...11 seconds closer?!

I can’t be the only one relieved not to find myself in there.

“These are a few of my favorite things.”

Sports cars can be rally cars.

In awe at the size of this lad. Absolute unit

Dodge Chungus Hellcat 

As a millennial, I desperately wanted to write something about this being a thicc heckin’ chonker, but I refrained. 

Back in 2005, I was a lot attendant at a Ford-Lincoln-Mercury dealership. 2005 was the peak of Ford’s bumblefuckery era where everything they sold was either an endlessly retrimmed variation on a 10-30 year-old platform, or a rejigged variation of a vehicle initially designed by either Volvo or Mazda.

Looks okay to me.

LOL. Yep. That somehow was not me. 

Standard Senna: YOU FOOL! THIS ISN’T EVEN MY FINAL FORM!

Not to mention, a SLANT NOSE 911. They don’t get enough love.

so basically this:

Tune-ups and carburetor calibration

A Jag will never strand you on a highway... they just won’t start in your driveway.

I know - Consumer Reports keeps downgrading Honda’s reliability across most of their models because of issues with the infotainment system. Nevermind that the cars can reliably drive for 100k miles with minimal issues. People from 30-40 years ago would kill for that.

I think it would be interesting to see people’s reactions if cars today had the reliability standards of thirty or forty years ago. Muffler replacement after 20k miles. Engine life of 100k. Tune-ups and carburetor calibration. We have come a long way, even for the least-reliable vehicles for sale today.

The first time I as at the Simeone, my kids were under 10. They started up the Grand Sport inside the museum, and the noise scared the crap out of both of them.  They both were startled back a few feet. 

The demo days when they take various cars out for a spin in the parking lot are great. Highly recommended. Plus the…

I’m not sure that damage is “superficial”. I think it’s a carbon fiber tub and if the tub sustained any damage as a result of the shunt, fixing it would be a complicated and expensive proposition, if it could be fixed at all.. And as pointed out, replacement parts for what we can see are almost unobtainable. Having…