If I could guess the thought process behind these wheels on the SC430 was probably to mimic Mercedes Benz, specifically S class type saloons. The SC430 in Japan is the Toyota Soarer, which was billed as an entry luxury gran tourer in that market. A buyer looking at a Soarer might have been looking at something like a…

I’ll probably pick up a ZN6 chassis at some point just to play around with. I only passed on it back when they came out because I didn’t think the car had enough guts. Yet the chassis itself is really good. And they’re starting to dip below five figures.

This may have been roughtly 51% of the reason I purchased a C5 Corvette; I needed the newest car I could get with pop ups and a Lotus Esprit wasn’t cutting it (which ironically in it’s dying days used the same hardware as C5 Corvettes that Lotus secured from GM).

You know, people and critics always seem to try and point out the Prowler’s supposed lack of power level, but they seem to forget that if you get into a 1999 and up year model you have (as you mentioned) 253 HP and 255 TQ. That is NOT poor performance numbers whatsoever for a car made before Y2K. Not only are you…

I would be down with people having to take a full refresher every so often after acquiring their license, like say every five years or so you have to re-take the written and practical portions of a driving exam, otherwise you cannot renew. Take myself. I’ve had a license for +25 years, and the only time I had to take…

Modern cars seem to go absolute bananas when their batteries are near discharged. It’s one thing to unplug a battery for service, but a general discharge tends to throw all sorts of things out of whack, from electronic throttles to various modules, and most of it tends to occur on start ups.

Automobile racing built itself on long length races. Many races in the early days would take upwards of half a day to complete (ex: the first Indianapolis 500 took just under seven hours to complete).

You have to have ‘gap’ insurance. Many providers offer this as an additional coverage on policy.

I actually said in a comment some time ago that it’s real fascinating how much we’re not looking at this sort of infrastructure when it comes to EVs.

It’s “AR”. Arkansas is AR. Alaska is AK. Arizona is AZ. Alabama is AL.

There’s some interesting prescedence with a NASCAR stock car racing an endurance race. Back in 1988, Bobby Allison entered a Buick Somerset into IMSA’s GTO class and ran at the 24 Hours of Daytona.

I believe gaming is more mainstream that you give it credit for. “Casual” is a lingering non-existent term in 2022.

The Chick-Fil-A that’s a few blocks from my house is the largest grossing restaurant in the ENTIRE state. That’s in every category and brand of food service, be it fast food or casual/fine dining and compared to other Chick-Fil-As; this Chick-Fil-A grosses the highest profit out of everyone.

I live in the very rural mid-west and I see them quite frequently strangly enough, which is good because people are actually putting miles on them and not storing them away for unexplainable reasons. Corvettes remain pretty popular here since we don’t have anything like a Porsche or Maserati or similar dealerships.…

It’s a shame this color only could be had on the coupe. Had Honda threw this onto the Type R it would have been a fantastic color for that model. The blues and the reds aren’t bad, but this on a Type R would have been a different level.

The MK7 Fiesta came in a color called Lime Squeeze. I actually bought a Fiesta in 2011 and really wanted that color in a hatchback, but couldn’t find it. Had to settle for Ingot Silver.

The National Corvette Museum has raffles every month. They’ve done it for quite some time now, and the proceeds go to fund the museum. They raffle anywhere from two to three cars. Most of them are limited = higher costs per ticket. However some of the raffles are unlimited = lower costs per ticket. Tickets have been…

Any port of the game is very decent sans the PS1 release (which can be played on a PS2, PS3, and easily emulated nowadays). It’s not that the PS1 version is ‘bad’ per say, but the issue is Chrono Trigger prided itself on battles fought seamlessly from walking to battle menus. In the SNES, and later DS & Steam ports…

We did get the regular Lancer in wagon form. Following 2002 when the Lancer finally made it’s way here as Lancer and not Mirage, Mitsubishi gave North American buyers the “sport back” starting in 2004. You could also buy it in RalliArt guise, although astoundingly the only transmission option for the RalliArt sport…

When I was a kid I was a massive Earnhardt Sr. fan. I remember watching him in the 80s and throughout the 90s. The “rivalry” of him and Jeff Gordon cannot be understated of how much of a marketing dream that was for NASCAR. Earnhardt Sr. was seen as the keeper of the old guard in the sport, whereas Gordon was a…