"a truly American team on a grand scale? The Ford GT program of the late 1960s?"

Someone should sell everything they own, blag an enormous loan and show that Lambo guy how to do it properly. Possibly breaking the coast to coast cannonball record in the process.

I bought a V12 Jaguar XJS to do a 2000 mile road trip across Europe. It did 40 miles after I picked it up before a total gearbox failure. Fixed it and 50 miles later it overheated and has a variety of serious engine problems.

You can see my kit car (very much lotus 7 style) parked on the street, outside my house, on google street view.

@Alex Roy: Good luck. I enjoyed your book and it's nice to see you do some real racing.

Fuck Dennis Leary. He stole his only funny stuff from Bill Hicks.

8 washers to shim the wastegate on my Mk3 Supra costing a few pence. 4 more psi, 40 more horsepower. You can never have too much boost...

Holy shit. Those kiwis don't mess around when it comes too hooning, do they? Is hooning a government sponsored sport over there or something?

I thought the elise was mostly carbon anyway? It does beg the question 'why did they paint any of them?' though.

Pfft. I was on holiday this summer and in the early hours of the morning, on the motorway near Monaco, we were cruising at 140mph in my big old Mercedes. Some guy in a Murcielago absolutely blew us away; he must have been doing 200mph+. We heard a howl, flash of headlights and he was GONE.

The man genuinely doesn't give a fuck, does he?

One day I WILL own a car that lifts its front end off the floor on a hard launch. It'll be street legal too.

A full 25% think that $5000 is reasonable for a Renault 5? No more time to waste here; I've got hire a shipping container and start phoning around scrap yards.

If any of you live anywhere near that Merc it is your duty to your fellow commenters to buy it and race it at LeMons.

@rocor:

I'd love it if that really was running 1000hp. It's a new sleeper concept.

It's so uninspiring. I'd like to think that if Ferrari were to release a modern motorbike it would look like it came from another planet and go like it was fired from a cannon.

No love for the Carmaggedon 2 Eagle?

I almost bought a 350i TVR wedge which is the version of that car with the Rover V8. Then someone told me that they leaked badly from the factory, major structural components tend to rust heavily and all of the wires in the wiring harness are the same colour. So a project car one that has been stationary for god knows…

Excellent. The madness has started. How long until 1000hp?