A man from San Francisco just recently posted a listing on the infamous “Craigslist” in hopes to trade his mustang for two pounds of weed, claiming it would be used for pain relief. I guess he forgot about tylenol or advil? We can’t tell if this is undercover narcotics just hoping for some idiot to take the bait or a complete twit. The orginial post reads…

“5.0 mustang for TRADE for cannibis – $4000 (bay area)

hello, i would like to trade my 5.0 mustang for 2 pounds of marijuana.. NO LESS NO MORE. 454 grams. its clean titled good and reliable runnin real strong. this is a serious offer. i have a leg pain that wont go away without marijuana and doctors will not prescribe me a cannibis card.. please help me out. this is a serious ad and i have pictures. e-mail me and i will e-mail you back asap. i am not the police or narco or undercover.. i can meet in a location of your choice.”

And what makes the post even more comical is the keywords that this bonehead attached to his post, some of which include the common weed, marijuana, and kush along with the more comical Bone Thugs and Harmoney, Bob Marley, and Tupac, which we have no idea how they relate. To see this post  click here http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/cto/1562754593.html. We are sure it will bring many laughs for weeks to come.

As every enthusiast who has ever looked on in amazement as an officer in a Crown Vic executed a flawless u-turn across what appeared to be a solid concrete median (I’m look at you Cherry Hill PD) without sustaining major damage is undoubtedly aware, Ford will officially retire the iconic Crown Vic Police Interceptor in 2011. Up until this point, its only potential successors were the Chevy Caprice PPV and my personal favorite, the Dodge Charger Interceptor. While the latter is more than well equipped to replace the aging Crown Vic in the aesthetics department, some LEOs have complained about its reliability (hey, it’s a Chrysler) but sincerely doubt the Caprice would fare much better. Fortunately, those fears should be quelled as Ford announced today that they will be introducing an official replacement upon the Crown Vic’s immediately following its retirement in 2011.

As many a high-profile social networker has since discovered, if you lacked the foresight to snap up your domain early on it’s probably been commandeered by an overzealous fanboy or, more likely, a lady of ill-repute. Perhaps the most publicly upset about this trend is Hyundai, who only recently started Tweeting and is currently dealing with a barrage of unofficial accounts. According to Auto News, Hyundai has expressed concerns that the lusty, busty ladies of @Hyundai will taint the brand image and at the original time of publish, Twitter had failed to respond to Hyundai’s requests to have the page disabled. Since then, I tried locating the infamous @Hyundai only to find that Twitter had suspended the account, presumably in response to Hyundai’s threats to take legal action.

United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger, right, and Bob King, UAW vice president, left, address the media in Detroit, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009 after the union reached a tentative deal with the Ford Motor Co. on contract changes.

Despite the glimmer of hope provided by the CAW’s acceptance of similar modifications over the weekend, the UAW hasn’t proven nearly as accommodating of the concessions Ford has requested to its labor agreement. The new initiatives, which were approved by an 83% vote in Canada, were largely aimed at reducing labor costs and, ipso facto, the necessity of layoffs. Under the new plan, employees would have seen a reduction in paid vacation time, a widespread wage freeze, and restrictions on their rights to strike. Thereby freed of a significant amount of the financial burden currently weighing them down, Ford promised growth and a corresponding increase in job security.

Unfortunately, the UAW proved unwilling to part with their notoriously generous benefits and rejected the new deal in a 75% opposing vote. Ford is justifiably unhappy with the decision.

Mark Fields, president, The Americas, Ford Motor Company, introduces the 2011 Ford Super Duty to media at the 2009 State Fair of Texas in Dallas, Texas September 24, 2009.

Documents released by the federal courts today report that former Ford employee, 47-year-old Xiang Dong Yu (aka Mike Yu) of Beijing, China, has been federally indicted on charges of theft of trade secrets, attempted theft of trade secrets and unauthorized access to a protected computer. Apparently, Yu was employed as a product engineer by Ford’s China branch from 1997 through 2007 and on the eve of his resignation he allegedly downloaded copies of 4,000 classified documents detailing specifications for pending design projects. He then attempted to use the documents as leverage to gain employment with an undisclosed Chinese automotive company, though the information included in the indictment does not detail whether he was successful or not.

It’s been a rough week for Toyota. The giant automaker has been slapped with a restraining order by a Texas judge to prevent the company from potentially destroying any information about an alleged spate of rollover accidents. The plaintiff in the case, Dimitrios Biller, alleges that there is “a Watergate style cover-up underway at Toyota to undermine the American legal system.” Biller claims that Toyota has been conspiring to conceal evidence about the relative safety of their vehicles, and might destroy the documentation. If the allegations are true, Toyota might be in the midst of another safety-related fiasco, especially in light of the “floormat inferno” scandal raging at the moment. Is Toyota engaged in nefarious doings, or is it just so large now that it’s an easy target for frivolous suits? More and a press release from Biller’s attorney below.

Hertz, the largest rental car company in the world, has filed suit against Audit Integrity Inc. and its CEO Jack Zwingli for defamation after Audit named Hertz as one of 20 companies most likely to go bankrupt by the end of year. A huffy Hertz alleges that the report, published on September 15th, groundlessly accuses the rental conglomerate of fraudulent financial practices and intentionally inaccurate reporting, which unfairly damages the Hertz image. Apparently unimpressed with the grandstanding, Zwingli has displayed none of the plaintiff’s outrage and diplomatically challenged Hertz to bring it on, in more or less words.

You all might remember the rumors that circulated about the Pontiac G8 coming back stateside for police duty. Sadly for police recruiters nationwide, it’s not to be, and GM’s entrant into the field remains the painfully boring 2010 Chevy Impala 9C1 and 9C3 packages. No matter how much acclaim the Impala gets for being a halfway decent American midsize car, in cop trim it’s wrong-wheel drive and two cylinders short of a full interceptor deck. This is partially because you can’t equip the Impala SS’s excellent LS4 V8, which pumps out 303 HP. Instead, they’re stuck with the the current 3900-series V6, the LZG, which only makes 233 HP. Hey, at least it’s flex-fuel, right?

You order a bedroom set for your son, but when it arrives, the mattress you thought would be included in the deal is missing. What do you do? If you’re Robert Caton of Hampshire, UK, you guzzle two bottles of cheap whiskey, hop in your ‘83 Rolls-Royce, and plow through the store in a drunken, poorly conceived rampage. Oh, and not on the first try either – he made two unsuccessful attempts to raze the store before finally succeeding in careening the Roller through the window, causing roughly $100,000 worth of damage.

Track marshals recover the crashed Renault Formula One car of Nelson Piquet of Brazil during the Singapore F1 Grand Prix, September 28, 2008

This morning, the World Motor Sport Council convened in Paris to hand down the thunder to the ING Renault F1 team. Apparently, an exhaustive internal investigation conducted following Renault F1 driver Nelson Piquet Jr’s crash at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix revealed that the maneuver had been a deliberate one. Piquet, Renault director of engineering Pat Symonds, and Renault team boss Flavio Briatore were charged with purposefully orchestrating the crash in order to propel fellow Renault driver Fernando Alonso to the victory. In the face of the overwhelming evidence both Piquet and Symonds admitted to their guilt, but Briatore is remaining stoic.