When using Bluetooth with PC’s, another thing to think about to resolve stuttering issues is to ensure that you’re using the latest version of the manufacturer’s driver.

Meth. Not even once.

There’s a reason for that. This is basically the same car that Subaru ran at the Isle of Man with Mark Higgins behind the wheel. The delay is because the transmission isn’t a sequential or dual-clutch box, it’s an automated H-pattern box.

I would say that the 1996 USDM version is the worst of the Z32 series to buy. The first and foremost reason is that it’s the only Z32 model with OBD-II, so it has an ECU that’s incompatible with any other year of the Z32. Due to the new emissions regulations, Nissan didn’t have time to get the VG30DETT’s NVTCS…

Considering that GM has been refining the same basic design for the last 60 years or so, you’d expect it to be reliable by now.

I actually knew that the weird pipes were to help with noise regulations. I’ve seen this setup run at autocrosses before to direct sound away from the trackside decibel meter.

Back in the late 80's, a couple of friends and I were doing a little off roading in my friend’s 1964 baja bug down in Otay Mesa just north of the border (it’s all housing developments, shopping malls, a water park and an amphitheatre, now).

Freeway onramps would be a good place to use that extra power...but alas, every day I see some clod in a 300+ horsepower car trying to merge in at 45 mph. Put some boot in it once in a while!

That’s entirely possible. I’ve run Brotella in my WRX for quite a while, 135K on the factory engine and turbo (yep, still rockin’ the 13T) and the EJ is still running strong! No shaft play on the turbo, either.

When you’ve spent >$20K on a motorcycle that looks like it was designed in the 50's with equally questionable build quality, what’s another grand for bottle of gin that contains a part that probably fell off your new ride during manufacturing?

A few years back, I was in a similar situation to the guy in the story. I had recently started a job that was paying well enough to finally straighten out the mess I’d let my credit become. Plus, I needed a newer, reliable ride...the 1987 BMW I was driving was literally falling apart! I hadn’t had credit in so long…

But it was a convertible E30, so nothing of value was lost.

A rotary with a “powerful heating system...”, do tell!

If we’re gonna do hybrids, I don’t really understand why serial hybrids aren’t more prevalent? Just a straight electric drivetrain, so you lose the complexity of a CVT or torque converter based automatic transmission, coupled with an internal combustion engine just to keep the batteries charged up or to kick in during…

Considering the way this guy is driving a multi million dollar near race car on gravel roads and considering the event this is at, he probably is one of the best drivers in the world.

Just who appointed you Jalopnik safety nanny, anyway? I bet your real fun at parties.

Seems to me this is what capitalism is all about...buy low, sell high. This guy is a fine example of “Making America Great Again”.

Meaning it’ll run forever.

That big PWR cooler with the fans seems to be the intercooler, not the radiator. I suspect that the radiator sits underneath.

I believe I read elsewhere when this car ran the Isle of Man that they swapped the engine with an ex-Prodrive WRC EJ20.