Old Halewood's aisles were narrow and crowded and visitors tripped over piles of carelessly stacked widgets and bits of rusty metal... In the old days managers used to hide in their offices poring over printouts and emerge on the shopfloor only to shout at workers to get them to do their job better and faster, or even…

Shoot — that's not hard. I learned to drive in a Model T, which is harder than the A. At least in the A you have a somewhat normal gearbox.

Marking has nothing to do with it. do you think the cyclist saw the car coming and thought "Gee, no VDOT markings, I think I'll hit it." No.

What are you talking about?

How do we know the SUV didn't?

Fact is that the SUV was a maintenance vehicle and had a right to be there. Furthermore there were WARNING signs stating that maintenance vehicles may be present. The cyclist had 4 seconds to react and did not, meaning either she hit the SUV intentionally, or she wasn't paying attention.

Oops — perhaps the cyclist should have read the warning signs...

The OLD news is that he's out of the coma. If you'd bothered to read Dr. Harstein.s blog, you would have known that the same news was reported in April.

I did. 50k is too goddamm much for a Mustang!

The good news is that it's gained a lot less weight than we thought it would based on the claims made by tuner Steeda, who may or may not have actually weighed the car — less than 100 pounds across the board.

Does anyone know what language this is? Google Translate can't make sense of it.

Ugly? Nah — those are fuel trucks pre-positioned to keep the thirsty R8 happy.

Until the next feature there.

An instructor has NO business doing that. If I'm driving with a student, I don't get anywhere near the car's limits — I go perhaps 70% of the way there, but the student doesn't know that — it feels to them like I'm driving 110% and that's just fine.

I've only had to give The Talk in earnest once. I had a student in a C6 Z06 that had been supercharged, and stroked. According to the owner the car had over 750HP, and after riding in it, I believed him. The acceleration was brutal. Only the guy was on street tires, with factory brakes, unknown brake pads…

Guys, I'm seegin a LOT of things to hit and not a lot of barriers — armco or otherwise. I'm not too sure I'd be OK with instructing on this track.

Physics is a heartless bitch with an excellent sense of humor.

Before everyone gets into a kerfuffle over those wheel-stands, remember thsi is a TV SHOW. Nothing you see is real (probably). I'll bet you a beer Wood wasn't at the wheel during those passes.

Oh, and am I the only one disappointed that the red Camaro wasn't Big Red?

OK I'll ask it. When can we expect a lighter Mustang?

(I'll let myself out...)