that is my fault! I should have gotten the displacement right. however, 375 HP is 380-ish, rounding. I was intentionally being unexact with those because the point of the review was not stats, but the displacement is my mistake and I apologize for that. I cannot edit my own stories after the fact, but I would if I…

The 345/350 mistake is one I am admittedly ashamed of lolol, I should have caught that before sending this to publication. But thank you so much - as a kid that grew up on classic Top Gear and old Road and Track and Automobile stories, the ones that stood out the most to me were stories that barely were about cars -…

Aww thank you! Yeah I still try to pitch here as often as I can, I just hadn’t had much to offer recently until the trip started again. 

this is an extremely good point and honestly, as escapism, it works well, and it *is* genuinely accessible. Thank you for reading, I am sorry the conclusion didn’t work for you but I appreciate the thoughtful comment and constructive advice!

Hey! Welcome back Victoria! I’ve been reading about your journey on TheDrive and didn’t expect to see you back here.

+1. This was beautifully done.

wow!! thank you so much and thank you for reading! It is truly my pleasure!

This is the best article I’ve read on Jalopnik in a long time. Felt like I was reading a Car and Driver editorial. Thanks for the read, Victoria.

I will admit, I have always admired Patrick’s writing, and I love his story on the car. I do *understand* the appeal, but I also think that with just a 5.7, this thing doesn’t offer enough whatsoever, and even he, six years ago, admitted it was already outdated. Time has made it worse.

I have been shocked the ratio is as favorable as it is; I really wanted to tell this story and did my absolute best as I wrote it, but I also kinda figured it would be unpopular, haha. 

No, the van is fixed and I’m back on the road - updates are coming very soon, the repairs just took longer than expected! 

what happened to the trip out west and the van. i missed some updates i guess.

The beauty of reviewing cars that aren’t press ones is I don’t have to make anyone happy, lolol

The Testarossa used a FLAT-12, but as always we wont let facts get in the way of a slideshow.

(visualizes a Simpsons-style Yugo, at a starting line. The flag drops. The race starts. The car catches on fire, the driver bursts out of it and runs in circles.)

12 yards long, 2 lanes wide,
65 tons of American Pride!

All of them work towards a goal of allowing most of the 230,000 planes in the sky to fly, but do so running on fuel without lead. That solution has yet to be found.

I’m sorry, but why are we celebrating this? Dude takes a highly illegal NASCAR out on public roads with a damn passenger in it. Dangerous to everyone. For what?

Back when I was in AIT at Ft. Lee, VA, my room mate drove an Opel GT. Every Friday night, we would head out in that Opel up to Baltimore. At that time, I95 through Richmond had drive thru tolls (I think it was a quarter). The game was to toss the coin and then see if we could get through before the light changed. We…

VW should be like Mini and offer lots of custom colors, accents, etc.  Then they could call it the Up Yours!  Which is pretty much what VW is telling us when we can’t have the Up!, the Amarok, and the California van...