What you need is a sand rail.

Grew up in St. Louis and first heard about it when I went to college in Houston.

I saw that Stella M1 at BMW of Southhampton. We were driving by with my Aunt on the way to her place and I lost my shit and demanded we pull over. It is beautiful. Plaid seats, btw.

Power is all that matters. As long as you can change the gear ratio between the engine and the wheels, torque by itself means nothing. I can put 300 ft-lbs of torque on a 2-ft breaker bar, but I cannot accelerate a car at a competitive rate over any distance.  Well maybe like an inch.

And can you imagine being rear-ended by one of these things?

Also terrible for interior space.

Sound advice all-around. I will say that a light foot will get you better mileage in the vast majority of cases, especially with modern cars skewing heavily automatic and turbocharged, but there are conditions in which a normally-aspirated manual (or manually-shifted auto) will achieve better mileage with your foot…

Sound advice all-around. I will say that a light foot will get you better mileage in the vast majority of cases,…

Totally get it.  And as a native St. Louisan, I’m obligated to respond with defensiveness and insecurity.

Go figure that your memory of St. Louis Mexican food is something deep-fried. That’s kind of our thing. Take a cuisine and emphasize the parts that are deep-fried, filled with butter, smothered in cheese, etc. Or create those parts if necessary. Fun fact/name drop: I went to high school with the founder’s son.

Actually it kind of was an institution. I can still hear the commercials in my head. The founder was a Mexican immigrant.  He sold it to General Mills in 1979 and it kind of went to seed. He opened another restaurant, Ramon’s Jalapeño, that I hear was much better.

How did I get through the article and so far into the comments without coming across “The Gaping Lotus Experience”?  Am I... am I old?

So they created this trick floor, but the guys still have to push it?

Torch, do you have any info on early prototypes for the 924/928? It’s my understanding that there was a more-rounded and a sharper-edged version for each. They went with the rounded for the 928 and the squared-off version for the 924.  I would be really interested to see what the ones that didn’t make it looked…

I’ve had bugs and they’re fine. I’m rolling my eyes pretty hard at all the fetish in the prep, presentation, and description, though. Hugo’s in Houston serves chapuline tacos that are great—because they are thoughtfully prepared with high quality ingredients in a way that makes them taste good. All of the fussiness…

That’s the idea. My meaning is that I want to hear about how we can and should evolve to preserve our culture AND the environment. I’m open to discussing doubts about whether that is possible.  I think Jalopnik is a strange place for articles written from the position that cars are an evil to be eradicated, although…

I think politics is a great idea as long as it is about preserving/integrating/growing car culture in the modern world. I am not interested in hearing about how I am an asshole if I‘m not on a hunger strike to turn Manhattan into a walkable downtown area.

Oh man, that brings back memories. My parents ordered an 88 in Ice Blue with matching interior. Different colors but the shapes are so familiar to me. The Mitsu V6 was a great little work horse until it ovaled its cylinders a bit and started burning oil. I was super-excited about the family mini-van being bored-out,…

To me the tail hints at Datsun 510.

CVTs are infinitely variable, but they do not have an infinite range of ratios. Designers are going to spec and tune them to work in the normal operating ranges of scooters, which are not often asked to hit 60, so despite the CVT they still may not have the gearing to hit 60.

Sure, but again, you need more information to know why that horsepower correlates with that top speed. It is really unusual for vehicles to be geared to hit their theoretical (based on horsepower and aerodynamics) top speed. Many are governed for liability or tire limitations. There’s really no way to draw a…