shit Phase 4 - We bought nice cars and don't want to mess them up Phase 5 - Shareholder Value

Clearlake

@clearlake

11 months

Hoonigan appoints Vance Johnston as president to lead the company in its next phase of growth and announces retirement of Randy White as CEO #PrivateEquity #Investment #Acquisition #Leadership #Automotive #Hoonigan

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@PluginHyBrad

26 days

By 2030 this is the only kind of car content that will be left

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

3 months

My working title for this was "Private Investment Firm Chews Up Recaro Automotive And Spits Its 120-Year-Old Corpse Into Bankruptcy"

Jalopnik

@Jalopnik

3 months

Private Investment Firm Chews Up Recaro Automotive And Spits Its 120-Year-Old Corpse Into Bankruptcy

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

1 month

Historical Andretti generational talent trends indicate this kid will get bumped from the 2044 Indy 500.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

7 months

When someone in a Hyundai Palisade Limited asks how I can afford my $12,000 Porsche.

Henry Cesari

@HenryCesari

7 months

And I'm not even driving it to impress you

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

8 months

I almost got fired for this photo shoot back in 2012.

ECS Tuning

@ECSTuning

5 years

When you're running late for work on a Monday and know a short cut. **alternate bonus caption** 'Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads!' #ecstuning #ecs #porsche #cayenne #offroad #backtothefuture #porscheclubamerica #watercooled #dailydriven @pluginhybrad

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Bradley Brownell

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1 year

@KalJoplin That shit fake as hell

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

3 months

Tim Walz restored an International Scout. Is the world ready for Diamond Tim?

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

1 month

Celeb spotted at Meijer: it’s Forest Service Green XJ 2-door!

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@PluginHyBrad

1 year

When we said the tow package and trailer brakes were a deal breaker, we could “get one installed for under a thousand dollars.” They gave the good cop bad cop runaround. The sales mgr said “statistically if you walk out you’re not coming back, so how do we get this done today?”

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

9 months

Someone is going to pay more than $50,000 for a Supra on BaT that includes this photo. Wrap it up, we're done here.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

3 months

@xIronman777 @AsympatheticGuy @hodgiej Fuck off, dipshit

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

8 months

"80s CaRs AReN't gOoD" Man, shut up.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

1 month

I can't shake the feeling this week that I need Spicy Miata.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

6 months

I need someone to explain to me why society thought it was a good idea to lift our sports cars and put them on off-road tires while lowering our SUVs and making them “track ready”.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

10 months

Bro, I am straight up not having a good time

Paulo Acoba 🐀

@ferio_252

10 months

$18,150 17,265 miles Dealer was asking $22,500 before this auction.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

1 year

I have ordered a Nephrite Green carpet kit for my 996 Turbo. This is getting out of hand.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

3 months

Dudes will see this and say “hell yeah”

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

15 days

Someone at my hotel is a person of distinguished taste

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

6 months

POV: It's 2005 and I'm driving to work at Pacific Sunwear in my '92 Crown Victoria

Oliver Solberg 🍩

@OliverSolberg01

6 months

Taking the scenic route through Portugal! 👀🇵🇹

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@PluginHyBrad

9 months

two of them

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@PluginHyBrad

1 year

@SpeedSportLife Yes. Also they “forgot” we had GM family pricing when the contract showed up on the desk.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

5 months

If you pay Tesla the interest rate they offer, it’s actually theft, guys

Scaremy Pumpkins 🎃

@jeremyjudkins_

6 months

What kind of hit is Tesla taking by offering a .99% promotion?! What I would suggest is secure financing from another bank and paying 6-7% like any other law abiding citizen. If you take Tesla’s offer you are basically sucking them dry in a time of need. A very selfish act.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

9 months

The Regal TourX is officially for sale. It's been a faultless daily-driver high-spec AWD German-built wagon since we bought it in 2018. It has 100,500 miles on the odometer, and it'll definitely keep going for many more. It has every option but the sunroof. Asking $13,250 OBO.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

4 months

I should buy a GTO...

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

7 months

The kids think you have to have 700 horsepower and crazy rare parts to have a cool car. It's lame.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

4 months

I have a car.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

2 months

The driver’s seat is getting new skin today!

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

1 year

@Mcheitiheitison We don’t either

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

1 month

It’s new wheels day! Hotboi Fifteen52s on the plug-in wagon.

