Okay I have a good story for you. I'll try and keep it short (but I'll fail.) I grew up in NYC, and never escaped. I grew up with a friend in the same building, his family and mine were very closely intertwined. Basically he was family, but not actually related and since we were both only children, kind of like a…

There does appear to be something of a trend with these peripheral technology products – they almost always don't work when they are chassis-based. You can give me the most intelligent active or reactive chassis festooned with adaptive dampers and springs made from a unicorn's rib-cage and in return I will let you…

Here in New York we have another breed of terrible drivers, they are usually black car / car service drivers rather than Yellow Cab drivers. They go, say about 40 mph when everyone else is going about 60 mph, but they can't seem to maintain a constant speed, nor do they understand the concept of coasting. It's like…

And I did this because none of us is ever more aware of the way a car and its driver looks, behaves, functions, smells and interacts with its environment than when we experience it from a taxi ride. This example looked fresh, well-tended. Taxis are risky. Lewis H thinks he's synapse-maxed when he heads out into F1…

I know that's not why they did it, but it sounds very Colin Chapman.

I have some serious trouble believing that the interior wasn't redone. Forget about no wear and tear marks on the upholstery, NO foam cushion can hold that kind of shape after 30 years and 195k. None, period, end of story, it was redone.

You should read the full story as it lays out the case nicely, as well as the history of the chemical's use.

Basically, we need a modern take on the Honda CR-X. The CR-X was a car that could be all things to so many people: cheap to buy and own, practical, and still a hoot to drive. There are modern cars that have some of those qualities, but none wrap up all three as well as the CR-X

How much do you really save when you cut a $1 part out of an important system in a car?

The success of the design really speaks volume and keeping things simple, minimalism and form following function. I think this is true about many iconic designs, especially ones that live on for decades. The 911 may have been more designed, but it was still about form follows function and it was simple too.

The really interesting thing here is that selling street cars because of race cars only seems to work when it works. As pointed out, the Corvette LeMans program in conjunction with the street product getting better and better has significantly raise that cars profile and I promise, brought a bunch of customers who…

By the way good luck and hope you enjoy the car when it comes. As I've mentioned in other comments I'm a counterman for a VW dealer, I haven't gotten to drive the MK VI yet but it looks a lot nicer than the V. I haven't seen any with performance packs yet either, but I'd be the last to know back here in parts.

I don't know how great a job I did explaining this, but it amounts to their number needs to be something achievable whether your a low or high altitude etc. It's a readily achievable and consistent number, not the best of pulls or even an average for the 3 best.

Okay, so I know the German OEM's in particular are very precise and conservative when it comes to dynoing and quoting horsepower. They have to account for all conditions and altitudes etc. that their cars are going to run in and so when they publish their numbers they are designed to be readily and reliably…

Tom, I don't intentionally mean to come off as a prick (I think Doug DeMuro all but called me an asshole when I posted this in the comments of his Ferrari on the dyno post,) but personally I can't do enough to kill this "15% drivetrain loss" myth. I highly encourage you do read this article, which I think is really…

Agree, also don't forget that JB put in a lot of time and some very impressive drives for both BAR and Honda in the years leading up to that.

I can't find anything that I trust a source. There is a lot of the the 1 GBP numbers, but there is also a few things that mention a price of about 70mill, which I find a lot more believable. There are also some suggestions that Honda funneled up to 40mill back to the buyer of the team. I didn't spend a lot of time on…

I'm not sure actually. I know it was very cheap, but I did not know it was something like that. I'll be goggling now.

When Porsche developed the 917, they were a tiny company by comparison, and they had never built a top-level prototype car. Going for an outright win at Le Mans for them was even riskier than what Ford did. Somehow, Porsche managed to pull off overall victory, and create a legend.

Then in steps Ross Brawn, who'd rustled up the required money to buy it, line up a couple of sponsors to keep the team going and take it over. I'll admit to thinking it was going to be a mid-pack team due to the team woes, but I probably wasn't the only one. Brawn made it work, despite all the many challenges that…