I first learned how to drive a manual while driving on the farm lane between my aunt and uncle's house and my grandparent's house. I was 10 years old and in a 1992 Ford Ranger. 3.0V6, short bed, supercab, 2wd. It was relatively easy because if I let out the clutch too abruptly it would just spin the tires because…
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Car and Driver clocked 3.9 for the A8.
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2013-a…
I rode in their test car. Fantastic.
Car and Driver clocked 3.6 for the S8.
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2013-a…
I read reports that they used a new monocoque.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.ph…
So they just built a new car and put number 1 on it.
Surprised rotary owners weren't on the list.
One of my dad's good friends lost his clutch leg in a motorcycle accident when he had a Z06 on order. He had to cancel his order and get an automagic C6. That is the only reason to ever purchase an automagic corvette.
Anything based on the 'J' platform. Growing up we had a 1995 Sunfire and a 2001 Sunfire. Both were complete piles.
I'm 6'4 with a long torso and I have never fit comfortably in a Miata with the top down. The drive is amazing, however the risk of head injury in a roll-over is just too much for me (line-of-sight was always above the windshield, so much so that looking at the windshield frame my LOS is at the same angle as the…
Paint durability? Glass durability?
Yep, fuck AWD. I don't want the extra weight. Give it to me diesel, manual, white, no sunroof, tinted. TYVM.
FB RX-7. I'm 6'4, 210 pounds and have a super long torso, and so long as it's a non-sunroof model (I owned a base 'S' built the same month I was born: 6/1985) it was supremely comfortable. Tons of leg room and adequate headroom. That, and it was a great car to drive.
I cycle in Malibu Canyon. Fuck me.
We were leaving a concert at the Pontiac Silverdome back in 2003. There were four of us, all between 170 and 230 in a ~1990 Mercury Tracer. 1.9l of fury and an automagic. We were pulled over because the cop thought we were drunk because of the constant changing of speeds. He laughed at us when we said that the…
Bonerrific.
Neither street view nor Google Earth has recent imagery/anything that has a pic of his FB.
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/george-r-r…
The grainy photo makes it hard to tell, but it looks like it's lacking a sunroof and rear badging on the drivers side, which indicates that it's a 12a with rear drums and an open diff (I had the exact same color and model before moving to LA).
8 speed is a reality. One of the kids I went to high school with told me about 4 years ago that he was on the design team for a 'Vette 8-speed torque-converter auto.
I went to college at Michigan Technological University, consistently voted one of the top 5 snowiest places in the country. The kid that lived next to me in the dorms daily drove a NA Miata year round. We averaged 240 inches per year. A set of blizzaks and two 60-pound bags of sand and he almost never girls stuck.…
Phil Sohn's 20b FD: