I had a Subaru. It was not. I then supercharged it. It was even less so. It then threw a rod. I was not surprised.

Is that.... Is that a bodykitted Tesla? WTF.

What college has an R8 and a low rider Lincoln? Damn.

Damondrummer7, did your 818 later have a problem with fuel starve that you solved with a Radium surge tank? If so, hey, congrats again on getting it road legal! I got the S4 running right.

AKA Northeastern NY. The nearest C&C is in Syracuse. Hell, most of the northeastern US.

Well, yeah. But it will work, it just won’t work well. After all, at least for tip in it’s basically just a carburetor’s accel pump.

Technically grinding the caps off the injector ends will let them flow more fuel. It's just a squirt rather than a finely atomized spray...

One interesting point though- due to the way a full course yellow is handled in the series, there’s still likely going to be some cars going around the course at full speed, so while it may reduce the chance of a similar collision, it hardly removes it.

Don’t fret yet, there’s still plenty of hours left, and without attempting to jinx anyone, 67's been holding strong.

The fact that the last two paragraphs of the article were only added as an EDIT shows the whole goal of this Jalopnik article was to just stir up shit. Either it was willingly not included or it wasn't read all the way through before this got written. Torch, I get enough click bait on Facebook already. If you wanted…

Worked in Ithaca over the summer up to January. We didn’t even have any big storms while I was there, but I had bought a “new” car right before my winter-tire equipped Subaru blew up.

Let’s get this out of the way already- I'm a New Yorker, and it's currently sunny and 14F where I am. Ironically, that's the Canadian border, but the point is, still a New Yorker.

Obviously some of these are serious, but am I the only one who reads of a lot of these and thinks “did that really require a trip to the ER/Doctor?”

Wait, so you would have preferred Rey going back to Jakku and Finn fleeing to the outer rim? Because that’s basically what would have happened if Han lived. They’d follow his commands as “that hero from literal legend” until either the resistance lost, or won, or Han died, then they would both leave. Hell, Rey may…

That was less awful than I expected, though I admit some of those repairs can drive a person nuts. At least most of your rustbags share similar parts- my fleet has Japanese, American, German and English cars of so many different eras I’ll never have parts to share. To wit: 1950 Hudson Commodore, 1966 VW Type III, 1983…

When my car died, it did so valiantly. There was never complaint, or cringing, or even sign of distress. It bore itself as a vehicle of honor and with unshakable pride, until the very instant it was no more. Rod #4, you died a proud and respected piece of supercharged, overheated cast steel.

Interestingly while we have the same name, I have to disagree with you, some cars are just difficult to drive smoothly. Our Lotus Elan +2 has a stiff metallic clutch, and about 13 ft-lbs. That takes a significant amount of RPM to get moving smoothly.

Sometimes though, the car gets uppity... Not two days after I bought my now DD ‘93 S4, my until-then DD Supercharged Impreza decided it had had enough and threw a rod (zero warning, cruising at 60) about 40 miles from my destination... Which was about 30 miles from anything. On a Sunday. At 8PM. When the tow truck…

As much as the C7 has really stepped up the game, there’s not many cars I would have over a Viper, especially the TA variant.

That said I can’t afford any of them anyway....

Basically “We didn’t get the chance to have our F1 engineers tune it to outperform the other two, so it’s not fair!”