I’m excited to see this project done. Pick someone fun. And if they go the lemons route, put puffalumps and jalopnik stickers EVERYWHERE. it’ll be unbeatable.

Ah I couldn’t watch the video, I was out with a friend for breakfast, but anything more than 1% of total horsepower gained would be suspicious. Obviously depends on the engine, but I would put the gains at 1 to 1.5 percent tops. Probably slighty more than an electric fan gains.

Less parasitic loss. He’s not wrong.

Sort of off topic, but lingenfelters book on 350 tuning explained so much about engine performance when I was a youngster. Made me one hell of a jackass know it all in strip mall parking lots and car forums for years.

Wait that’s even sketchier than I first thought. Almost guaranteed to be a fake, but in Europe you will see m-sport packages pretty frequently with just the M badge (and the parallel 10 spokes from the m-sport package) on the 5 series.

Nah sell them to the kid down the street with the stock, rusted out ‘98 outback wagon.

It was similar to the M-Sport versions of the e39 and 135's. They’re riding on performance suspension, have a few blingy parts in the interior and some different bolt on body parts, but engine performance wise, they’re the “model number” car, not the m-spec car.

You can’t let people know you’re rocking that short shift kit when you’re goading them into a race!

“Of course I’ve got the only fully automatic e46 m3 wagon in existance. Why do you ask?"

Maybe all the badges got scraped off by the bushes, rocks, barbed wire and sheep that congregate alongside country lanes during their obligatory visit to ireland.

“You can borrow that Huracan too by the way, for about $3,500 a weekend.”

Well those engines leak fluids like a gentleman with a bad prostate, and has a timing belt that requires the front of the car to be removed to replace.

I have an idea.

It’s one of the first cars I rode in where the suspension wasn’t noticeably independent on each axle, but instead completely disconnected from front to rear. The front right would dive when going left, then a second or two later, the rear would realize it got left behind and sort of snap back into a generally correct…

Oh god. Buying peugeot’s that “ran when parked”, sight unseen, just gave me a crippling panic attack.

Why not hope that law enforcement gets involved (finally).

I don’t like Chris evans, never have, but even considering that absurd statement as fact is just silly.

With stigine Schmitz doing the lap times in the cars they bring on. Or better yet, have her lap every one on the nurburgring

You should watch the review of the vantage v8 Clarkson did back in the day. It was a ridiculously bad car, that only had one design element that made it a Clarkson car, 600hp. If it had 225 he’d have absolutely fucking hated it. They were never true journalists on that show, but keep wearing your make top gear great…

He was spectacularly awkward in his bit with James may back in the old top gear days. Pretty sure it’s just him. It probably doesn’t help that his guests worry he’s gonna whip out little Chris Evans for a laugh if things get a bit dull.