On the side of Top Thrill they have a speed meter you can watch. Standing next to the launch area it looks very scary but the ride really isn't that bad at all. It's over pretty fast and the acceleration is only for a short period.

Green things like trees survive on CO2. These people are trying to be brown.

@korvetkeith king of teh horsepowers!: I don't smoke anything but tires.

Must Find Video of Lambo spinning 360 in the rain at turn 5 Road America.

Toxic Wealth?

@duurtlang: Agreed. I'been all over western Europe including you fine country. I've driven on the Zuiderzee and everything. Pretty place.

@duurtlang: Well the Autobahn is nice. The last I heard it cost about 150% more than a US highway per mile. The US has a ridiculous amount of more roads and I bet train tracks as well. I'm sure we have more cars per mile on top of that.

@korvetkeith So at 2:12 you can see the same 7 Series you see at 5:57 and I think that is the first BMW Bond car. After 5:57 you see him stick the camera in that one; you can see the missiles on the headliner. It’s hard to see in the video but there should be 2 dots on the front case of the rear view mirrors. Those…

Just preiced it out. 75 euro to ship and 19% VAT! So about $150 to the US. Someone please import.

This will make it easier to explain to my morning guests where all the jumps are. Trying to draw the Ring on a napkin is a bitch.

I've been there 3 times :) What would you like to know? There is a resident tour guy who speaks 5 languages. I can't see the video at work but the entrance has a paved road with a 80's F1 car. They have a pre war 328 that was recovered but never fixed up. It looks a bit battered. Some of the post war Dixis have…

That was one of the books I used for vehicle dynamics class. Tire modeling is weird.

@Nurburgringer: I probably should add with the track rented you are not dealing with the public so drive away. Less danger and more speed. Although I was driven into once at Galgenkopf and have passed many wrecks. I saw 2 accidents that involved a death too. When I've gone out with the public it can be pretty…

@Nurburgringer: It sounds like a lot, I guess it is, but when I go it is with a group that rents the track for 3 days. 2 of the days are 12 hour days with maybe a hour for lunch. So maybe 3+ hours a day of complete laps and the rest doing sections. You can parse it any way you want but it adds up. On a rental we…

@Nurburgringer: Yea, like the one above. The little wagon one looks way better too. I wish they brought that here instead of the 4-2.

@Nurburgringer: Funny. A buddy and me rented one of these to take to the Ring. When we got to it we couldn't fit our luggage in there so we had to get another car. Lexus IS200. Not to shabby for a rental.

@Madcows: Interesting. When you say knows little about cars what do you mean. I know engineers that know little about one thing but a lot about another. Say a airplane guy would still be pretty good at designing cars. There are such things as bad engineers. I will say we are on a different design cycle. For…

@zeeboid: The plane was probably used so that would be like recycling, right?

My first thought was they were flying a electric plane that had the batteries die.

@morphine500 - with added audi 5cyl: I currently have a R I switched to after having 3 M3's and can tell you I much prefer the interior to BMW's. BMW has got too complicated and I can't stand idrive. The interior ergonomics are second to none in Volvo's. My dash, seats, wheel, and center stack design are what keep…