First it’s important to understand that the Whyte Bikes v. Rich Energy case is taking place in the UK, which has an entirely different court system than the US.

Counterpoint: I like being able to check Jalopnik on a Saturday morning and getting links to good automotive articles.

No hair, no care.

That’s not entirely accurate. Petrol powered cars have a long history of catching fire in garages. The irony here is that the ignition source is usually electrical in nature. The 12V battery in your car has plenty of amperage to start a fire.

Works in tech, wants a fast car, occasional track use, values high tech. Dollars-to-donuts, this guy ends up in an R35 GT-R. Something about that car just calls out to tech nerds.

This is the kind of thing that absolutely nobody cares about... Except people with $50 million to drop on a car that will sit in an air conditioned garage for the rest of its life.

Hold up.

In a pure capitalist society, there would be no regulations governing automobile safety at all. It would be left entirely to the market to figure out what the best solution is: safe and expensive or cheap and dangerous. So we can dismiss your ridiculous premise out-of-hand, because Federal law mandates all kinds of…

When conducting business with a car dealer, remember that one of the central tenants of car sales is: “Create a sense of urgency.” Seriously, it’s in virtually all high pressure sales material. And don’t buy the “we’re a low/no pressure dealership”. That’s just code for, “We’ve implemented enough layers of indirection…

I start by ignoring any scheme involving taxation or any attempt to make SUVs more expensive. They’re already more expensive, and people buy them anyway.

I totally agree with you on the aesthetics. My ass, however, has initiated unilateral veto power due to the effect of Florida sun on my seats.

And many, many underpants were soiled that night.

No coincidence, you’re not the first person to put their finger on the 5-second 0-60 mark as the cross over point from “this is fun” to “I’m probably going to end up in jail”. Not saying really quick cars aren’t fun, of course, but the extent to which you can enjoy them is bounded by your tolerance for jail time.

And then one day you wake up and realize that there is a lot more to a car than horsepower figures. I can guarantee you that if you spent 20 minutes behind the wheel of this F430, you’d never compare it to a mid-tier pony car again. That’s not to say that today’s pony cars aren’t incredible — they are — they’re just…

That’s an oversimplification of the problem, and it’s also partly untrue.

Auberlen went over in a open-top LMP900 class BMW V12 LMR at Road Atlanta in 2000. Luckily he landed tires-down.

Pfffft, get off my lawn.

At the end of the day, low level jerbs are being replaced with more specialized ones.

Keating is one of the best Am drivers the sport has ever seen, but I cannot believe Bergmeister wasn’t able to catch him at the end. Really goes to show how well Keating’s GT program was run.

Sure, but how do you go from racing incident to Fassler’s mistake?