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Cars,
collected.

Real cars, real numbers, turned into a collection you build. Five rarity tiers with the reason printed on every card. Sets to complete. A catalogue deep enough to argue with. And a rank that comes from days out, never from paying.

See what's inside Hear when it opens

Toyota Camry

Toyota · XV80 · 2024–present

Ferrari F40

Ferrari · F40 · 1987–1992

Civic Type R

Honda · FL5 · 2022–present

The cards

Rarity is real, with
the reason on every card

A tier is not a guess and not a mood. It comes from how many were built and how often one turns up, and the card says which. Nothing is rated until there is something to rate it with — a card that has no basis yet says so, rather than inventing one.

Common Uncommon Rare Epic Legendary

Flip for the facts Full specs & compare

Horsepower	478 hp
Torque	420 lb-ft
0–60	3.8 s
Engine	2.9 L twin-turbo V6
Drive	Rear-wheel drive
Weight	3,795 lb
Built	1,311
MSRP, last year	$74,500
Value, est.	$96,000–$134,000 US
In sets	Performance Icons

Every value carries its basis, and an estimate is always labelled an estimate. A figure nobody has published stays blank — it never borrows a number from a car beside it.

01A gem, a frame, a finishRare and above catch the light: a soft specular over the photo and a sheen that sweeps across, gone entirely under Reduce Motion. Legendary is full art — the photo is the whole face.
02The generation, not the yearA card names a generation and its chassis code — XV80, FL5, A90 — because that is what can be told apart honestly.
03Firsts are recordedFirst worldwide, first in your region, the only member in your city holding it. A card knows where it sat in the queue.
04ShareableAny card leaves as an image, with its tier, its ground and its finish intact.

The collection

A binder that fills
make by make

Your cards live in a binder, sorted by make, with every slot you have not filled still drawn in place. The page glows in the colour of your rarest card, so the screen's mood follows the collection rather than the calendar.

All makes · 6 of 14 By make

CLASSIFIED // UNDISCOVERED

01Your rarest, showcasedThe top of the collection is the banner of your best card under smoked glass, lit in its own tier's colour.
02Undiscovered, not hiddenA slot you have not filled still shows its shape. You can see what is missing without being told what it is.
03Counts that mean somethingCards held, sets complete, sets halfway, and the make you have the most of.
04Duplicates countA second copy of a card is marked ×2 rather than thrown away.

Sets

Something to finish

Sets are curated, not automatic: a rule someone chose, a list someone checked. Halfway earns something, complete earns more, and the shelf keeps the ones in progress at the front.

Golden Era Classics

Japanese performance, 1985 to 2002.

Performance Icons

Light, quick and built to be driven hard.

Adventure & Overlanding

Body-on-frame icons that go where roads stop.

Daily Drivers

The commuter sedans and hatchbacks people actually buy.

Heavy Haulers

Full-size pickups, as the EPA certifies them.

City Runabouts

Compact SUVs and hybrids for the city.

Under $25k & Thrifty

Current cars from under $25,000 that reach 30+ mpg.

Weekend Escapes & Snow

SUVs, wagons and trucks with all- or four-wheel drive.

First Sports Car

Modern roadsters, coupes and hot hatches to start with.

Sets in progress All sets

Golden Era Classics9 of 12 · halfway earned

Daily Drivers14 of 20

First Sports Car3 of 10 · 2 more to halfway

Explore

The whole catalogue,
by any road in

Search a make, a model or a chassis code. Or come at it sideways: by body style, by era, by a pack someone put together, by the rarest thing on the road — or by ear.

Makes, models or chassis codes

All brands Coupe Wagon Pickup 1990s 2020s Shopping

Hear them

Ferrari F4012 s · CC BY-SA

Honda Civic Type R9 s · CC BY

01Rarest on the roadRanked by how few were built, with the number beside each one.
02PacksThemed rails of models, each one counted, each one opening into the full list.
03Shopping badgesLowest price, best MPG, most power, quickest — computed from the catalogue, not editorialised.
04Rankings by segmentEvery segment has a table, and every table says what it sorted on.
05Read moreWritten features on cars worth a longer look, each with its byline and its reading time — and each one says plainly whether a person or a model wrote it.

Compare

Two cars, side by side,
and no thumb on the scale

Pick any two and the differences line up. What makes this worth trusting is what it refuses to do.

Spec	Civic Type R (FL5)	GR Corolla
Horsepower	315 hp	300 hp
Torque	310 lb-ft	273 lb-ft
Weight	3,188 lb	3,274 lb
Drive	Front-wheel drive	All-wheel drive
0–60	5.0 s	Not recorded
Value, est.	$42,000–$48,000 US	$38,000–$44,000 US

A missing value is not a matching value. "Not recorded" is a difference in the matrix, never quietly folded into an "identical" row. A gap in coverage is information too.

Some specs have no winner. Drivetrain and engine layout get no highlight, because neither direction is better — they are choices, not scores.

An estimate says so. Market value is always labelled an estimate, with its range, never printed as a price.

Under the hood

Twelve engines,
taken apart

Every engine layout in the catalogue, drawn as a schematic you peel back a layer at a time — cam cover, head and cams, block and pistons, crankshaft, oil pan — from the side, the front and the top. Your own cards are marked, so the ones you hold are the ones you learn first.

