@AndyDuncan: And if you need any convincing look at Women's Indoor Track. It's track, but indoors. That's like saying Football and indoor Football are two different sports. It's a stupid way for Colleges to count their women's track team twice for the purpose of meeting title IX. Same athletes, same coach, same…

@AndyDuncan: Oh, and I do think we should encourage girls to play sports, and I understand that the disproportionate demand is, in itself, a reflection of a broken culture.

I strongly support women's sports but the issue I have with title IX is that the demand for spots on a team is not equal between men and women. Allocating 200 spots for women and 200 spots for men is unfair if 400 women want to play and 800 men do. Convincing enough women to fill up the teams so that they can let guys…

@avusone: A 100,000 mile warranty is a marketing statement, not an engineering one. Is it a good thing? Absolutely, but a warranty, any warranty, is part of the incentives package.

@philibuster: Yeah that was my first thought: "I guess the hydraulic ones didn't work out".

@FreeMan: @bripab007: Which is exactly my point.

@j6r: Fine, at 6-7 liters it does have a lot of torque and power packed into a small space. But I'm sick of Vette fanboys posting on every page that Car X would be better if it had an LS7 in it. It's a nice motor, it's not the be-all-end-all of motors.

@avusone: If you think the fact that the vette escapes the gas guzzler tax has to do with some magical property of the LS-series motor, then you're more of a fanboi than you sound like. Weight and an absurdly tall 6th gear are what get the vette it's mileage numbers.

Again, with more, in-ten-sit-y.

And it goes 0-stolen even faster than the regular Civic Mugen.

That's a pretty deep oil sump isn't it? I guess when you have an OHV motor you're not so worried about engine height.

That name is not nearly as cute on Monday as it was on Friday.

Rest in peace, brother Summerfield, may you frolic amongst the low mileage engine blocks at the big U-Pick in the sky.

@AndyDuncan: But, seriously, that's still a fast time and congrats to Caddy. I love the fact that GM is even starting to CARE about their Nurburgring lap times, nonetheless be competitive with these top marques.

I'd love to see a power board of lap times around an actual manufacturer's proving ground. You'd need several launches, complete stops, accelerating from a stop through a turn, high-speed turns, high speed straights, rough pavement, different pavement types, wet areas, etc. All with the same driver or a group of…

I wonder how many of those billions they spent developing the GMT-900 platform will go to waste, or if they'll sell enough of them before they make the transition to unibody construction.

@tenbeers: $854k and they're giving us hubcabs (I know, I know, it's an aero thing, but still).

@BuddyHinton: I don't believe they make the 135 in a 5-door even overseas.

@Matt Hardigree: You're right, it's just the m-sport version.

By the way, I think Phil has stumbled across something that is more interesting that you guys have given him credit for, that looks like a facelift to the existing 1-series. Note the new rear bumper.