The EJ251 was the one notorious for head gaskets. The EJ257 had other issues, like the oil pickup tube fracturing, causing oil starvation. Also, as theshinobi01 said, piston ringlands can go bad on these on occasion. There is, of course, proven fixes for all of these issues.

Travis Pastrana isn't doing NASCAR anymore. Hasn't all year. He is actually quite busy at the moment, doing Rally America, Global Rallycross, Red Bull Straight Rhythm (a motocross variant) and he is making another Nitro Circus movie and maintaining his new YouTube channel on the side.

That dude has some talent.

At first I thought you were just posting $kaybait, but then I realized how close it actually is.

You win.

Also kind of an insult to rally...

Dat Subie tho.

Now he needs to make the Global Rallycross Beetle.

I'll just leave this here.

Well, to be fair, [HOONIGAN] isn't Ken's company, it's his friend's company - Brian Scotto's, to be precise. And companies make money when they sell products. If it were you running the company, I'm pretty sure you'd jump on the chance for your clothing brand to be sold in a nationally established store that caters to…

I'm actually fairly certain the Koenigsegg is less likely to get you into trouble than the Lamborghini.

How many of these are V6 Mustangs?

It's official. This must be purchased by an Opponaut and named Gunther.

If someone were interested in resurrecting a Bavraria, as some sort of winter project, this might be a good place to start. The car looks to be in excellent shape, with no apparent rust or other major bodywork issues. On the inside, the dash is cracked in places, and the seats are as dirty as Kate's Sister, but at…

It's looking really understeer-y.

Yeah, I was thinking "Okay, he's run out of gears and he's at redline...must be around 110 or so."

Perhaps, although I'd hop in a rally car today and have a go of it without any fear, and there isn't any way in hell I'd get in an F1 car.

Never in a million years.

The 2.3T (developed by Ford, no less) in my wife's Mazdaspeed 3 sounds great. Sounds to me like they just want people to not feel so bad about their muscle car sounding like a tuner.

The engine has higher compression ratios than cars that use "regular", and also derives its power through a more advanced ignition timing. The higher the octane rating, the more the engine can advance timing. Running lower octane gas in your Mini will lower both your power output and gas mileage, enough that it will…