Oh look at the article author who has never driven a car on track. When your top-speed gear is also your overdrive gear your highway driving sucks. My 911SC is running 120mph at the end of Roebling Road Raceway’s straight, right near the top of 5th gear. It feels like the perfect fit on track, but you know what that…

Every time I see a high revving bike engine thrown into a car I know it’s going to be less exciting than expected. I seem to remember seeing a swap in a Civic SI using a ‘busa engine. Like... okay? It’s slower now?

I’ve moved a lot for work and have three cars and a motorcycle. The best start for me has always been searching craigslist for “2 car” and “two car”. “Garage” gets you too many irrelevant results, but when people talk about their garage they talk about how many cars, 1 car, 2 car, etc. At that point you still have to…

I lived in Arlington for a while and knew people familiar with the city council. It’s by design. They don’t want brown people...poor people the “wrong element” getting around town to where they live.

Sorry all, but this guy has always sounded like a straight prick. I’m glad he feels like he lost, because he deserved to lose. Could Nissan have handled it better? Yeah of course, but screw this guy.

Counterpoint (and shameless self aggrandizement): When old ass cars do it because 80s fuel injection.

I’ve heard that the driver might have had a medical condition on track, which would explain the lack of braking, horrible for the instructor too. Someone a few years ago died on Roebling from a medical condition and just rolled to a stop on the side of the track.

This was the correct answer all along, and what I expected from this post.

Boxster and Cayman, yes, 993 absolutely not. The 993 used the Mezger engine that had journal bearings for the IMS at both ends. It was the M96 engine in the non-turbo/GT 996 that introduced roller bearings for the rear of the IMS.

“The fire truck was situated in the left emergency lane, blocking the scene of a previous accident, the newspaper reported, when the Tesla-involved crash occurred.” 

The real crime of these cars is that they all drive poorly. If you’re not buying it for collector wankery and you actually want to drive it you’re left with something that doesn’t go, stop, turn, ride or do anything well...and all at the price of a new and much better car.

I go everywhere with only two front wheels. Why would you want any more front wheels? Wouldn’t you put the other two in the rear?

I’ve heard that you want them on the rear side of the rotor, and they only end up on the front due to interferences with other components. Suspension geometry mostly, not anything to do with effectiveness of the brakes.

Oh yeah me too, I don’t actually like the series but I buy every one that comes out because the dude can make some killer space battles. And I needs me my space battle fix.

The Harrington series is by David Weber, and the hyperspace missiles are just normal missiles that have FTL communications with each other and their home-ship for updated firing solutions.

For a few months I made turns onto two-lane roads into the near lane with opposing traffic doing the same into their near lane. Every so often it worked, but typically it ended up with them laying on the horn, flipping me off and possibly slamming on their brakes. Yes, I was always right and nothing bad ever happened,…

If you have the money for something like this why don’t you just go buy a proper race car? For that price you can probably get (or build from scratch) a group C or GT1 car. Want a great Nurburgring time? Just buy a Porsche 956.

It is, and I was able to move past faster cars (and get passed by econoboxes), but the thing I realized after four laps was that it just wasn’t worth pushing it anymore. On my last lap I hit an oil spill two corners before youtube hill. I got sideways but was able to catch it before the grass, but the motorcyclist a…

Look into these guys as well: http://www.rentracecar.de/en/

It doesn’t have anything to do with how good it is, I just don’t get the market for hugely expensive track-focused cars. If you’re going to buy a car just to go extremely fast on track you’d actually want something other than this. Someone else said that the windows in the door are there so you can see the lines…