To save the bottom end of the engine? The crank/rods/pistons will see the highest loads when you let off the throttle at high rpms, which is why you see a lot of engines break 'in the traps'. As soon as "safety clutches" were available for our racing transmissions in the early 90's, we had them installed. This is…

I don't know that demolish is the appropriate term, but that is certainly one fast 911. The rolling starts are a little hard to manage. It would be interesting to see which of them fared better from a standstill. I would be willing to bet the 911 has an even better advantage there.

I am going to assume you weren't alive at the time. These cars were terrible, but they only had to compete with equally terrible cars at the time.

Good one. So many hidden gems in those movies. I have to think that there are more than a few true car folk that made them.

Another fun video unobstructed by music. Then I get to the part where I recognize the tires I run in the street. Not common and very distinguishable:

LOL: "The Maybach is a high end luxury vehicle favored by rappers and drug dealers that can cost more than $400,000."

Multi-layer side glass or did the tint film just hold it together?

These kids must have grown up on Dave's farm.

Thanks for saying exactly what I was thinking.

I understand not wanting to bang the car up. I just have a really difficult time understanding how someone could spend 15 minutes trying to solve a runaway car problem only to arrive at the best solution being to jump out at 30-40 mph. Wrecked cars are what insurance is for, especially if you can prove that there…

From the article: "The McLaren MP4-12C was running 10.5-10.6 @ 133-134 MPH for these races and Ferrari 458 was running 11.1 – 11.3 @ 124-126 MPH."

I just love all of the media hype about how many times it accelerated. Sounds like to me that if it wasn't slowing down enough, it was accelerating :-)

Holy ill-prepared drivers, Batman! How many stories of inadequately trained teens do we need to endure every day? If you have enough time to call 911 and get emergency advice, you have enough time to try things like putting it in a lower gear (see, this solution is manual/auto trans agnostic), rubbing up against…

See, I told you that was the best story yet. Congrats.

This is the best one yet. In his mind, the thief was saving the car from your brother's bad ownership.

Funny, I read it correctly without the annotation. I concur...that is a good dream.

The creed that I pretty much live by when behind the wheel is "Am I driving in a way that requires anyone else to modify their behavior?". It's impossible to be a completely transparent vehicle to everyone on the road every moment, but it's not that hard to only affect the drivers on the fringe. There are a LOT of…

I like this logic. Back when the speed limits were much worse than they are right now, I was almost always in danger of losing my license in spite of constantly using the latest and greatest radar detector and a CB radio. Can't even count the number of tickets I got for driving 10 mph slower than the general flow of…

One of the primary reasons I own one. By the same logic, the 45º V-Twin sound is also distinctive enough that a trademark was once attempted.