And the GT team is ran out of Indianapolis.

Agreed. I haven’t been to MIS in 20 years (back in the IROC days when Chrysler would invite people to show their cars in the infield) but I’m planning to get there this year at some point and check out what is left of that road course.

Another angle of the road course at MIS:

Meadowdale International Raceway (closed 1968, now a forest preserve called Raceway Woods):

It’s kind of amazing how few recession era Chrysler products you see on the road. I had completely forgotten about the Dodge Caliber until I saw one a couple days ago and I haven’t seen a Nitro in years.

Can you “ruin” a car that was shit to begin with?

Wasn’t the Nissan program relatively low budget? And they couldn’t compete with Audi/Porsche/Toyota with a traditional car?

Like this?

I couldn’t find it for sale but I present the lifted Raptor for honorary mention:

He received 17 citations before the plane was removed.

Eh, keep in mind that we’re talking about Kellyanne Conway here. I think anyone that has seen 5 minutes of an interview with her would enjoy telling her off.

They’re almost gone. They had 801 stores in October 2016 and announced the closing of 108 more in January. At their peak (2000) they had 2156 stores.

I would think any reputable shop would be charging you storage if a car was still in the shop 2 months after a repair. It’s not like an ES300 is going to be getting a rotisserie restoration.

“brand new car!”
“it’s a 96"

I just miss the days when I would go to the US Nationals and see 50+ pro stocks trying to make a 16 car field. The costs got out of control and pushed out anyone who couldn’t get a 7 figure sponsor... and now you need a multicar team for the data collection or you’re really starting on the back foot. When you factor…

This weekend, drag racing is back with the Circle K NHRA Winternationals in California. NHRA will be at Auto Club Raceway on Saturday and Sunday, and since the season is just starting, there’s nothing to catch you all up on!

Glassdoor says 98k for a Mech Engineer with 4-6 years experience? That’s probably 10-15k over what someone would make working for the Big 3 in Detroit but I’m sure cost of living would eat that up.

Probably a fraction of the people that are killed or injured in the ship breaking industry.

At the time of that spate of suicides Foxconn had nearly 1 million workers in its plants. There were up to 14 suicides (it depends whose count you want to use) among that 1 million. The average rate of suicide in China is 22 per 100,000 people per year. That is, the suicide rate at Foxconn was under 5% of the…

I never owned one but I owned my fair share of Honda products.

The Prelude has an aftermarket but when you compare it to an Integra/Civic it’s relatively small. Same could be said about the H series vs B series aftermarket.