I disagree. That "pleasurably nervous feeling that I was embarking on an adventure" when taking the car out the garage; I understand this to mean an adventure in the sense that you don't know which of the car's f̶a̶u̶l̶t̶s̶ peculiarities is going to play up on a a particular day.

This going to terrible, no not the because of the truck, but because of the new breed of douches this vehicle will produce...
Imagine an unholy, satanic-matrimonial-incestous-merger of the pious holier than thou eco douche and the lifted monster tire Tapout-Affliction-trucknutz dudebro douche.

When I get rich. I'll found a company that will only produce the concepts which car-makers showed to get us behind them but never produced.

Just let me know when I can pick up my cert to the Skip Barber school.

Follow the dots listening to this:

“It’s a wonderful story and a good historical analysis,” said Thomas Mathia, a tribologist at French National Scientific Research Centre. “But it’s just a hypothesis.”

Chances are that VTEC kicked in.

What a stupidly complicated website. ARGH

Actually, the boy took his work to an obscure astrophysiscist initially. The scientists died in a tragic car crash, and the supernova wasn't reported until weeks later. The 10 year old was thought to have died as well, but, fortunately, the media found him at home with his family.

Maybe next time Christopher won't get in another...

For a guy who lives and dies rally. I um.. uuuuum... See this instead.

"In the future, we're going to have artificial man-made satellites in orbit which will allow us to transmit radio waves across the planet in real time, allowing for instantaneous telephone calls across the globe, and even live television broadcasts from other continents...........what is this "copy-right" of which you…

Arabic people. Kaliq/Khaliq means "Creator."

Glad somebody got to this before I did. I had trouble suspending my disbelief in Gravity... Everybody says "oh, it's a super realistic sci fi!" but very few things about it had any grounding in reality. The "chain reaction debris cloud" ? Nope. Spacewalking between the orbits of the Hubble and ISS on a backpack? Nope.…

Because they filmed it in Houston, in the actual control room. This room had lamps fitted sometime after the Apollo 13 mission when people realized that they needed more light to read. They probably hid the "enhanced lighting budget" line item in the Space Shuttle budget in the early '80s.

Nyad: I'm an Athiest, and I think things are awesome.

Listening to the list of mods, this car is about almost anything other than 1/4 mile times: brakes, aero, suspension - all irrelevant to drag racing, but critical to many other racing disciplines, any of which this car is awesome at.