So did the driver or drivers who started one place ahead of where they should have been get a penalty? How can the race organisers open race action when one driver obviously didn’t put his car at a wrong spot at the starting grid?

The article says the car was rolled by a wave after the cop rescued them.

I did that on eurospeedway Lausitzring, not half as much fun as you think. And keep in mind that the Nürburgring has steep bits and nasty surface. You should still try though.

That thing would / could be worth 6000 if it's registered and brakes and suspension as tough as the body promises.

I really love the rear of this. The rest is ok, but i don’t really see the skoda in it. That said, I love every angle of the original car. My dad had the civil 4 door sedan version of this, my grand dad had the newer, updated 4 door and one of his friends even had the top of the line model with a Rev counter. I…

That's exactly the same layout the early smarts had, except manual upshoft was pushing forwards, downshifts backwards. It also would disengage the clutch until a certain, sometimes unspecified, amount of throttle was given before it starts driving. I thought it was rather ok, but far from perfect.

That's kinda what I thought for weeks now.

Actually 265kph would be dead accurate stock top speed. Maybe the seller mixed the units?

I like auto-autos!

Most of the morning rush hour here in Berlin happens roughly between 7 and 8. That’s when school kids, most students and office people and for unknown reason every single pensioner leaves home. If you put half of the car users in self driving pods, you'd still end up with an average trip of say 30 minutes, and then…

That either means one car/pod for everyone (who wants one). I don't see that happening.

It does change the amount of air the engine consumes, making a smaller engine comparable to bigger ones in power output. TwoFortified tried to make the point, that this six cylinder might just consume as much air as a 289ci engine. There making it a 289 if you squint and take a step back,

An E class or 5 series are considered big cars here. When my parents had a ‘98 Chrysler Grand Voyager, which was basically a style mix of all three of Chryslers minivans with a Chrysler badge, many people who saw the car or where taken for a ride went on and on about how it’s bigger then their appartment. Something…

I wonder how the new BBI airport in berlin isn't on the list. Scheduled to open 2 years ago, and they still try to figure out when and how to open the thing at all and who to blame for the mismanagement. And it seems like it'll be to small anyway once it opened. It's just as horrible as an airport as it can get.

I was totally baffled, when Brian spun out his Eclipse in the first part at 160 and after just stopping 2 car lengths away from that cliff driving away looking disappointed. I still don't get this scene.

I don't find any evidence of any other 320 then the CLK (or Crossfire) having a manual. But maybe it's different in the US.

I really fear that the whole thing will be shut down in not so far future. The investor company that bought the track broke contract for the music festival they planned, causing an event with tens of thousands of people who would have spend money from Thursday to Monday, plus sponsors and so on, to move elsewhere.

Still a great achievement. I think I've never seen a Hyundai Genesis in real life.

That's cool, but 32mph is a lot in this area.

The BMW de-limiting option only raised the limit for 305kph/~185mph. There are videos where an M6 does 320+ kph on the autobahn, if you trust the speedo at that point.