Correction, $42,000 is a lot for a 20 year-old Japanese car... it would be different if it was a 20 year-old exotic. The sweet spot for used Japanese sports cars is under 20,000 IMO... Which will buy you a damn fine RX-7.

In another 5 years you'll be able to import JDM 80-series (the proper nomenclature) Supras for 1/4 to 1/2 the cost, so unless you have a huge hardon for the Supra and can't drive an RHD car, buy something else (NSX, 348, RX-7, Elise, Caterham...) or wait a few years.

We have enough nukes that the failure rate of orbital kill vehicles will leave enough to still kill us all.

With Chilton Sr.'s money? I don't think so.

Whoa, he actually fits in an Evo 1 seat. Actually, I wonder if they installed that seat so he could actually fit in the car. Hehe. http://www.goo-net.com/usedcar/spread… Nooooooo, 348s cost $40K here in Japan... sigh...

As an MR2 turbo owner I will be the first to say that unless the company is willing to spend the money to make the car properly balanced (40:60 is not a proper balance for a road car) and handle properly (meaning, no cheapass Macpherson struts!!!), a cheap midship car is not worth the hassles.

Watch that thing dance as it takes off...

The decibel scale is logarithmic, so the 40 decibel drop a silencer (yes, silencer is still a legitimate term...) provides means the gun is several times quieter.

Absolutely. Any Porsche that old is going to take a ton of modification just to make it track worthy. Its design is ancient and most of the technologies it uses have long been abandoned. Namely, torsion bars and air cooling. Buy a Spec Miata, RX-7, or an older Corvette if you want a reasonably priced track car. Hell,…

Anything is possible when you've got an unlimited budget...

Somehow I can't imagine how flaccid length is medically relevant.

The idea of a "homogulation special" that can go between real race car and street car is awesome. But the logistics of Le Mans-level racing basically demand that a race car stays a race car and is brought to the track on a truck.

Not really. It still provides high-paying jobs to hundreds of people, and a powerful marketing tool to your sponsors. As long are spending OPM and not out of your own pockets, competing at the peak of motorsports is still a pretty damn good way to make a living. Either way, someone is always going to be in last place…

He's not bankrupting himself, all the money his using was gathered from supporters (basically a kickstarter) and his own sponsors. Unless you're talking about the team itself.

He's partially correct. We will have another big war...but only one.

I have driven Motegi and it is very stop and go. Plus the braking zones are all downhill.

If you're talking about the Type R, sure. It's the greatest. But definitely not the fastest. The NSX Type R is a finely-forged masterpiece of a samurai sword, whereas the EVO is an assault rifle, and the GT-R is a nuclear bazooka. So long as you assume all the cars are modded. Bone stock, I would go with the NSX…

Wouldn't just leaning the engine out on steady-state throttle (and cutting fuel on off-throttle) do the same thing? I would imagine that cylinder deactivation would *hurt* longevity on a high-revving race engine due to throwing the balance off, sooner than it would help.

Correction, its possible to do without using computing power with hundreds of hours of practice. You would need some way of controlling the thrust precisely in order to do this over the ground (or at any significant altitude) without killing yourself, though... I think about the best we could hope for is maybe…

This is why scientists start at minimum power and increase slowly instead of immediately cranking it up. Then again, this might also be why Tony Star was able to build an invincible power armor in a matter of weeks/months.