On this day in 2008, a man from Belgium named Luc Costermans sets a new world speed record for blind drivers: 192 mph. Costermans set the record in a borrowed Lamborghini Gallardo on a long, straight stretch of airstrip near Marseilles, France. He was accompanied by a carload of sophisticated navigational equipment as…

Let me say that I am NOT a Red Bull or Vettel fan, but I do have respect (and lack of respect,) for them. Like it or not, I think the sport has always been about being on the ragged edge of what is legal and what is not, (isn't that called innovation?) So if they have figured something out I don't hold it against…

John Frankenheimer managed to do it I'm the 60's. I'm not saying every track, but some like Monza should have been accessible enough. I know the film was essentially and independent production, and while they had lots of money, I'm sure budget was still an option.

Re: Number Six.
This law or a closer variation of it exists in several states (5), check out this amazing and handy website about radar detector, scanner and cell phone laws (I've been referring to it for over a decade I think, major +internets to the site owner who has kept it going and updated all these years,) http:/…

Also, who's to say that CGR is the only team NASCAR gave / gives money to? It's just the only one we now know about. I'd bet there are others of varying degrees. Oh, and how / why do you think GM developed a Corvette DP car? To sell the new mid-engined Corvette and promote the brand?

The controversial part of this whole arrangement is that a conflict of interest arises when one team that repeatedly wins championships seems to be backed by the race organization itself. It would be the equivalent of Bernie Ecclestone continuously feeding funds into Red Bull Racing in Formula One.

Sure, it may be the cause of significantly altered behavioral effects and it may be banned in Denmark, Belgium, France, and Switzerland, but it can't be too bad. Right?

My counter point to the movie. I was disappointed:

Yeah, everyone says the quality of Ford's are so great. Must be a special press-car fleet or something. I don't get it. And instead of Ford wanting happy customers, they just want to run away and pretend you don't exist.

With Ford? With a Focus ST? (It's nice to know your not alone or crazy, even if I am both.)

Yeah I paid X-Plan on my Focus ST. Unfortunately I hadn't dealt with Ford CS so I couldn't find a reason not to go for it.

Ha! I work at a VW dealership, which is really ironic that I went out of my way to buy the ST. Once my lawyer gets me out of it one way or another (probably in a pre-litigation settlement where I can use the money to compensate what I'll loose trading it in; actually litigating under the lemon law takes 2-3 years.)…

I didn't check what you said, but I believe you. However, the Nazi war effort happening years before the US declared war and this was there was a lot of controversy over what the German Ford factories were doing. Henry Ford himself was a little uncomfortable close to The Fuhrer and received the Iron Cross, Germany's…

Without having had the experience of actually owning them, I am under the impression that UK Ford and German Ford may as well be considered different companies when it comes the the products and the actual units they produce. (While not exactly relevant, the history of German Ford and the Nazi government is kind of…

This guy really loves it and frankly I wish I was him. When a car is special enough, it's worth doing no matter the total value of the car, in my opinion. Otherwise we'd loose all those "cheap" performance models like the GTI, the SPG etc.

Doesn't matter. Car enthusiasts pay the most attention and, while our demands can sometimes be a bit whacky, there's collective insight there. Clearly, we were right.

I owned a '90 SPG. Simply a great car, I miss it badly. Then again the guy I sold it to keeps me updated from time to time and last I heard he was having to have a whole new floor welded in because of rust. So yeah... rust. In addition, he did a trans rebuild in his first year of ownership and much, much more. Oh and…

And somebody changed the pictures to make me look like an asshole. Nice move internet.

Indeed!

They don't have duplicates of all equipment. Also, they have a fly-away setup and they have a ground setup. Some duplicate equipment, but it's mostly how it packaged and what they choose to bring and what the leave behind. For example there are whole back rooms of computers for the engineering staff, for the…