I got the damn point of the story. Good call on the semantics of that backwards sentence, it really drives your point home.

Congrats on missing my entire point.

Maybe he was trying to get the guy to stop due to an earlier incident he caused that wasn't caught on camera? I can't believe I'm the only one who considered this. Nobody "brake checks" someone on a damn motorcycle.

My buddy had the N/A version of this V8 in a Gran Prix back in the day, hands down the most gutless V8 I've ever witnessed.

Got the doors blown off of my reasonably quick 4.0L TJ Wrangler back in the day by one of these, never forgot the sound of that turbo as it walked away from me. My friend was like: "Dude, you just got rocked by a K car that sounds like a vacuum cleaner!" Total sleeper for sure.

Oh headers are extremely F'n molten lava hot, no matter the engine.

SOA

Every off-road bike has its exhaust configured like that, also the exhaust flow on 2-strokes tends to be much cooler by the time it gets back that far.

Totally pointless, but a total sleeper! Who would ever expect to get rocked by a lame-ass X-90 at the red light?

I rembemer one of my parents friends back in the day had a Caddy with a trunk that did this. Someone other than the owner went out to get something out of it, unaware of the "feature". She thought that yhe trunk wasn't shut, stuck her hand in to open it back up and give it another slam, but it torqued down on her…

I had a '97 F250 HD, Supercab, Shortbed & 4x4 with the Powerstroke, had 297,000 on it when I sold it last year.

Power output was 215 hp (160 kW) at 3000 rpm and 425 lb·ft (576 N·m) at 1600 rpm for 1994-95 if I recall correctly, with a slight bump in 96-97 due to injector changes.

Newer diesels, even 10 yr old ones like mine with EGR and catalyst being the only green features, smell like an indoor pool at normal running temp, it doesn't even resemble classic diesel exhaust smell unless the engine is cold. Smells faintly like humid, chlorine saturated air.

My '04 Jetta TDI did 0-60 in 10 sec stock with 100HP and 177 ft-lb @ 1,800 RPM. Chipped it to 130HP/247 ft-lb and it feels pretty damn quick when you stand on it in 5th. 65-90 in like 4 sec makes for passing people like they're standing still, all while averaging ~43 MPG.

Thanks to Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes.

Indiana $2,698

This particular rental was unlucky enough to make a trip to Kentucky Horse Park to go camping, it got some sweet air over one of the hills in the primitive camping area and also did several E-Brake 360's in the grass. This is a testament to the fact that most people drive rentals like they're stolen.

...and they're everywhere, I always wonder who the hell would test drive that car and actually buy it.

I second this, I had an Avenger "R/T" as a rental a few years ago and it was one of the most all around awful cars I've ever driven: gutless, handled like shit, noisy and just unrefined. There was absolutely nothing R/T about it. It actually made me happy to get my (at the time) 8 year old '04 Jetta TDI back.

I see a bunch of these around Cincinnati.