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Not a chance right now, but once upon a time aluminum, too, was considered too expensive to use in mainstream automobiles. As the forming process gets refined and the economies of scale come on board, we're going to see a lot more CF in mainstream cars.

What's with the Thursday parties, holmes? Between missing this and Buxton's bash, I'm feeling pretty left out because I have, well, a job.

The Ringbrothers: proving fabrication skills can't buy taste since whenever they started making cars, and making a pretty good argument that the two are inversely related.

DAT VENTURI, THO.

I believe Frams are OEM for many a vintage Ferrari, if I'm not mistaken.

Hat tip for me, yay!

V12 Vantage, for me. There are other racecars in the world, good as the V8 GT4 may be, but there are few other road cars that look as good, sound as good, and are as classy as a V12 Vantage. It's the ultimate daily in my book.

Nailed it.

About the same, actually. To date, Mercedes has sold ~2700 SLS AMGs in North America, and Ford sold 4038 GTs; I imagine that with the remaining sales + total global sales that the numbers are pretty similar.

Oh dear, please do expand upon that stunningly intelligent bit of drivel.

(Full Disclosure: If it wasn't obvious, Forza advertises on Jalopnik and this party is being thrown by Gawker's advertising department. Other than sharing this post with you there's no editorial involvement. That being said, I wish I was in San Francisco so I could go.)

Here's my 5 minute workup from MS Paint.

It is. They're all from the horse racing industry and they don't know their heads from their asses when it comes to an automotive racetrack.

I am not usually one to pile onto Circuit of the Americas' management for minor issues that arise with their events. COTA is a spectacular facility, an incredible place to watch racing and a fabulous new playground that's in my backyard. I can overlook small missteps as growing pains for a new facility (for now, at

Ugly isn't better than boring. Good, even if plain, design will always trump styling for styling's sake.

Hey, I make no judgments against Canadians for that, merely that it's interesting that we got the same response from three different people. Clearly not an isolated opinion, lol

You Canadians really have quite the negative perception of Quebec, don't you?!