Schematic · not to scale · not any one car's engine

01Cam coverSeals the camshafts in oil, one ribbed cover over the head.
02Head and camsTwo camshafts open 16 valves, four per cylinder: two let air in, two let exhaust out. They turn at half the crank's speed.
03Block and pistonsFour cylinders in a straight row. The outer pair and the inner pair move opposite each other, which is why a four buzzes a little at high revs where a six stays smooth.
04CrankshaftTurns the pistons' push into rotation. Horsepower and torque are measured here, and how fast it may safely spin is the redline.
05Oil panHolds the oil the pump sends back up to every moving part.

Inline-four Flat-six V8 V12 Rotary All 12

Dream Garage

Three slots.
Choose carefully.

Not a wishlist of fifty cars — three. The one that does the commute, the one for a good road, and the one that tows and carries. It is a harder question than it looks, and it says more about you than a list ever would.

DailyHonda Civic Type RThe one that does the commute

WeekendFerrari F40The one for a good road

HaulerToyota TundraThe one that tows and carries

Garage challenge Enter this week

This week's rule: total MSRP under $150,000.

The editor sets one rule a week. Check back Monday.

Garage vs Garage

Tap the better garage. Everyone judges, everyone is judged, and the week's record is a straight percentage: won 63% of match-ups.

01Real numbers underneathTotal horsepower, MSRP from, towing figures — a garage is scored on what the cars actually do.
02Popular picksSee what everyone else put in each slot, which is half the fun and half the argument.
03ShareableYour three leave as one card, printed in the display face.

Play · today

A game a day,
with real cars

Short, daily, and drawn from the same catalogue as everything else — so the answer is always a real car you could meet.

Close-up

Name the car from a close-up of its photo. A new one every day.

Sound Check

Name the car from its exhaust note.

Battle

Your cards, real stats. The numbers decide it, not the artwork.

Trivia

Five a day.

Needs ID

Cars waiting for a name. Members put them right together.

Ranks

Bronze, Silver, Chrome, Gold — from days out, never from paying.

Bronze

Silver

Chrome

Gold

Patches sit beside the rank and each one counts something plainly: Binder (sets complete), Unicorn Hunter (Legendary), First on Scene (firsts), Curator, Studio, Print Run, Taste Maker, Sunday Regular, Local.

The Paddock

Where the arguing
gets done

Photos, videos and long-running debates, on a wall that belongs to the cars rather than to anybody's follower count. Nods instead of likes, replies that stay with the post, and a rank badge that had to be earned.

MmarcusDiscussion

Is the FL5 the last great manual hot hatch, or are we just saying that because we're scared?

41 nods · 23 replies

RrinaPhoto

Caught this F40 at a car park meet. Still can't believe the rear wing is that big in person.

128 nods · 9 replies

KkenjiVideo

Cold start, 6am, underground garage. Turn it up.

76 nods · 14 replies

01BuildsA thread for a car somebody actually owns, kept in one place as it changes.
02ShootsA set of photos of one car, presented as a shoot rather than scattered across a feed.
03FollowsFollow the members whose taste you like. There is no algorithm deciding for you.
04ClubsMarque and model clubs with their own leaderboards.

Posters

Make one. It gets read
before it gets shown.

A poster is your own art of a real car, with the specs underneath and up to a few words of your own. Every one goes through review before it reaches anybody's wall, and there is a published standard so the answer is never a mystery.

The standard

01Your own art, or art you generated. Nothing taken from someone else.
02No logos except the car's own badges.
03No game, film or brand references.
04No people, and no readable number plates.
05Leave the bottom third clear: the words go there.

01You keep the copyrightBurbles may show your poster with your credit, and you can withdraw it at any time.
02Nothing publishes itselfDraft, in review, published, needs changes, withdrawn — the status is always visible, and a rejection says what to change.
03RemixBuild on someone else's poster, with the link back to theirs kept intact.

Burbles Pro

Your club, your stats,
your frame

One plan. Nothing you've earned ever moves behind it — no card, no set, no rank. Pro adds room and tools, and that is the whole of the deal.

Unlimited clubsMarque and model clubs with their own leaderboards. Free joins two.

Your statsRarest finds, best month, most-collected make. Only you see it.

Year in SpottingYour year as a shareable recap. Every December.

More roomPin more sets, showcase more cards, a bigger garage.

Organiser toolsRun meets, take RSVPs, check people in. When meets launch.

Founder frame and flairA card frame nobody can earn and nobody can buy later.

The founding priceLocked for as long as you stay.

What stays freeYour collection, your sets, your rank, the catalogue, compare, the Paddock and a game a day.

What we don't do

No pins.
No plates. Ever.

A card records a model — never which individual car it was. No licence plate number, no VIN, no pin dropped on where anybody was. Your photos stay yours, and nothing you make is published until you choose to publish it.

Hear when it opens Read the privacy policy

That email goes to a person, not a mailing list. We'll use your address to answer you and to tell you when Burbles opens, and nothing else.

Languages

Six, in full

Not a machine pass over the buttons. Every string, every card, every explanation.

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