True. If it's not a "true dual" don't bother.

It will be interesting to see how the aftermarket supports these little motors. One of the biggest detractors of the Mini Cooper was, in my mind, was the absence of broad aftermarket support. Conversely, the Neon had tremendous support and was a great platform for making gobs of power.

I'm having a hard time not making a crass joke about how I treat my car.

Greatness. My mom and uncles grew up across the street from him and his brother, Jimmy. Funny thing was I didn't really get into his music until I witnessed his death and the impact it had on my family; until then he was just a b list musician so I was not impressed with the association (yeah, punk ass kid). I started…

I'll buy the less stress on internals argument... I guess... but I don't buy the reliability argument. Mostly because it can't be proven as there isn't enough long term reliability data on the Veyron engine to have an informed opinion. It certainly does not get thrashed in the real world like the SBC does. It is…

If you are going to sell a 1000hp supercar for $1.5 million+ you might need to have something that differentiates it from everything else... because that's the kind of exclusivity and image that Veyron buyers are attracted to. It IS completely unnecessary though, you are 100% right about that.

It was in the 70s and sunny yesterday in North Texas. Perfect convertible weather if you ask me.

True, Ford's claim. And this is SRTs claim.

Great read Mike. Excellent.

I totally agree that there should be more grandiose projects that capture the imagination. But we aren't completely without hope. We have companies like SpaceX doing some cool stuff. We've got a "space mining" startup of sorts (although there's no guarantee anything will come of it). There's the continuing work at…

Rock me!

Wow. That's great power for a '93 motor. Especially considering the location of the cam shaft.

Which 5 liter was that? Ford's?

It's hard to be married to a human when you are married to your career. Not a judgement at all... it's a choice she made, not a wrong or right one in my mind. Of course, some folks are cut out for that kind of uh... agreement, if you will, I just don't seeing it having a high success factor.

I'm thankful for this because 662 HP. Seriously though, it's a high water mark that may never be reached again by a factory Ford after the Mustang refresh and I'm thankful that I have the option to buy one if i'm feeling like halting my retirement and kid's college fund contributions.

I agree with that. In the original post I said "Perhaps the creation of a Jewish state was short sighted in the sense that no one could predict the strief it would cause. ".

OK. You're the one that brought up American soldiers, again, I'm not sure what that has to do with Israel.

Defending your right to be any religion, or none at all, is a founding principle of this country. That's not exactly a jihad tard.

You know, it's really hard to conceive the type of society that would evolve in circumstances such that Israel has endured over the last 60 years. I'd almost not blame them if they'd invaded every country on their border just to preempt hostilities. But they didn't. There's a land dispute, I get that, neither side is…

So you think Israelis should be "murdered off" because you are tired of wars and Americans dying? Surely that's not your point but, if it isn't, then WTF is?