Also, how in the fuck do you do a panning video shot on a small object traveling Mach 7?!

There's a team in Canada.

We need more vehicles that have “turbo” embroidered on the seats.

This post doesn’t say “exotic,” it says “spectacular.”

You guys are saying the same thing.

The 70’s were awesome!!! What happened?!?!

Purposeful mods, a tasteful presentation, and a price that's maybe a skosh high but a reasonable starting point. NP. But can someone tell me what the appeal of steering wheels of this ilk are? Ugh. And does the absence of the airbag mean the SRS light stays on all the time?

I know, right?!

The “ turbo rocket fluid” wasn't for cooling the turbo, per se. It was for preventing detonation by cooling the air fuel mixture, performing the same function as an intercooler would.

So is there a lesson here for the JSF? Design an aircraft to excel at one role and then adapt it to other roles creatively, rather than designing for multiple roles from the outset and risk ending up with an aircraft that doesn’t do any one thing particularly well?

Fair enough. To me, NPoCP is less about whether I personally like it and more about is it a fair price for what it is, even if it's not my jam. But hey, it's all for fun!

As far as I can tell, “Because I like it” is the Jalop reason for digging pretty much any car. Its wholly unnecessary for me to “get” why a person loves a Panther body or a Chevette or a Ferrari or a Pontiac Grand Prix.

I believe you are right. I had a Jetta with the SOHC 1.8 and the sales brochure quoted it at 10.1 or thereabouts. Maybe 8.5 for the later 16V. Maybe.

I would wager that a large majority of GTI buyers just don’t care what their cars weigh. They want a practical car that is fun to drive. For the relative handful people who do autocross and track days and whatever and get hung up about weight, fine. This isn't your car. But for everybody else, modern cars are just…

I think you mean a “quartet” of buttons, rather than a “quadrant.”

I'm willing to bet he doesn't give two shits about cars. Some societal construction of masculinity tells him he's supposed to like cars, and so he observes what the expensive, status-symbol cars are, and gets one every now and again.

I’m just imagining Kiwis saying “Drift trikes”. Dreeft troykes. I lived there for a year and I loves me some kiwi English. Also, this is insane.

Ah, I see where you’re going with this. I dunno - that eight doesn’t look very humanist to me. And the five is just brutal.

Helvetia is a sans-serif. Whatever Brabus useds is pretty clearly a slab serif.

The owner spent over $150K modifying a 2001 Mercedes ML, after which he said “Oh my God, what have I done? I’ve wasted my life!”