@spiegel1: came here to say this.. and was too slow.

SHAZAM!

Ok, at least I'm not the only one who didn't entirely get the comment but recognized the effort. I look forward to when my daughter is old enough for me to read Harry Potter with her though.

@buzz killington: Ha! I was wondering about that. I haven't autocrossed in ~16 years but when I did one of the problems I had as a newbie was getting confused and 'lost' from the lack of cones. I saw this course and immediately wondered if things had changed on the autox scene, lots and lots of cones! No getting lost…

@irishman72: Ahh good eye. The spontaneous combustion feature just shows how accurate the Chinese have gotten in their cloning efforts. Now that's an accurate copy!

@ThreeLitre: Must be the floor mats.

@pauljones: ahh Mr Jones, those of use that have been reading your comments for a while know that your Saturn has prematurely aged you.

@Elhigh: What about sticking to the high revving V8 theme and going with a Taurus SHO Yamaha V8?

I really have to give him a 10 for style. Very impressive air and he was considerate enough to apparently not hit anyone else.

@FodderTheSane: Cats are more like motorcycles or bicycles (can I mention bicycles around here?). They are small enough that everyone else thinks you're crazy well before you have so many that you think you should stop getting more of them.

@Psiu! Puxa!: Your 244 is the coolest car I have ever seen!: Seriously. A supercharger kit shouldn't cost as much as an entire crate engine.

@layabout: Welcome back (again).

@solracer: I had one of those. God I loved that car.

the BMW X3 will be available in all markets except for the US in a small diesel form. But the spectacularly unatractive but versitile Mahindra will.

@Middleswine: I LOL'd.

How much has tire technology changed in the last 7 years??? Maybe a second or two?

@fhrblig:

@Tanshanomi: Very well played. That would make a great new meme, SLR-guy, Civic-kid, and now KB.

@GoPadge: I went to Vietnam a few years ago and was really saddened by the environmental destruction they are incurring from their desire to manufacture things cheaply for both export and domestic use. People can complain all they want about EPA and regulations like that but go to a place that doesn't have controls…

@sdvictor: It's really funny, I am not a fanatical flag waver but I find myself increasingly becoming an economic nationalist. Whatever happened to the Made in America campaign of the 80's? Was it declared in violation of some trade agreement? Or was it simply that all of the companies that were still making things in…