Does this mean it would qualify for a Jalopnik feature if I ever gotten around to owning an old Alfa in the land of Porsches, BMWs, Mercedes and Sauerkraut?

Reminds me of that Iranian Stealth Fighter; you know, the one with the badly photoshopped pictures of it supposedly flying released by the Iranian government.

One thing about the Porsche laptime to keep in mind is that the actual 6:57 lap (as everybody can see for themselves in the Youtube video, and as was later confirmed to me in an e-mail statement by a Porsche official who was present at the track during the record runs) was done according to Sport Auto magazine's…

I'd guess the intended application of the FF is more like "Darling, why do we need to take the Ferrari to our skiing trip in the alps? Wouldn't it make more sense to go with the Audi/Land Rover?" "No, honey, don't forget it's got AWD too! It's a perfectly sane choice to pick the FF!" *says with a straight face and…

Typical case of legal over-specification that does more damage than good, which I'm afraid is pretty typical of US law. A simple "mission statement" such as "a vehicle's operator is to make sure the vehicle doesn't roll off during his absence" would easily suffice to declare the responsibilities in case your…

Can anyone correct me if I'm wrong, from "ok boss, I'll see what I can do" to extracting the exact time of the video using undoubtedly present signals, to identifying his vehicle ("looks like he's in front row, second lane, big truck on the right side on the video"), and finally getting a decent pic of the driver and…

I guess you're doing something right when your engine's power is most conveniently expressed in MW. "Oh, in that state of tune and with the weather right now, it's pushing just a bit over one-and-a-half Megawatts."

Someone has to fill the stereotype of technologically pedantic German, guess it's me. "Flat 12 (FLAT 12!!!)" is a bit inaccurate/misleading in regards to the 512TR. It's a 180° V12, not a true "flat" engine as in "Porsche Flat 6" or "Subaru Flat 4", aka Boxer engines, the difference being in the crankshaft - a V…

Bloody c-word, doing that to a BMW/Audi driver might be ok, but to an MR2 Mk1-owner... that's just plain wrong. Friendliest bunch of car enthusiasts there is, IMO. Unless you say you prefer the Mk2 for it's handling ability, then they might get a bit mental and call you a rather uninformed person.

Well, haven't tried Scandi Flicks and the like, but for my ADHD-ridden ass it's fairly challenging to go in a straight line at a constant speed not-to-exceed for hours when the road is actually devoid of any traffic. Like driving through Belgium at night, where even the autobahn-equivalent roads are lit. I tend to get…

Actually, I suppose what hydrogen/fuel cell technology needs is a bit like the nitroglyzerine -> dynamite story: A binding medium that catches the gas in environmental conditions, taking away the worry of hydrogen explosions when refilling etc., while releasing it when it is used in the car. Nano-technology to the…

Technically, that is the case with every fuel medium; you never get the energy out that went into making it. And the idea behind hydrogen is not to harvest it somewhere, but to actually put electricity into a transportable shape that emits zero pollution when used. You know, just like batteries, just several times…

Just wondering - isn't the brake pedal on modern car, however intelligent-braking-by-an-ECU they are, still physically connected to the master cylinder? If so, you can give the signal to go full power, which seems to cause lots of idiots a lot of trouble even though their brakes can dissipate a lot more power than…

Essentially, they were homologation cars only, meaning that the manufacturers had to produce just 25 examples of them in order to say the racing version is based on a real, existing car. Since it's not too hard to find 25 wealthy collectors for such ultimate "racecars for the road" who don't actually want to drive…

Actually, not. Bit more trick than that I see now. Not just potentially driving the engine through KERS or however, but also helping the conventional turbine spool, to reduce lag at lower rpms. It's something of a tinkerer's wet dream, and would allow for quite some possibilities to optimize a given engine design,…

Actually quite simple. Take a normal turbocharged engine, add another turbine behind it into the exhaust that is driving the engine (either directly or via an electric generator/motor combination for more adaptable effects), to use the leftover energy in the exhaust gases behind the normal turbocharger (it's still…

I'm with davedave11111 on that. Obviously, if you need to cross the double lines to actually MAKE the turn, that's wrong, but to have a better look around a right-turn corner or to avoid a kink in the road with plenty to room to see, that's at the driver's discretion and actually makes for a safer ride and doesn't…

When do you stop encouraging your friend's crazy project car? If they can afford wasting the money on that project, you simply don't. If they are highly in debt and just impulse-buying a '70s Ferrari they can't possibly afford, you might point out the bad parts of that particular example they want to buy, and connect…

On #3: I'd say magneto-rheological, instead of magne-torheo-logical as the speaker does. Makes more sense from an etymological (etymo-logical) point of view.

It's a French word, which in most places outside of France passes as a joke in it's own right.