Why walk to see all that art, when you could tear past them sideways in a little French sports car?

Holy crap that brought back some memories! Spent a lot of time there.

Ford agreed to buy back my 2013 Focus ST after 11 months of unresolved issues. And I've spent months in a regular Focus loaner. NOT the same quality AT ALL. I get your point, but I think your wrong, cost per mile especially when longevity is factored in is in Toyota's favor.

Cost of ownership of the Prius is just $0.47 per mile, which is pretty damn impressive. Too bad you'll be bored out of your mind the whole time. If you want to get a bad value, why not get a Nissan Armada? It costs a full $1.20 per mile to operate. That's no va bene.

It sounds like it's a car geared toward the true enthusiast, and then engineered so that it let's them down in all the exact areas that matter to them. (Real transmission, steering feel etc.) Or did I misread the review?

To me it's not the motor that makes it look strange, it's the completely lack of anything protecting the driver. Again, another reminder to thank Prof. Sid Watkins mandating the high cockpits in 1996! Amazing to see this and think about where we are now.

So we think the E-Type is the all but the epitome of female beauty? Well, sometimes "A cigar is just a cigar." Suuuuuurrrrreeee....

Actually they just agreed (finally) to take it back. It hasn't actually happened yet and it's kind of fishy because they make you sign an agreement binding you before they ever do an valuation of your car etc. But you sign it anyway and go forward hoping for the best because you don't have much of an option. Ford as…

Are you using magnesium exhaust?

That is actually about how long it took for me to order it. And six weeks was just the past time. It's been in for a six week stretch, a 9 week stretch etc. Over 160 days in all. Ford quality, and their dealer network is equally as competent as their factories are at building the cars.

Yup, I bought a 2013 Focus ST. Ordered in December and arrived in Feb. Actually produced on the very last day of the first-runs before the mid-model-year updates were implemented. Needless to say, disaster, still have about 906 miles on it and haven't seen it in six weeks.

Only been once, I was up at Elk Heart Lake and on Saturday night we went over to the dirt oval in Plymouth. Good times.

Thinking about this a bit, I realize that probably the old Hockenheimring is perhaps the absolute best example of the Europe's idea of an oval:

I didn't, wanted to stir the pot a little ; ) Frankly I don't have much interested in oval stuff, but I have to say, dirt track oval is another story.

That's because the rest of the world knows road-racing is where it's at, and they didn't have a bunch of closed down horse-tracks, but rather had to block off (only sometimes) public roads.

I second this (especially pre-chicane,) though I know it's a loosing battle.

Monaco is also outside of the regulation length, but gets a pass Because Monaco (this is true, has to do with the circuit history.) Other potential issues would be that they would have to build garages with direct drive in/out access to the pit road and I'm pretty sure the track won't meet that FIA's requirement for…

I mentioned in a separate comment here, Stand On It By Stroker Ace. It's fiction, it's silly for sure, but I say worth the read. I also have a vague memory of a Choose Your Own Adventure involving a race and cars, but I doubt it was any good.

I'm not a huge fan of O'Rourke, but there are some pretty entertaining stories in this one.

Absolute number book should and needs to be Life At The Limit by Prof. Sid Watkins. If you've read it, you understand and if you haven't, you need to: http://www.amazon.com/Life-At-Limit-…