Gran Turismo: best-selling PS1 game (10.85 million copies)

But you WERE hooligans. You were 17, you drove an hour for an amusement, at their expense. You weren’t renting anything. You weren’t buying anything. You wanted to play around with an expensive, rare car.

OK, buy a Corvette, pull the fuse for the ABS and traction control, cut the belt for the A/C compressor, throw away the targa top and replace it with coat hangers and a rain coat, roll down the power windows and pull the fuse, then you can have the true pure 1st generation Viper roadster experience for half the price.

And a petty one too. These weren’t exactly “cheap” cars back then. It was likely the most expensive thing on the lot, and he’s pissed because they wouldn’t let him mess with it with zero intention to purchase it.

I hate the peak # argument altogether. Think hp and torque # should be compared using Reimann Sum to measure area under the curve to get an idea of how much power is actually being produced throughout the whole power band. This would kill the honda S2000 argument of it produces 240hp only using 2.0 liters blah, blah,…

Only 85 more hp and only 500 pounds lighter...

Since when is 85 more hp “only”? That’s nearly a 30% increase.

The yellow reminded me of this:

Dude, elsewhere in the business world competitive bids are sent, deals are negotiated, and contracts are signed for many many millions of dollars all via email. Why should buying a car be any different.

He was a Product Czar who has stated many times not even he had power over the bean counters. Give Car Guys vs Bean Counters a read, details his whole fiasco at GM.

Actually Tom, you hit the nail on the head with the manual transmission post - I will not buy an automatic car - so when I see manual, but an automatic shifter in the photos, I move on.

The biggest disappointment?

Do you really have to ask?

I’ll take mine with a manual....oh wait.

Actually there is a solution if he “wants to get into a truck”. Sell car privately for far more than the $16,300 trade in, pay off as much of loan as possible, search craigslist for- body type: pickup, price: <$4000. Suck it up and pay into remaining loan balance every month until it is paid off. Drive cheap pickup…

Well, the financial education is out there, but it doesn’t mean people are using it. When Wikipedia first came out, I was convinced it would make us all the most informed and interesting people the world had ever seen. Instead we blow all of our time on facebook and porn, apparently. And chatting with strangers about…

Shame on you for mentioning that. There goes more of my money.

Love the design of the latest Mustang.

Homicide only means human responsibility, not specifically criminal. It was determined to be an accident, one that certainly didn’t have to happen, but doesn’t quite reach criminality. Could still argue criminal negligence, but second degree murder was a real stretch, and can certainly argue moral responsibility in a…