I don't agree the vanilla Mustang is "too soft". When did we start equating "performance" with "aggressive"? The original Mustang wasn't aggressive, it was elegant.

Pathetic. I mean, egos are on the line in racing, and if you blow an important event it's gonna have an effect on your ego.

Sponsors on the other hand...

Or go seriously Euro and hop up the V6 with triple Webers, a hot cam and big valves. Should net about 180-200hp without incurring the massive front weight bias of a 302 in a Capri.

Some of these aren't race cars, though. That red-and-white Mercury Cyclone Spoiler for instance. I think what race cars and classic cars have in common is that we tend to view them in a less objective, less earnest light. They look so different from the cars we see on the street everyday that they inhabit a sort of…

Basically, what sunk the Corvair compared to the Mustang was that the performance models were pretty much "real" sportscars in the European mold - but Ford had figured out that what people wanted was sporty looks and flair, in a car that was otherwise as sedate and comfort-oriented as the cars they were used to.

Good thing it's not your bag. Because it's totally mine, and let me tell you, not only is it an almost supernatural time sink, some of the "database entries" (i.e. stories) are also legitimately frightening. Like, can't sleep frightening.

It reached much further than just South FL. My very own father - a respectable Georgia businessman by all appearances - managed to get the family fortune seized and only narrowly avoided jail time because as it turned out a good part of his activities involved investing other people's ill-gotten gains into his…

Not to mention that his grand plan to be a great man in today's world amounts to "Have 100 grand, buy Tesla". Also, I feel ya on the elitist thing - it's telling that he essentially equates "breadwinner" with "loser".

Oh wow. It's almost impressive how Mr Giesler manages to be a smarmy ass-kisser while also being a hugely arrogant and self-aggrandizing jagoff. Is this dude angling for a job a Tesla in case his awesome academic star doesn't quite rise? Or did he just wake up at his desk with a boner and figured he would just channel…

Fitting, seeing as how this might well end up being the apex of traditional automotive culture. There is just no way with cars being transformed so fundamentally, that the act of driving itself won't be in for a paradigm shift. You should count yourself lucky that you get to experience what I'd bet is the ultimate and…

I like the future this car promises, but I'm not sure it's quite an honest promise. I do think the technology will trickle down, and I think we have a fighting chance to avoid the whole climate-apocalypse thing.

He just uses hand controls with an ingenious (if challenging) set of hand controls

We make fun, but there are circles where having only one yacht is a source of serious social embarassment. It's among the leading causes of mild annoyance among the super rich, which if we eliminate the emotional damping factor of money, works out to severe anguish.

Ok, time for a little philosophic ranting. The modern Cadillacs are fine cars no doubt, but they also show clearer than ever that we as a nation have become just so sober, dour even, and I hate it. Handling and efficiency is all well and good, but where's that middle-finger? A Cadillac should be a little gauche. It…

Here's an unsettling thought: maybe they don't intend to market it with a V8. Perhaps the top-of-the-line engine will be a boosted V6... *shudder*

No, really, the A40's tuned versions were all over the racetracks back in the day, and the one driven by Pat Moss and Ann Wisdom at the 1959 Monte Carlo Rally came 2nd in class for standard series production touring cars up to 1000 cc and 10th overall.

That's unemployed actors for you, always trying extra hard in case a producer is watching.

I think Bechdel herself has said numerous times that she's quite the perfectionist and extensively references photographic material to get things to look just right. In that way she's very much an oldschool comic artist - not to knock on webcomics in general, there are some great ones, but with some you get the…

I see Torch finally found a story that enabled him to use a pic from that massive folder of shirtless John Barrowman pics he has on his hard drive. Hacking confirms the path is C:\Users\TheHumanTorch\Pictures\Assorted_Hawtness\JB_noshirt\