Depends on your criteria. For all around performance car, a Koenigsegg (amazing all around) or Porsche 911 (reliable enough to be used regularly, while still amazing) would be my votes.

But most beautiful? Probably Aston Martins. Technology? Koenigsegg/McLaren go back and forth. Attainable by a person without a…

Top Gear’d (TM)

So, I’ll share my thoughts here.

I kind of like it. I’ll never be able to afford it, so I don’t really care, but still, “neat”. Crossovers that don’t entirely suck are worth some positive attention I think.

...cool. So I’ll keep going with my plan to pick up a DB9 soon then.

That seems “about right”. My younger sister and I are pretty close (our families do things together about twice a month or so), and I’m close with my parents, which are more like friends once you’re 30+ years old. Beyond that, I have 2-3 friends that I’m close with, and about 15-20 that I “keep up with” regularly.

Any…

That looks sooooooooo much better. I saw a CTR in person last week, it’s way too over the top for me, and I drive a Focus ST in “bright freaking red” so it’s not like I’m a master of subtlety.

I think it looks kinda nice...

Wanna run yours against mine?

No?

Wanna buy it and put it back to stock?

No?

Then piss off.

BTW, I’ve built ~30 of them. Think of all the rotary cars I’ve defaced! I’ll build more too. Better buy all of ‘em yourself!

Nope, I was giggling and laughing watching it, as I was super giddy, but by the time it was done I had tears in my eyes. Pretty amazing, the type of paradigm shift happening in space travel right now is unique in a lifetime I think. I’ll always remember watching this happen.

I have a friend at a local Advance Auto Parts. It’s nice because if I need something that’s not on the floor, I can just walk back and get it myself or look it up in the computer.

‘88 TII.

I stopped at a local parts store (name redacted to protect the incompetent) a few years back for spark plugs. Specifically, I stopped for NGK BR7EF spark plugs, which were my plug of choice for my turbocharged LS1/RX7.

I’m 99% sure in old-school speak, the “turbo” was the exhaust driven turbine half of a turbosupercharger, hence the compound name.

I’m being super pedantic though. None of this matters, like, at all. LOL

FWIW, I learned all of this from Corky Bell’s “Maximum Boost” which is a fantastic book if you like turbocharging. …

In classic definition, a turbine driven supercharger was a turbosupercharger. The supercharger is the compressor. The drive method of the compressor is irrelevant.

Your drawing literally calls the turbocharger compressor a supercharger, just FYI.

Also a fun fact (as noted in your drawing). We call aftercoolers intercoolers, for some reason. Real intercoolers are as shown in the drawing, they’re in between stages. We have aftercoolers, or charge coolers, in 99% of setups.

Hi, I’m pedantic.

Were the seats really that disliked?

I want a freaking GTR. Damnit. Eventually I’m going to just buy one, and live it in after my wife divorces me.

The lead image is oddly poignant with the first story for me. I have pretty good credit and tend to swap out cars every few years, but I generally buy vs. lease as the numbers have always landed in my favor. Well the most recent car I traded was a MINI Cooper (same model/color as the one in the lead image,…