That NYT article was awful. It's like they gave an intern who had never heard of car racing beyond sprint cup product tie ins an assignment to write an article on dirt track racing in order to get him out of the office. It was probably written based on information from the internet and a couple phone calls for a quote…

You can rent them from Hertz and see for yourself. I really liked the C6 that I rented, but a car that fast is just ridiculous on public roads.

Just finished the race...thanks for not ruining it in the headline. I was expecting to see Sutil and VDG crash out, and Sutil jumping out of his car with a champagne glass though.

You're right...I was thinking top 16, but recent FD coverage left me typing top 32. It was a bit more fun back then.

s/artful/pretentious. I couldn't make it past about halfway since it was nothing but random slow motion shots set to orchestral music...30s was enough, but I was holding out in hope something was going to happen.

FD 2005...back when the only requirement to get into the top 32 was not spinning out.

I rented a generic Fiesta from a random rental car place near the airport for a week when they first came out. It's still at the top of my rental car list. I liked it enough to consider buying an ST at the time. Somehow that car's suspension is the smoothest and most responsive that I've driven...it just glides over…

Perez's luck was bound to run out. There's no way Kimi was going to make it that easy for him. Just look at the number of times Perez screwed up the chicane and went straight.

Also you won't start tearing up during 4-6 whenever Han mentions Tokyo....I can't be the only one.

I'm pretty sure the first two tried to be take themselves seriously...the ones that Justin Lin did he pretty much realized why people watch them.

And yet, it has the most to do with actual racing. Hell, the plot is basically "Dude shows up and pisses off the best local street racer, so now he has to learn to drive and beat him in a race" instead of "some dudes are stealing/smuggling shit and some other dudes try to stop them"

Not guilty about it in the least. It's like a Snakes on a Plane that comes out on a regular schedule.

Same here. Saw like three modified cars, and the only one that was obviously tasteless was an F150, so it doesn't count for FnF premiere night. The other two were both civics...lowered, wheels, exhaust, etc, but neither were a train wreck. Nothing compared to the premieres of the first two movies which were a…

I agree with you (ignore the screen name...not biased). The way I remember them, Tokyo Drift is the only movie in the entire series that actually focuses on the cars. In the first movie they are there, but it's really a generic cops and robbers deal. I don't really see how anybody considers this the weakest movie.

I've been giving the barefoot/mid-foot strike thing a shot lately and my knees feel way better. You need to ease into it though since the muscles, etc that you use will be different and not as well developed.

Agree with the breathing bit. I read/head somewhere that not exhaling enough is why we feel out of breath, so I've started focusing on exhaling instead of trying to gulp in as much air as possible. This slowed down my breathing a bit and also resulted in being more metronomic. While running now, I just focus on…

r33s are better for tooling around on the highway and getting groceries. The R32 interior felt really dated to me 10 years ago, so I can't imagine how it would feel now.

Is it because I am now old, or have the 90s "awesome cars" really not diminished the same way that the "awesome cars" from the 80s, 70s, and 60s have?

I don't see where the Supras are overrated, and the prices they fetch on the used market mean that I am not the only one.

I rented a house with a friend of mine a few years back, and we both worked on our cars and both had a project car. I lost count of how many county code violation warnings we got from one of our neighbors calling them in, but for awhile it seemed like one per week. For the most part, we only worked on cars in the…