European weights are publish dry, no fluids in the car. North American weights are published witht he car actually able to move under its own power.

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I usually point people to off lease Bimmers or Audis if they want euro-lux. Newer Subarus for winter capabilities (the newer Outbacks are quite nice).

Right on! Keep your kids involved with the passion and the car disease will transfer. I used to drop my daughter off at school in my Miata (sometime still with race livery in place). She learned to drive in that same Miata and swears by manual transmissions to this day. She has made us promise her the use of the…

I think if you have a cool car, it's your responsibility to gearhead culture to share it with oothers. My big Healey isn't anywhere near as bonkers as an Aventador, but it does get attention. I always try to accomodate conversations and pictures. People don't realize that just about everyone can have a "cool" car,…

You're killing me. I'd love to get a pic of you and me having beers with startinggrid and build race party stickers.

Gah! Let me think on this. Stupid job and responsibilities...

Oh man. That was a few minutes of joy followed by sadness. I didn't realize it's during the week; I can't get away from work for that long. A long weekend would have been a fun getaway.

I think Travis needs to wear a rainbow clown wig while driving this car so the photos can be tagged and identified as being of the Jalopweddinghini.

Damn... I was thinking of buying a ticket and flying out from Seattle for this. I now know I should have done that.

Any chance of a livestream of the panel?

Yep, on an educational visa obtained through the US Treasury department.

And surpisingly lots of Kias and Hyundais. I about strained my neck one day when I saw an Alfa 164 drive by. Biggest surprise was the '94-ish Ford Escort.

I know, right! The US even gives food aid to North Korea.

I visited Cuba this past January. It's an amazing place filled with increbidbly resiliant people. I took a ton of car pictures and have been slowly posting them on my blog (and will keep doing so in spite of the political carping I get - I travel to meet people, not support governments)

Anyway, Here are a couple cars…

A couple years ago up here in the Seattle area a Navy helicopter flew into a tight valley, under a bridge to rescue a kid who had fallen and injured herself. Impressive tight clearance flying.

Yeah, the Abarth does have a similar "alive"ness about it. You can rotate the car with weight transfer just like an old Rabbit GTI.

If we could ditch the electric steering, we'd get closer to the ITR's communicativeness. Add in a mechanical LSD and we'd be bang-on with the ITR.

Fiat! Bring me an Abarth "Corsa…

Yep, the hatchback can be had with a giant glass sunroof. That's what my car has, it's nice. The cloth roof offers more headroom though.

I've been surprised by how not friendly other Abarth drivers are when I encounter them in the wild. Just this week, I saw another white with red, just like mine and the driver refused to acknowledge my wave hello. Perhaps he thought I was hitting on him? Note that when I encounter other Abarths at autocrosses or the…

The Integra Type R is magic. I've never driven or autocrossed a front driver so good.

The Abarth is not bad, not on the same level as an ITR though...

My wife and I love our Abarth hatchback and are "this close" to trading it in on an Abarth cabriolet (AbCab? is that a thing?). Yes, the interior has hella chintzy platic in it. I don't care, the thing is just so damn fun to drive.

These are infectious little cars. I love it so much that I'm taking it on a week long…

Cool, thanks! I'll see what sort of deal I can get on a '13.