I former coworker was a QC guy in the Ford Dearborn plant when Mustang and Capri were made there. He told me of Carpi shells that ended up getting built as Mustangs, so had the awesome fender bulges. Too bad they couldn’t keep them and had to be scrapped.

So, you traded it in for a Mazda?

Why will Uber fail? “We lose money on every ride, but we make it up in volume” is not a sound business plan.

The latest rumor is that they are moving a couple exits down the freeway to the former Toyota complex in Torrance.

And then they sell the loans and they get bundled into “asset-backed securities” leading to credit default swaps.

You want to solve the problem? Stop paying points beyond say, 25th place.

This. In China, human life is a consumable resource... they have too many already, and they’ll just make more.

The rule at Daytona is “if you’re slower, move lower.” The fastest car is always supposed to go to the top and lesser class cars move down the banking.

Vehicles have to be lab tested in the “worst” mode unless the car reverts back to it’s “economy/eco-friendly” mode each time the key is cycled off, and there had to be some special waiver type of form that had to be approved along with the certification application. . Back in my days of running emission tests, the…

Yes, they are now called IDI systems do differentiate them from the more modern Direct and Common-rail systems.

Here in the US, all an engineer would have to do in this situation would be to say “Gee, I wonder what CARB would say if they found out about this?” He might get paid handsomely to step off the bus on his own, but he sure wouldn’t get thrown under it because of the potential damage he could do.

Actually, it is: it only works under a speed/load range that you are going to find during an emission test. If you drive the car harder or rev the engine higher, the skip shift does not operate.

The drive of the year! That was fun to watch.

What kind of tires are they putting on these things... Hoosier A7's?

I remember only once when it was used for a helicopter... the rest of the time it was used for the annual October car show.

It’s all fun and games until that truck hooks a tire, climbs the wall and mows down the flag stand and photographers.

Very true. My brother is a city bus driver... his favorite saying is “The turn signal is not asking for permission, it’s telling you I’m going.”

Race cars have the right of way. ALWAYS.

You mean the Bentley Beluga?

My first thought was an older 3-series, like e36