David James?

I am much more excited for this than any modern sports car review!

It could've been much worse, as Pryce's car continued down the main straight at speed. It took out another car by the next turn, but nobody else was hurt.

That’s a good topic right there. I remember Car and Driver reviewing an early performance-oriented Lexus (late 90’s GS?). They had to go screaming down canyon roads at 90%+ before it actually felt like a car, and described it as, “perhaps too subtle for the talking primates who buy cars.”

I love the Compact, in its non-beefed up, practical-city-car-that-you-can-autocross getup. The 318ti is my #2 choice for a project car, had I a garage or driveway. I would make it look beautifully stock, and I would pay no more than $5,000 to buy it.

I SAW THIS YESTERDAY!

The old "our Germans are better than their Germans" joke from The Right Stuff aside, I always thought Soviet rocket design was so much more beautiful. NASA has never had any vehicle looking so graceful.

Seriously, more companies need offer these. Maybe Volvo does too?

I love everything about this photo. The high-mounted fuel tank and radiator, those brutal exhaust pipes, that old truck chassis with what looks like some under-deck crossbeams, the monster propeller, and of course, the driver.

It was on PBS in the 90's.

I think one of the real streetcar plans is to build on the Midtown Greenway, rather than Lake St., but it gets kinda funny around Hiawatha.

The Blue Line gets some nice traffic pre-empting on Hiawatha (took a couple years to work out the kinks), while the Green Line doesn't get the same on University, so the downtown-to-downtown trip takes almost as long as the 16 bus. It's all about the smooth ride and higher passenger count.

That is interesting, and it explains why there's so much talk about building modern streetcars.

"...Auuuuuuugggghhh!"

Most of Minneapolis and St. Paul look like this. The Twin Cities are a good example of pre-1950's urban sprawl. The streetcar network was so extensive (rivaling NYC in terms of track mileage), that not too many dense, apartment-heavy neighborhoods developed.

Oh gawd, the ambivalence!

Fair point. Black Widow spider silk it is!

• He buys underwear in bulk, wears them once and throws them out.

Labatt and Molsen split the vote, eh

Who really hated Duke before Laettner was around? Other than UNC or other locals? (this is coming from a Big Ten fan)