More significantly, even Marquez was hardly within 0.5 seconds of Lorenzo’s time. Unless Lorenzo runs into tire management issues, some other rogue technical issue, or crashes, I feel like this race, and thus the championship, is totally his.

SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association)

Gd, I just cannot be made to care about these hopped-up derivative of a derivative ‘hypercar’ machines right now. This car isn’t sexy. It’s a well-heeled porn star wearing half-ripped clothing ...holes everywhere.

Admittedly, those are on the fray for ‘mass production vehicles’. And I’d still mod the hell out of all 3. :)

By the way, this [”Hey, Porsche, you know what would save more weight? No power steering at all. It seemed to have worked just fine for you in the ‘80s”] is great.

The best cars to drive are the ones enthusiasts make. Every attainable production vehicle has some form of compromise — be it either by a simple means of economics of mass producing a vehicle, or the limited technology available at the time.

Pridmore’s article is quite good. I am a Marquez fan, and I did find myself biting my lip a bit while reading his article, but the points he makes are hard to argue. So much of Marquez’s part in this whole thing was (for the most part) well veiled, so to the casual observer (me), it’s much easier to side in his favor.…

The personal vehicle auto industry regulators making a constant and very public effort to ‘green’ their product is in place because a greater portion of the developed world is jumping on the ‘green’ bandwagon: if sold the idea well enough, they’ll buy it — regardless of how effective said effort is. Just do it and…

Rossi’s post-race comment about “going wide to try and get a better line” is absolute bullshit. As even the commentators mentioned over and over again, Rossi was both waaay off-line and not even accelerating when he should have been to take the next corner.

This is an interesting theory Rossi is putting out there. I will put forward the following data point: mid-race when Marquez dropped suddenly from the lead and began fighting with Rossi and Iannone again, Marquez later chalked this up to overheating the front tire. That said, did anyone notice how quickly they had…

I have, but there’s definitely an added “something extra” when you multiply the displacement of the engines 7x and the riders get just as crazy. :)

“Let me start by saying that last night’s Australian MotoGP round was the best road race I’ve ever seen in my entire life.” — this. The first 3 laps especially were jawdropping, and the later pass Iannone made on Marquez and Rossi left me speechless. So. friggin. good. Cars simply cannot replicate the insanity of…

This is how you solve your it’s/it problem.

Hot rodders always got one nut loose.

I’ve wanted one of these since their humble EX35 days. Alas, no third pedal squashed that dream. I don’t care if the luxury compact utility vehicle segment isn’t having its doors broken down by enthusiasts hankering for simpler times, I want to stick shift all the things.

These could officially become the LARGEST A-PILLARS EVER.

Bicycle seats! Everywheeeeeeere!!@(#&*&^%!!~

Cute tramp stamp.

No no no. The “poor man’s” answer to the Cayman GT4 is not a posh fwd german econo-car with boost, Recaros, and likely artificial engine noise still being piped into the cabin. Nein!

That was a pivotal moment in Casey Stoner’s last year in MotoGP, 2012. That crash was at Indianapolis and put him out of title contention as the injuries he sustained had him miss the next few races. In other words, it was kinda a big deal.