Well Mythbusters is gone so what about doing it on the Grand Tour. Perhaps Richard Hammond could test it out. I’ll start a go fund me for the funeral expenses..

Sure, you’re going to decrease street racing, but this is almost certainly going to increase street pro-wrestling matches.

This whole article series has been excellent. Very interesting to see a salvage high performance car bought a low price and turned to a Pikes Peak race car and then becoming the faster Corvette ever up the mountain, with room for improvement still. Please do contribute more to Jalopnik.

So...if I’m math’ing right...

When the original Love Bug movie came out; the loveable, but antequated, Herbie was a 5-year old Beetle (‘63 Beetle; movie came out in ‘68).

So, can our new herbie be a 2012 Scion IQ?

I will put money on it that Herbie isn’t even a Beetle. It will be a new Mini Cooper, a Prius or a refrigerator.

McLaren have made it clear that squirrel ring times are completely unimportant and, frankly, dangerous.

That was just the popping and backfiring typical of a squirrel equipped with an anti-lag system

At the risk of taking a silly post too seriously, the primary steering method on a motorcycle is leaning to one side or the other and shifting the center of gravity. That seems fundamental enough to say that cars are not just 4 wheeled motorcycles.

You monster! You would hack off the vertical stabilizer and leave that poor airliner to wobble its way across the sky until it did a horrible death?

Vertical stabilizer, not engine. The taste is nothing to write home about but texture and +10 social status make up for it.

Actually, space travel is the safest form of travel (when measured by deaths per distance traveled). Interestingly, it’s also the most dangerous form of travel (when measured in deaths per trip).

I feel that old Chinese woman’s pain. And with that, it’s time for another of DMCVegas’ Storytime Stories...

We might think this is a silly tradition, but really what she was doing was weakening the plane enough that she could kill it and make a soup out of it to gain its power of flight.

Rental car companies make the vast majority of their revenue on business travel. This idea lives or dies based on whether or not it becomes accepted practice to allow people to expense a more expensive driverless car. As for me, even though I love to drive, I would probably want to do this 50-75% of the time so I…

Do those come standard with TPMS? Obviously 1.5psi too low on the tracks.

this is a good question. I want to know the incident rate compared against other dangerous industries. is the growth rate high but that means 3 accidents per year versus 4? And compared against 10-20 in other sectors? Critical info missing.

Ok. No.