Alfas aren’t charming when it takes you two years to get your car in suitable shape to drive to the fucking Taco Bell.

4.1 0-60 and carbon tub and 60k makes a lot of sense.

The most fun I’ve had in a car was in my school’s FSAE car with a sequential manual. I like a manual, but a sequential box, driven in manual mode, has its place too.

Nice topic. GTI is a good choice - I chose a Fiesta ST for myself because I like how it drives, it fits my stuff, and people on my street don’t really notice it.

Towing with the 1500 piece linked to this; missed it earlier, but nice and insightful.

And now I’ve read it. Spot on. I don’t have the engineering licensing to officially advise in this realm, but a year each in diesel fuel systems and turbo plumbing are experience enough for me to give the project two thumbs up.

Without reading a single word of this, I’ve laughed harder than I have at any other Jalopnik post.

Love my Verde

Here is a cat resting on a 2.3-16:

Doug is cool, but he just got Tavarish'd.

At least this way he'll have time to get his curry before the restaurant closes!..

This would be a good example, were it not for the fact that a 19mm socket is exactly the same as a 3/4" socket :P

Here's a Ferrari 456 parked across two spots, one of which happens to be a handicapped space. The thing is, this driver isn't an asshat, and there's one simple reason why: He's driving a Ferrari 456. This is a service to society.

This is a car that will run a quarter mile in 10.5 seconds and has a top speed of 207 mph. Set it right, and it's only civilized in the sense that "civilization" is also a thing that developed the hydrogen bomb.

Getting back in the car, it was like flying one of those old WWII planes that I think I once read were like this — pulse and glide. I slipped the clutch to get started, got it up to about 45 or so, cut the engine off so I wouldn't keep accellerating, and then coasted until I needed more speed, when I'd turn it on…

The Veyron wasn't exactly the most desirable car ever made, taking ten long years to sell 450 of them. The drivetrain, though, was an irrefutable masterpiece.

Were you on the Autoweek Combustion Chamber?

Self-explanatory:

Ah, got it. Does it look like they're using that here?

Danny McBride is also considering a derate.