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@PluginHyBrad

12 days

The toilet situation in the Air BnB we’re staying is a real mess

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

7 months

The fuck is this thing? LMAO

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@PluginHyBrad

8 months

@SpeedSportLife Car got stuck in the mud. The truck we used to haul it out got stuck worse. I was muddy up to my knees. The old owners were shitbags.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

7 months

Repave Sebring.

Mark Urban

@murbanvideo

7 months

“So how bumpy do you want the race track to be?” “Yes”

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@PluginHyBrad

7 months

In 1986 Toyota sold the MR2, Mk3 Supra, Celica, Corolla FX16, and Corolla AE86 all at the same time, but in 2024 it's damn near impossible to get a coupe or a manual. How did we let this happen?

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

1 year

Nine grand. Red guts. 5.2L 4x4. 84k miles. Tell me why not???

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

1 month

Can anyone pinpoint the moment that Elon Musk began his descent into madness? Was it the cave submarine thing?

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

1 year

Millennials and Gen Z are having fewer children than the last few generations, and while wealth is harder earned for them, are moving into their adult wage-earning years. If they/we don't need second and third rows, are we going to witness the return of the personal coupe?

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@PluginHyBrad

7 months

My car has paint!

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@PluginHyBrad

6 months

Remember when this thing was supposed to be $39,995?

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

13 days

Never seen salt

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

21 days

I’m pretty sure my neighbor got heat lamps instead of spot lights for their Halloween decorations. I would love to see their electric bill come November 1.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

6 months

If I were CEO of a company that lost 40% of its value year to date, I simply would not ask company shareholders to approve a $56B pay package. But I guess I’m built different.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

7 days

If you vote for this fucking moron, you’re also a fucking moron.

Jalopnik

@Jalopnik

7 days

Donald Trump Suggests A 2,000 Percent Tariff On Cars Built In Mexico

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

6 months

I'm confident that if I had this Saleen Ranger Sportruck, I'd be unstoppable

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

1 year

It’s Chunky 911 Time.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

3 months

Does anybody *really* care about tech in motorsport? It seems like there's no reason we can't have this kind of racing again (admittedly with updated safety). It would look cool and could be done on the cheap.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

1 year

HOT DAMN!

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

1 year

“I want my vintage Rolls to be loud and violent, because I fundamentally don’t understand what Rolls has been trying to achieve for 100 years.”

Lee Harry |🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿|🇬🇧

@L333LHC

1 year

Now this is how you do a resto. No silly batteries.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

11 months

Living in Ohio is depressing, but putting my fun cars away for the winter makes it even worse. 😞

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

7 months

Whoa, the entire automotive media industry got scooped by realtor Bobbie Murphy! Over 7,000 shares, it must be true!

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

11 months

This kicks so much ass

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

4 months

This is a Michelin Tweel®️ stan account.

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@PluginHyBrad

11 months

Guys will see this and be like “hell yeah”

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

11 months

I’m eventually going to have to become a Corvette guy.

Henry Cesari

@HenryCesari

11 months

An absurd amount of performance for $10k My friends: I want a cheap manual sports car with more power than a Miata. And flip-up headlights would be nice. Me:

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

8 months

I don’t need a Thema 8.32, but I don’t not need a Thema 8.32…

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

11 months

BaT is really gonna approve an auction with this as the lead image?

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8 days

@trinity__2020 @hartgoat “Calm down” followed shortly by “you easily could have died” is truly unhinged shit. Bonkers.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

23 days

Welp, I did it

Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

24 days

Chat, should I buy a Ducati tomorrow?

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

6 months

If you have the opportunity to buy a house, don’t. It’s just an endless cycle of calling contractors, getting them to do half a job poorly, then they ghost you and you have to hire another one to fix the first one’s mistakes. It’s hell, and not worth it.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

7 months

Post-housing crisis economy cars just hit different, man.

Preston Tiegs

@pmtiegs

7 months

Today's car you may not know about: The Chevy Cruze Eco. Chevy deleted the spare tire, thinned the sheet metal to save weight, adding low rolling resistance tires, lighter wheels, smaller gas tank, grill shutters, underbody panels, and a manual transmission with 3 overdrive

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@PluginHyBrad

1 year

I’ve owned this car since April and it’s finally legal. Took a few minutes tonight to mount the plate with rivnuts and stainless 1/4-20 hardware instead of screws into the plastic from the factory. Small projects are nice.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

11 months

Anybody wanna pay thousands of dollars to hang out in 40 degree weather in the worst place on earth to watch a practice session on a Wednesday night? Yeah, that’s what I thought.

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@MattP1Gallagher

11 months

Damn these grandstands are… empty

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@PluginHyBrad

10 months

It is with a heavy heart that I must inform you I'm leaving Hoonigan. I figured since everyone else is making this announcement, I might as well do one, too.

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@PluginHyBrad

6 months

Me: Man, I wish there were good options for replacement 996 headlights. The Internet: Why don't you just 3D print them?

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@AlfredoMorenoSS He, who?

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@PluginHyBrad

4 months

The yelp I made when this pulled in to Valley Vibes

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

3 months

The interior shop sent me these photos this morning, and I’m so incredibly stoked.

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@PluginHyBrad

6 months

Car enthusiasts for 30 years: "MAKE IT FASTER AT THE TRACK!" Car enthusiasts now: "They made the 911 Dakar and Huracan Sterrato are good because they aren't as stiff and have more tire." You ruined sports cars so that you could ruin sports cars in order to make them good again?

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

6 months

This remains the hardest shit that has ever been done at SEMA

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

1 year

WE ARE SO BACK!

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@PluginHyBrad

5 months

We’re selling our house! If you want to live in Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood and need a 4 bed 2.5 bath 2145sqft home, this is the one. $475,000 obo, will trade for 997 GT3 RS 4.0 or similar.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

9 months

This is proof for a theory I've held for a while. E-mail is broken. Just like phone calls, e-mails were once for important messages from people you wanted to speak with. They've become inundated with unnecessary messages and spam, they're no longer viable communication tools.

The Associated Press

@AP

9 months

Formula One's invitation for in-person meeting with Andretti Cadillac went to a spam email folder

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

2 months

I can't believe it took over a month to make the perfect Hawk Tuah joke

General Guntar

@__Guntar__

2 months

Walk Tuah the polls and vote on that thang

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@PluginHyBrad

19 days

When you think your M6 is rare and then two more show up

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

1 year

Car buying sucks. Me: “Can I order one with the packages I want?” Dealer: “No.”

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

10 days

Aging product lineup, a decade of lies about future tech, overpromising and under delivering, and a CEO that sucks shit.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼

@Noahpinion

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The EV market is becoming more competitive in the U.S.

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@PluginHyBrad

1 year

Still thinking about how a dealer tried to bait and switch me by saying they were offering a 0.9% APR, and when the paperwork came out it was an 8% loan.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

11 months

Just did a four-wheel ABS stop from 70 mph because a car on the other side of the highway lost its tire and it bounced right in front of my car. I think I’ll change my pants now.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

9 months

I don't know who needs to hear this today, but it is already illegal to exceed the speed limit.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

1 year

Anyway, I'm trading a 275/45-20 on the Cayenne for a 245/65-17. Sidewall gang, where you at?

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

8 months

Ope, I need it.

Rivian

@Rivian

8 months

R2 is just the beginning. Say hello to R3.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

8 months

If you aren't road-tripping your car to a concours, you don't deserve to win.

Myron Vernis

@MyronVernis

8 months

So proud of Allie and Ian for winning a Class Award at @AmeliaConcours with the Autech Zagato after driving it 850 miles to the event. Two lessons: 1. Young people do love fun cars. 2. Show cars can and should be driven.

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

3 months

Taking the Turbo for the weekend and heading for the hills. It’s a three-day weekend for my 37th birthday. Throttle down!

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

1 year

@benznotmercedes Them: "LOCALLY HATED" Me: "Who are you?"

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Bradley Brownell

@PluginHyBrad

3 months

@CoreyLewis86 That’s right, and it always will be

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@PluginHyBrad

1 year

If you show up to a track day with a copy of the car that won Le Mans overall, you’re all but guaranteed to get passed by a dude in a Radical.

Ferrari Races

@FerrariRaces

1 year

Introducing the new #Ferrari499PModificata , inspired by our 24 Hours of Le Mans winner ❤️ The stunning model, aimed at gentlemen drivers, is a strictly limited-series track car for non competitive use inaugurates the new Sport Prototipi Clienti Programme 🤩 #FerrariFM23