Yeah, I’ve got a 6.2L and six speed. I can appreciate a compact on a back road though, my girlfriend’s 5 speed Civic is a good time too.

Sweet merciful giblets, “only” 4,300 rpm? I turn maybe 2,000 rpm at 80 mph.

It’s really going to come down to road design and terrain. If you’re on a divided highway that doesn’t have at-grade intersections, and the stopping sight distance for the road supports 80 mph, then there’s no reason to not allow it.

Same here. My strut tower brace is in need of a more through sticker bombing, and I’d love to slap a Jalopnik sticker on it.

hey now, I've been on the job a year as of yesterday as a water/wastewater engineer, and my only car is a Camaro with an LS3, TR6060, no sunroof, and a bunch of suspension mods. The other young guy I work with has an SRT8 Challenger, and two G body Monte Carlos. But other than that, yeah it's almost all quarter ton…

I’ll take a base trim GT350 in Magnetic with the track package, please:

I’ve always thought the Sebring/200 looked particularly bad in profile. The tiny trunk, long front overhang, the abrupt roofline that looks like it should keep going, it’s just not put together well.

I get what you’re saying, although if i was a man of means, and could comfortably afford a CTS-V over a regular CTS, I’d do it. Granted, if I bought something like a CTS-V, I’d use it to excite and/or terrify my passengers, beat it through the autocross, and actually get out on track (If I could afford a CTS-V, I…

See, now this is some thinking I can get behind!

Hey, I may not be able to have a hood, and the radiator may have to be remote mounted, and there will be so much weight over the nose that it’ll do endos...but the noise!

Since we’re throwing Huracan parts in there, I’ll take a Huracan engine while we’re at it, please.

I rode in a C7 Zo6 at an autocross this past weekend. My car is no slouch, but the Z06 made it feel absolutely slow. I could see modding it if you’ve had it for a while and have gotten used to it, or if you’ve owned other 700+ hp cars, but getting into one after riding in anything else that comes close to being a…

It’s not really a repair, per se, but it is a project I’ve been putting off. I got some wide summer wheels/tires (10.5 inch wide wheels w/295 section tires all around) and they’re basically sandblasting my quarter panels. I bought some big universal mudflaps to make rosk guards out of, but so far I haven’t actually…

I think there’s a phrase for that in my home country. Something along the lines of suck...my balls, I think?

I’m kind of guilty of #3. Last weekend, the weather at the autocross was pretty hot, and I had initially turned my a/c on, and forgot about it. A couple runs in, they announced that whoever had their a/c on should turn it off, because they were leaving condensate at the start line. the carters were not amused.

I was actually talking to one of my friends about this the other day. All Volvo needs to do is engineer the next S40/V50 platform to accept the all-wheel hybrid setup. Then, insert the 2.0T/battery pack from the T8 XC90, and sell it here. Let Polestar handle the chassis work, and you’ll have a practical car with tidy…

Hmm, good point. It would be an interesting problem to play with. I’d be curious to see the rates of expansion for an asphalt emulsion compared to the grade of plastic they’re planning on using. Or, depending on the fatigue rate of the plastic, making sacrificial spots in it to allow for more expansion... Mostly, this…

As a civil engineer who specialized in transportation design in school, I think there’s a little more promise here than in the glass/other road ideas that have been floating around. I don’t know that it’ll work in straight-plastic form, as shown above, but with a few relatively simple modifications, like a thin…

My primary concerns would be UV exposure, heat, and wear, like you mentioned. As long as you make the bottom and sides permeable, and physically lock the sections together, the issues caused by water should be largely eliminated. I think they could look at solving the UV exposure issue and the wear issues by utilizing…

Hold up, wait just a minute.