@Hopman: Have you seen the videos from Road & Track putting a Hennessey Viper TT up against a Bugatti Veyron? It made the obese VW look like a Ford Explorer. I'd have been interested in seeing what that engine could do with a thousand pounds less curb weight. Kit cars with SBCs? It has been done. I didn't know LS9s…

Is it just an LS9? Weak. I thought it would be one of Hennessey's twin turbo Viper V10s.

$650 for $4 worth of plastic is a bargain in the Porsche parts world. If these were being sold from the Porsche parts counter, they'd have a dealer cost of $5.65 and a retail price of $1,798.

I've heard all the pro-splitting arguments. I live where lane splitting is common and in many forms legal. When I had a job that required me to commute in peak grid lock, I saw motorcycle accidents all the freaking time. I wonder about studies that produce results determining it to be safer, because I never saw as…

I think it is completely awsome that someone put 190K miles on a ZR-1. When these were new, the competitors were the Testarossa and the 964 Turbo. Not only did it have exotic performance for the time, here is one with double the miles of any original engine 964 Turbo and as many miles as all the Testarossas sold…

@reefer: Sarcasm FTW!

One time Symbolic had a couple 911s in their showroom along with a 997. The 911s were an R and a Carrera RS, IIRC. Between the two, they may have taken up the same floor space as the 997.

@McLovin2: The smallest Focus engine is 2 liters. While the Focus is about as light as the base Civic, it is only because we still have the same basic platform from a dozen years ago. The European Focus, which is now on its third generation, weighed a couple hundred pounds more in its second generation form.…

@woodicw: I would have on the day she took that photo, but her cells seem to be degenerating on a faster clock than some of us. At this moment, she may already be dust.

She has aged like milk on the hood of a car in August.

@alfasud: That was a Dutch Mitsubishi.

@Lotus7: Living in So Cal, I see pretty much every car sold in the past 5 decades that had any character pretty frequently. I haven't seen one of those since the '90s though. They may well have been tough to keep running.

@Richard Cook: Here are some quotes from Wikipedia's entry on lean burn:

@Dusty_Duster: Just about every 4-seat car sold in the USA is bigger than the original Honda Accord. Duh.

@danio3834: Perhaps, particularly when you consider that the first Civics were really super-minis rather than subcompacts. Still, the Civic and Corolla are about the leanest cars left in their class, hundreds of pounds lighter than cars like the Sentra, Jetta, Golf, and Mazda 3. They're also the only ones left with…

@Frozer: I saw two then new Mini Coopers flanking a BMW 2002 in 2004. They dwarfed the car that 'evolved' into todays near-two-ton BMW 3-series too.

Love the headline. I'd be excited to see what they can do with fuel injection, but ethanol ruins it. Leave the ethanol consumption to the fans, please. It is a low performance fuel with lousy energy density and it only helps the environment for various corrupt special interests. This could be what it takes to get me…

Turbos suck. Government Motors sucks. Saab always sucked. No surprises in any of this. But what the hell is with this guy getting paid for his opinion about cars without knowing enough to pull off onto the shoulder instead of the median when faced with a mechanical problem? And does a lean mixture in and of itself…

@PaulDobson: Particularly CNN viewers.

Your tax dollars at work.