Sure you can use this much power and more, but everything has to work together to make it manageable. 700 HP in a RWD car with a forward weight bias and a manual transmission? Yes, that car would be almost useless but put that engine in the appropriate chassis with sequential transmission and you can push that car…

1st and 5th: I think we’re about to hit another AI winter in the next decade once the public find out what little it can achieve. AI companies ALWAYS overstate their capabilities.

I see a lot of moaning about the loss of the 4C Coupe, which looks good on paper and drives like a big shifter-cart, but...have you moaners actually driven one? I don’t demand a lot of practicality from a sports car, but this thing is almost useless as a street car - even more so than, say, a Lotus. Classic 70's…

Racing changed my life at several points, notably in my teens, twenties and early forties:

Nothing says 70's-era US fighter like the Gen-II Aston Martin Lagonda cluster.

The Hayabusa will be missed. The competition was good, especially the ZX-14 in later years, but nothing else had that “rheostat of the Gods” feeling of near electric-motor-ness that the Busa did. I still mutter “Busa power” under my breath, as if invoking a giant Japanese robot, when executing a pass or a fourth-gear…

Didn’t want to use the ancient and heavy Windsor 5.0, and I just wanted to use the SHO because I really liked the engine. And, for one shining moment, there was a company (the name of which escapes me) that made a simple “conversion kit” consisting of a bellhousing adapter and motor mounts. The fuel system and…

Precisely. I did have the results of the criminal proceedings that I could use in civil court, but he disappeared so that was that...

True story:

Dear God -

An engine swap is one thing, but there’s no way that I would have dropped-in that boat-anchor of a carb-ed 302 Windsor. CP all day...

This is my (current) specialty:

I read that, but I thought that the Jalopnik staff were journalists and would reach out to companies to ask for tours and such. Seriously, I’m trying really hard to not be sarcastic but it’s amazingly ironic to me that Jalopnik editors will call dozens of people when chasing some rather trivial stories but couldn’t…

I’m not a fan of Corvettes but, aside from the number produced, I don’t see why the line has to be drawn ‘above’ the Corvette because the performance envelope and the racing heritage puts most other “supercars” to shame.

The premise of this article, that the NSX plant is somehow “special” and this special-ness helps make better cars, is to know to be wrong by anyone involved in the industry. Automation, when used for the appropriate application (e.g. windshield installation), improves the quality of the finished product AND the…

As someone that’s beaten himself up by racing motorcycles and skydiving, I have no issue with the economics of automotive safety systems because I don’t want my family subjected to the injuries I’ve suffered over the years. And, because we’re a family of that generally lives 30+ miles from our respective offices,…

It’s not stock and I wouldn’t pay $12.9K for a build based on that lousy engine. CP at this price, NP at maybe half.

The Lotus is a great choice because of its telegraphic handling and toss-ability. The same can’t be said for the GT-R, which is great on the street but less so, in my opinion, at the track. It’s the “anti-Lotus”, not because of the electronics but because of the numb handling.

The people voting NP on this have never owned one and have needed to have it repaired. I owned an S in the mid 90s and it was, by far, the car that had the highest overall cost to repair. Seriously...the only thing that kept the cost manageable was owning a repair facility - I can’t imagine what anyone else would have…

Came here to say much the same...