Weekly Roundup: October 2, 2015

Prehistoric Ford SUVs! Jose Canseco! Sparking discussions with the sparkless! Brake pads that SQUEAK! It's all here in the Weekly Roundup.

Brother Bark returns to the lineup this week with an op-ed comparing #Dieselgate to the "Steroid Era" of baseball. Bark fails to mention that he and I both met McGwire the year after he hit 49, and that he was already as large as a polar bear.

At Road&Track this week, I have a paean to the surprisingly engaging Bentley Continental GT3-R, a think piece about the future of diesel that was one of the most popular things on the Web that day, period point blank, and a brief discussion on ways to get a Performance Car Of The Year for free.

For TTAC, I indulged my weakness for titles that refer to other titles with What Were Once MINIs Have Become Habitual and The Last Days Of Bronco, referring to a Doobie Brothers record and a movie that itself refers to a novel.

This upcoming week, I'll be contesting the NASA sprint races at Mid-Ohio and doing some off-road motorcycling in SoCal. Bark will, I hope, be mentally preparing for the AER enduro at Mid-O in three weeks. I'll also be doing my first drafts of PCOTY, which I can now report was definitely not won by the Porsche Boxster S.