... and, of course, the discipline to keep those hands planted on the two controls you can guarantee will have no use in the air whatsoever.

I was on the team that did the restoration on that very car, 5R002!! It was serial number 2, but actually the very first Shelby Mustang ever made, one of three prototypes. This car can be seen in many of the early photographs of the Shelby American facility at LAX. We finished it up back in May and it has been on…

It's funny how something can be so impressively fast, while at the same time being so unimpressive.

I can't believe a golf cart is anywhere close to aerodynamically stable at 118mph. Madness.

90% stock scares me because certain things like wheel bearings, brakes, suspension, steering, etc. were not built to handle such extremes. If this was a longer distance run (say for top speed and not just a quarter mile) I am 90% positive it would end in a crash.

Safety Level:

At first I thought this was "Go-Kart" and was rather surprised that no one had managed to make a <12 go-kart before. Then I saw that it was a Golf Cart, which changed everything.

I was hoping this was going to be a story of a single-digit miles Miata hiding in a garage, but it turned out to be better.

Not only can my wife drive stick, she drives a faster car than me.

I've always appreciated the quirkiness of Mazda. They are underrated.

Interesting that you brought up halo cars (there was an article about the LFA, and halo cars in general yesterday). I like that you think the Miata is a halo car...I also believe that a halo car can be any "cool", high-performance model that gets customers excited about the brand. It doesn't have to be exotic or…

Maybe he didn't want to push the issue because he liked driving the car so much.

In 24 years she couldn't learn how to operate a ridiculously light clutch? Sy, what are you still doing with such a loser?

This story would be so much better if she'd actually learned how to drive a manual...

Sounds like bad instruction to me. You dont teach someone in traffic. Take them to a large empty parking lot, getting used to where the clutch engages is the most important part.

Because Mia Hamm and Bruce Lee.

Mazda's PR team is really underrated. They make all sorts of unique gestures to the public by building off of these kind of humble stories, putting modest people in the spotlight and turning fans into brand loyalists.

Yeah, that seems ridiculous. There's a lot of people who are inherently afraid of a clutch pedal. As if a clutch once killed their ancestors.

Mazda is a Cool Company.

I feel like all of these suggestions add money, which makes Step 3 difficult, which will ultimately lead to the end of CEO Superfast Matt.