My childhood sucked. Thanks, Peter.

Dan Gurney invented so many things we just take for granted now. The guy was a racing genius.

Yes. There are rumors that he'll go to WRC when he retires, as it seems his F1 link has closed up somewhat. He says he loves rallying the most (after motorcycles, of course).

This car inspired the most imitators. No, not the body; the chassis. Of all the imitations on this list, nearly every single one of them can be built on this platform. When imitators think of imitating, they unwaveringly think Fiero. Now that's inspiration.

The Cobra* is the most replicated car... in the wuuurld. Literally, by an exponential amount. Shelby and his lawyers be damned.**

Martin, I think you've pinpointed the way to stop people from complaining about their answer not being in the list. I don't even care what the rest of the list is. A fair number of people may not actually realize that there are other images on this page. Well played.

Where do you live? City, state.

It's weird, never was that great, and it's way too expensive. CP all day long.

Not much. Most of Pikes Peak isn't that fast, aero-wise. The few short straights invariably lead back to fairly twisty turns. While the GoPro isn't aerodynamic, it is only about the size of your palm, so its impact isn't huge.

Kick-start, yes. But not just kick-start. It's one of the original new generation four-stroke MX racers - as in, before there was automatic decompression (it's a 2002 YZ250F). There was many a magazine essay written about the black art of getting these things to light. If you just hop on and try to kick it, you'll…

Buell rider. This all makes sense now.

Computers don't wear shoes! [jalopnik.com]

Yes, very important. No excuses for champs, right Matt? I guess Alonso didn't have much to say getting beaten straight up.

I had forgotten about that fact... thanks for posting that up.

Nice Porsche.

Your presumption that all "urban areas" of 50,000 or more have (much less, have practical) public transportation is laughable. Effectively, you want to tell ~45 million people that they can't drive a car. Which, in almost every case, is their only way of getting a job. Yeah, I'm sure that wouldn't have any negative…

As I recall, that was the result a mechanical failure. The bike crash, as I recall, was not.

If fine is breaking your neck, then yeah, Schumi did fine...

You're welcome to join me at the nearest motocross track and ride my race bike any time. If you can get it started without 5 minutes of instruction, I'll give you an award. Then I'll video you on the track and put it on the internet for everyone to laugh at.

Not necessarily true. Nicky is a full-time motorcycle racer and has been his entire life. When motorcycle guys go to cars competitively, they tend to do much better than the other way around. For comparison, see this list: [www.superbikeplanet.com] vs a guy you may have heard of, Michael Schumacher (he was…