I own the convertible version (Puma GTC). Forget turbos and Subaru swaps. Just bump up the displacement. Aircooled VWs have all sorts of mods available. And when you consider that the car only weighs about 1500lbs, 120-160hp in this thing would make it one heck of a fun ride while still keeping it true to the original.…

I have had blistering acceleration. It cost me $3,000. Honda Blackbird. You can substitute Hayabusa, Bandit, or the literbike of your choice in its place. Paying an order of magnitude more for a car that accelerates as well as a $3000 motorcycle is for people with more money than balls. So if you aren’t a chickenshit,…

Hello. I would like to be the 1,874th person today to make a joke about muffler bearings or blinker fluid. It appears there are only enough hilarious and super-creative and ultra-original people around to make 1,873 totally original comments that a group of car enthusiasts had definitely never heard a thousand times…

Hang way back. Hit the gas. Be doing 10mph+ over said fuckwit before you signal and pull out to pass. You don’t need power-to-weight on your side. You just need momentum and the element of surprise (which isn’t hard when dealing with most brain dead cagers).

I want them to sound like an ice cream truck.

I’ll throw out one very basic but important legal tidbit- contracts are construed against the drafter, *especially* in cases where the drafter is a multi-national corporation and the other person is a chick or a dude just buying a car with no special bargaining power. Subaru’s highly-paid lawyers knew EXACTLY what the…

Except that it’s not semantics. It’s words with actual meanings. We arent in a post-truth world quite yet. At least not where contracts are concerned. Racing requires competition. Timed events require a timer. Driving circles on a track doesnt suggest either of those things. Especially in a case where the event…

They did/do offer it in beige. And man is it ugly! However, after looking at one for awhile, it could look pretty cool with some stripes or something.

Is the reverse also true? Is a $50 fine on a millionaire an insufficient deterrant? I mean would you support a five-cent penalty for all traffic violations? Or is receiving one actually supposed to sting a little?

Cool. I’ll be the dude doing 3mph under the limit in front of you when everyone else is 10mph+ or more. Just remember to wave and be friendly to me when you are being held up on the way to work. I’m just following your own advice.

Spiritually? I’m really glad your God could support your kids spiritually. It must make you feel all warm and fuzzy to be such a devout Catholic that your God can support you and your family spiriritually. It must make you feel so warm and fuzzy inside to know that He justifies your world view exactly how it already…

Cool. I can agree with you. Sounds like you’d support a six-figure fine for a relatively minor traffic offense because that would sting as much for a millionaire as a $50 fine would for a poor person. I mean, if $50 is chicken feed for you, it has no financial sting and lacks the appropriate societal incentive to…

True. Part of the functionality of the 747 is that it is a flying White House. I can’t imagine even a single scenario where the President’s physical body’s presence at a specific location would ever be more important than his ability to conduct business, or sleep, or eat, or conduct talks while en route.

So if the President climbed aboard my Cessna, I guess I could then use the identifier Civilian One.

Well, sure. You can learn something from considering the aerodynamics on smaller bodies... as long as you take Reynolds numbers into account when scaling it up. Sure, a Gurney flap will be even better at higher R numbers. But a large wing will be massively better! In sum, I think your armchair solution would be…

Stop giving away my secrets, Tom! Actually, I’ve had a ton of success lately flipping people from a 1-2 year old low-mileage used cars to brand new. I get the buyer a new car, with the exact features they want due to larger inventory, and the cost difference has been less than a grand. It’s a nice ace-in-the-hole when…

I have a lot of them, but the shortest one went like this... flying down a tollway, dealing with weekend drivers who don’t know where they are going, or even how to drive on the highway. I sped up from 65 to 85, trying to pass an idiot who kept speeding up and slowing down alongside me. That was going to be my excuse.…

Better yet, let the floater race go to the home country of whatever team won the series the previous year.

I agree. Or go back to when every Indycar could be a road car (due to no regulations on what a road car was). Again, every Indycar is a roadcar. Modified, of course. Let the Veyrons duke it out with the McLarens and the Ferraris, etc. Just limit the fuel allowed as a rough way of keeping speeds in check and promoting…

While, gosh-golly, it sure feels goos to take strangers down a peg? Why not look at the slrare signs of a truly great driver? No, I’m not talking about someone’s time around a track, but the subtle things you occasionally see on your daily commute that make you think, “man, that driver knows what’s up!” I admit it’s…