Of course, I joke about the Mini's power, but here's the truth of the matter: when the Mark I Mini came out in 1959, it used an 848 cc four-cylinder engine that made just 34 horsepower. Fortunately, the car's engineers quickly realized just how absurdly small this figure was, and by 1984 they had devised a major…

Just like last week's Mercedes G-Wagen convertible, this Mini was generously loaned to me by my friends at Selden Motors in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. Here's a tip: when you show up at a car dealer and they can't get to their original Mini unless they move their Mercedes S55 AMG and their 1965 Ford Mustang, you know…

But seriously, I must be missing some important contractual obligation of yours when I ask: why the constant infomercials for your Twitter account? Surely you can't write anything off against it.

1:49 nonononononononono!

Oh how I wish I could find that picture of the guy selling his car that had his wife laying on the ground behind the car, holding a piece of paper in front of the plate.

Those are pretty funny actually.

Needs more of this:

Seeing as it seems to be getting bigger and flatter every rev, I can only think the trend will continue.

Looks like seat #2 is jacked up on top of some pretty intense bracing according to the previous picture. Good for the driver!

Usually, when you're pulling down a menu to find the make and model of your car for some website, you get a list of a couple dozen carmakers where the most exotic nameplate on the list is maybe Porsche or something. Drive a Sterling? A Land Rover? A La Forza? An Innocenti? Tough. Now you drive an 'other.'

This test was for the scenario where the wheel does not break apart. He sys it's the biggest piece that can come apart without the wheel breaking apart.

To be honest, I would have had this written sooner, but I was busy playing with the Porsche sales configurator. The only must-have options I added to the GT4 were the pricy full sport bucket seats from the GT3, and Sport Chrono package – which comes with a very cool telematics system and app that provide easy-to-use…

All of this will make passing impossible. See F1 in the 00's.

Had some work done. Tuned to stage 2. Does not look too bad for a modded car!

To be honest, I couldn't get much out him in this round. I was mostly interested in the next i car, but his PR skills shown through and he deftly dodged my questions.

And now, if you're interested in a video about the "making of" the PT Cruiser crush – complete with a cameo by Little Chris – please check it out here:

3. 2015 WRX, owned by same pal (who also makes Kartboy parts for Subaru, talented engineer) tuned for E85. Is already kind of a POS but cheap enough not to care. Wife semi-disappointed. Boys into it.

This is what happens when we let people refer to cars by the brand's name only:

"We'd do an SUV that is very light, very fast on the track and has outstanding handling," he said. "I'm a bit torn between an SUV and a four-door sports car — but in the end I can see that the SUV has the bigger market."

We've confirmed with Tesla that it's real and part of a software update (v5.9) that was pushed to the Model S nearly a year ago, and it took until now for someone to find it. Unfortunately, Tesla won't tell us how to do it or how it impacts range.