This would be my guess. Ferrari often uses existing models to build a test mule. Check out this photo of a 348 being used to test parts for the Enzo. Weird, huh? My guess is this is a 458 that’s been modified to test 488 components.

It wasn’t a bad car, or even a bad Porsche. Good God, they were fast and handled well and were extremely good for their time. It just unfortunately bears the title of “first water-cooled 911”. People will always remember the 993 as the last of the air-cooled, and thus, the most refined example. The 911 got a lot…

C5 Corvette but C6 wheels.

I’ve been privileged to have a couple of semi-exotics (most recently an Aston Martin Vantage).

Maybe that’s a bad pass (failure to grab the wire) followed by a good landing?

About once a year, Cadillac comes out with their V-series cars and puts on a day where prospective customers can drive a few laps. If you can get in, that’s your best chance to drive a few laps cheaply.

Misses Big Bend National Park. Fail.

This isn’t the Ferrari logo. The real Ferrari logo has a square dot over the i that matches the square line of the F. On the back trunk lid, the two are even connected. Here’s an example of the square dot on a Ferrari hood.

The real reason they’re like that is the door glass actually curves up into the roof. If the whole thing was one piece, you couldn’t roll down the windows. Same thing with the Lamborghini Countach, except there it’s the curved door that prohibits the whole thing from rolling down.

I still think the Stinger eventually became the Aztek. They have the same philosophy, it’s just in the Aztek, it’s been filtered through a dozen focus groups and crippled by the bean counters. I can see what they wanted to build — something like a more versatile Jeep Wrangler — but we ended up on the wrong side of an…

The Solstice GXP Coupe is worth more now than new ($30,995 MSRP) if you can find one. The only one I could find that’s sold recently.

Seems like the best “solar” car would be a Tesla and a full bank of solar cells on the roof of your house.

It’s just $$$$. I recently instructed an event where we let completely novice drivers drive a slightly detuned F1 car from the V10 era. I think the whole experience cost $10k for just a few laps. I cannot tell you the relief I had that the F1 car only had one seat. I can only think of one driver all day that was…

I instruct on the track about 10 times a year. I can say that it is extremely challenging. The track is deliberately designed to trick you, some corners look completely different than they actually are, there are false apexes in several places, and the line is not intuitive. In some places, you don't need to…

I have. I’m an average sized guy, I fit in everything. The first thing I did getting into the ZDK was bang my head on the overhang of the door opening. Hard. It took real, concentrated effort to get in and duck my head low enough to clear. How that passed any kind of design committee, I’ll never know.

Cars don't like to sit. If you don't use them, they sit and rot and you'll spend a bunch just getting them back to the point where you can drive them again.

Whatever GM paid for the use of that song, it was not enough.

Him?

Everyone remembers Honda's 4WS system and for good reason, as it was a really well engineered solution.

This is what I keep thinking when I hear about their response: