Is it possible to uncover what percentage of Porsche racing components carry over unchanged from a street car? To me, hearing that the, say, the crank shaft in a GT3 Cup car is a production line piece or the wheel bearings carry unchanged over means much more to me.

If you put two spaces in a text, iOS automatically inserts a period. Even Apple knows it...

I can see driving both and appreciating them as different cars. I love our BMW M5, and I love our 2002. But I get that the basic layout and roundel are all they share.

You could make it a loop, there are enough roads around there to get back to the start.

Just add another 10 miles to Road America, and it’ll work. In fact, it’d be pretty easy to just annex some of the roads around the track, many of them are as challenging as the track itself.

Unfortunately, I don’t think more people would do it if it were easier. People, as a whole, are more than OK with “Good Enough.” All-season tires are the definition of “Good Enough.” “Good Enough” got us MP3-quality sound, the PT Cruiser and 5 Police Academy movies.

Um, hitting a tree isn’t realistic for most people either.

This is precisely the case. There are whole studies devoted to “price elasticity.” And those folks who buy higher end cars are more likely to be “price insensitive.” It’s also why many gas stations only show the 87-Octane price and have to $0.30 to $0.40 step between grades. In places where all three/four grades…

As everyone else has said, it’s surprisingly intuitive once you actually are in the driver’s seat. For me, I had a tough time judging the passenger side of the car vs. curbs at first, but quickly got the hang of it.

I’ll just leave these here...

Mechanically, it’s 100% a stock 1996 Miata. It’s not a body kit, its the actual body to a 1934 Borgward that is sitting on a square tube chassis that ties the stock Mazda front and rear subframes together. The body is actually lighter a stock Miata by a little bit. We call it a rat rod because the body is bare metal.…

Well, this one still has all of its Miata bits. Mechanically from the pedal pads to the brake pads and everything in between, it’s a 1996 Miata. So, it still runs/drives like one... Looks-wise, no one knows what to do with it. It’s registered, by the way, as a 1934 Borgward Hansa 1100.

So, what if you TOTALLY rebodied a Miata with a pre-war German body and then rat rodded it? There’s something you don’t see everyday.

In the last 2-3 broadcasts, they’ve started giving Buxton more grid time, and having him send it to commercial. It used to be 1-2 grid interviews, then back to studio, but now it’s about a 10 minute uninterrupted grid walk. I’m okay with this.

I’ve run it many, many times on HPDE days. The straights are long, which leads to high speeds and heavy braking, which makes the walls close in some spots.

We bought the Peak tool. It covers our 1987 E30 and our E39, a 15-year span of cars.

Yes, that’s kind of what I was getting to... “teaching to the test” precisely.

If I can play Devil’s Advocate for a moment, I always figured that things like variable valve timing/lift pretty much took advantage of testing procedures openly.

Except this is a derivation of the more common 282-hp V-12. This particular engine, of which they made only a few thousand, will be much hard to get parts for if they are unique to this variant.

We use Uber when traveling internationally. Most recently, in Peru where the cost of every trip is negotiated in advance. Not only was Uber cheaper, but not having to haggle in a different language to our own was priceless.