Autocross. Please for the love of all that is good and right, autocross. I had a desire to go fast and stupid and sideways. I wish I’d been introduced to auto-x when I was young and impressionable. I’m lucky that my youth and rashness and stupidity didn’t smash anything or get me arrested. I wish I’d had a more… Read more
Sorry I missed the first round of this. Miata, night-time, backroads, January in NC. I was doing ~50 in a 45, everything was fine. Then I saw brakelights ...about 1/3 mi ahead. Which was weird, because this was the middle of nowhere and there was no good reason for people to stop. So I started to slow down ... er,… Read more
Holy hell, you did a great job with that.
I love the hood scoop in the testing shot. I love that there is some engineer somewhere in Maranello who (I really, really hope) said “a hood-a scoop-a? Notta problema!” and proceeded to get out his Sawzall and cut a hole in the hand-formed aluminum hood of this $200,000 sports car. Then, you know, to make it smooth,… Read more
“Motivated seller” + “Negotiable price” ... yeah, I think that’s not beyond the realm of possibility. Show up with a trailer for the car and all the bits & pieces and some strong-backed friends to load everything in and a pile of cash....
NP all day long. Yes, radiator zipties are REALLY worrisome. I mean, even if you ignore the whole “What else did they skimp on” thing ... and also the “maybe use something that is abrasion resistant and has a melting point well over 500F” thing....
You get the car with the engine and a crapton of extra parts. Building… Read more
Here we see the GTI in its native environment, establishing dominance by lifting a tire toward a corner.
And you know what’s happening on that ship shipping ship? Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
whoa.
I know everyone’s piling on how lowered this car is ... and yeah, I’m mostly with them, with one “huh” moment: I *DO NOT GET* the “huge wheel with a top above the car’s beltline” aesthetic. Like ... it doesn’t even look like a recognizable caricature of anything.
Then it hit me: It does kind of look like a barn-find… Read more