If the written account is accurate then the very first line of the conversation went thusly:

Pontiac LeMans. Just look at it. You can imagine blasting down the Mulsanne Straight at 588MPH.

the 787's livery seems to be fittingly appropriate for Christmas too!

I think it has to be a Nissan GTR. Reason being that almost every other large "sports car" is not a sports car but rather a muscle car or a GT cruiser. The GTR is huge and handles like it is tiny and corners like it is mocking physics. All other large cars just feel large and dont handle like sports cars (OK the new…

Oh Nissan GT-R.

Upon both competing in and participating in stage operations for Targa Newfoundland, keeping public vehicles off course is a bigger issue than most might think. Until this year, the rally featured many urban stages, in which case nearly the entire stage is lined with flagging tape while intersections are usually…

You're absolutely right that it looks faster than it is, but I'd give the non-WRC level guys a tad more credit. At Sno*Drift this year the top half of the field averaged over 40 mph, with the winner having an overall race average of 53. And on the fastest straights speeds approached 100. And that's without studs,…

I've never directly encountered a car on stage, but I've been to about three rallies where other competitors did. Unsurprisingly the nature and ownership of the roads has a lot to do with the likelihood of civilian intrusion. So, for example, New England Forest Rally, which is run on privately owned logging roads, is…

They race on roads that are open to the public for 364 days a year (every day but the day the rally uses it, and even on race day it's usually only closed for a few hours). The big issue is some rally roads can have dozens if not hundreds of entry points. Every intersection and every driveway is a possible point of…

Both cars are pretty light and its on snow so the car that got hit is going to slide a lot more than crumple. Still a pretty solid hit.

You lied, that pecan isn't cracked at all. Now I'm stuck with a pecan I refuse to eat because I know where it's been. I think I still owe my neighbor a gift, maybe I could sneak it into a gift basket for them.

How the hell does that happen? Somebody on the organizing committee needs an asskicking.

yeah I know! when I found out I was like all 'thanks holy man' but then I double checked and realized my employer was faking signatures. stunned.

I mean from a national perspective it makes no sense anyway, traffic law is not set at the national level, I'm just saying your random guess of how many cities would feel this is based on nothing and the fact that it doesn't mean anything to you adds nothing to the discussion. Yes the people in California benefit from…

wut

If you wanted to accomplish something, you shouldn't have placed your hopes on a We The People petition.

Where I live, this would do nothing to help traffic, and in fact most places in the US I suspect that's true. I would bet there are a dozen, maybe two dozen cities in the US total that would see marginally reduced traffic from lane splitting....why bring it to states that wont be affected? I'm on the fence about…

Yeah. But before that, he also died in a 550 Spyder.

We are on the same page. I scrolled to far and hit the wrong reply button. That was in response to the article. My kinja-fu not so strong.