Back when I had an ‘06 Cooper S I took it to an autocross along with my track-prepped Porsche 944 Turbo S. The Mini was like 5 seconds faster around the course with the same driver. Those things handle very well.

Winner winner, chicken dinner.

Not a lot of demand for those over 50k miles, and that one has 86k. But honestly, those aren’t that bad to maintain. Lots of parts cross-listed with more common cars (brakes off a W126, Bosch components from a 5-series, etc.).

Nah, not nearly flawed or expensive to maintain enough. That’s just a *good* idea.

You gotta drug for the job you want, not the job you have.

I would invest in this. The number of people who hump my Autozam and ask if its electric is really astonishing. If it were an EV, I think I could have sold a dozen door-to-door by now.

I think Volkswagen thought of this in about 1968.

Very much like playing an arcade game, I’d think.

Agree. Baffling that it’s not on this list, given both the relevance of its themes and the lasting stark beauty of its images.

Nothing comes between a man and his Jeep.

+1000. I think the subtext of Hamlin’s point is that the NASCAR org should share more of the revenue from TV rights etc. with the teams themselves, in order to keep the field size similar. Similar arguments were had in the NBA, NFL, and MLB. I don’t have an opinion on that, but it’s a negotiation and I’m not going to…

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I’d like to think that a true Alfa Male is a guy who drives what he likes, but keeps a lot of tools around and expects to be stranded sometimes. Like dating a...er...passionate girl, some driving experiences are worth putting up with some temperamental behavior.

The FAA is already migrating people to GPS-based tracking, I’m told. Haven’t researched it myself.

#COTD

Oh, I understand this wouldn’t be cheap, nor would jump up and down and say that it should mandated in too short a timeframe. But as avionics & comms packages get upgraded in the natural course of things, it’s something that would make sense.

What MH370 teaches us is the need for better methods to track planes, and ideally to have ongoing telemetry transmission to enable troubleshooting and post-incident analysis.

That style of Bonneville got pretty good toward the end - there was, what, the SSEis version? That had something like 240 horsepower and was pretty damn fast for its era.

Remember the sorta-convertible one with the funky targa bar?

I remember this Monte being the car for recently-divorced and emphatically cougar-y single moms in their late 30s / early 40s and older steel mill guys that hadn’t quite made the scratch (or were paying too much alimony) to step up to a Riviera or a Park Avenue. Today I’d imagine the cougars are driving Mustangs &…