Exactly! “Premature-corrected” sounds like the right terminology.

premature oppo-cation?

Yes, quality A-surfaces (those that the customer touches) should be a priority. #1 should be an excellent steering wheel.

It seems that he was expecting oversteer, but it didn’t?

I wonder what his tire pressure was.

I read this as meaning your two year-old now belongs to someone else. And then I started to wonder, would that person take my two year-old as well?

Not still, it died and was reborn.

If you think about it the whole popularity of SUVs in the US is that they’re bigger and taller than the station wagons they replaced. We (or rather the mommies of America that the US auto industry has so comprehensively hoodwinked) equate “bigger” and “taller” with “safer” and “better.” In the 1970s is was “wider” and…

All of the “limited edition” Bugatti’s. I mean, weren’t all Veyron’s limited edition?

Black Bess Legends Edition

Her 2008 Mazda, to be exact. No, it wasn’t her priceless sports car (likethe 1972 Ferrari Daytona stolen and set ablaze in Australia recently) that needed to be returned immediately or the world would come crashing down on life as we know it.

I think you’re right. Valuable things are worth repairing no matter what it takes. I used to own the same ax that George Washington used to chop down that cherry tree. It was in pretty bad shape though, so I restored it by replacing just the handle and the head. Now it looks brand new!

It’s been tried. Or at least, using the wheel or wheel cover to exhaust, which is the direction that makes sense. But for a race car with ducts, it probably offers little more cooling, and some weight penalty. For a road car, it’s unnecessary.

As an Australian, the myriad of GM and Ford brands competing in the same market in the US always looked idiotic to me.

The Dealerships.

Man, if your comment is to shit on another man’s pride and joy, you need to step up your comment game.

I want to say that I saw it done on an episode of “Wheeler Dealers”...ah yes, here it is...the one with the Ferrari. About 12 minutes into this episode:

Sure, I’ll take 8 million microwaveable burritos. 50 cents/ burrito to every 7/11 I can find. That will be 4 million in revenue. Deal!

Excuse me while I start a convenience store construction company that caters to the US Government in Afghanistan.

Hello gang. Would love to chat some more about Top Gear things and shamelessly promote my new book but duty calls. Stay tuned to the usual Jalop channels though because I hope we might be able to do a proper Q&A type thing in the near future. Ithangyoo. Richard