This is an excellent, if extremely difficult to execute, idea.

How about we do a legal Cannonball Run? No set route, you just try to optimize speed limits, distance, traffic and fuel in real time. Brake, corner and accelerate as hard as you want without being pulled or going over the limit. No roads? No problem if you can catch up and don't get stuck! Not as fun but not as…

I beat his time a few times a year, by about a full day. At 35K feet, sipping cocktails in first class. Doing it in a car is stupid.

Let’s see - in my garage in Maine I have a 230hp BMW wagon, a 190hp Land Rover Disco I, and an 80hp Triumph Spitfire. That’s 500hp! Cost me about $50K all together

None. None people have a specific power output as their metric.

You’re ignoring the fact that it is dangerous when a large speed differential exists. This has been proven multiple times. If you are travelling at a rate of speed that is 100% greater than the traffic around you, then you are not driving defensively at all.

The Cannonball run sounds like fun except for the dangerous and illegal part. I think it would be better to do it in something like this:

If I were president, I’d call for a legal race across America on the Sunday nearest Summer Solstice, with rolling shutdowns of the interstate system. I’d call it “Sea to Shining Sea” with a sunrise start and possibly a sunset finish (20 hours?). Nor sure what kind of race cars that could pull that off, probably Lemans…

Actually... AVERAGING 80mph while driving any distance is pretty stout when you factor in fuel stops. Doing it as they did in a Ferrari Daytona meant that they were likely stopping for gas every two hours, at the most.

I beat his record every year. They’re called airplanes, dude.

Or you could just decide not to do something stupid and dangerous.

Look just because he is a “friend of the site” doesn’t mean you guys should promote this dangers bullshit. 

I think the problem is that NOBODY on this website has mixed feelings about the kind of street racing that takes place in the city. And now to have mixed feelings about another kind of illegal street racing.. it seems hypocritical.

Yeah it’s cool as long as you know the guy and he’s a ‘bon vivant of speed’. :: wanking motion ::

So we are against street racing unless it’s a across the country?

Guaranteed that cologne and that beer are the same product in different packages.

Texas senator Ted Cruz, who is a Rockets fan, condemned the NBA’s stance on Sunday. “We’re better than this; human rights shouldn’t be for sale & the NBA shouldn’t be assisting Chinese communist censorship,” he wrote on Twitter.  {Guardian}

Where do you see wealth politics? I see perfectly legitimate questioning of the environmental impact of services like this in the last fifth of a long and detailed article. Should the extremely valid concerns raised by carbon-powered transport not be covered on a site that’s dedicated to the subject of motor vehicles?

Considering a cab to JFK from Manhattan is a flat $65 fare, will likely take about an hour or so if you’re lucky, and public transportation options can take even longer while being a pain with luggage.

Let’s see - in my garage in Maine I have a 230hp BMW wagon, a 190hp Land Rover Disco I, and an 80hp Triumph Spitfire. That’s 500hp! Cost me about $50K all together - I bought the BMW new. Lots more useful than any single car you can buy with 500hp too, and covers all the seasons quite nicely. You could buy the three…