Please god let someone enter a 928. Getting a sub $1000 one running at all would be a challenge. A 24 hour endurance race? You'd have to be some kind of god. You'd also have the added bonus that the judges would undoubtedly see your hard graft Porsche as an audacious cheat.

@Murilee Martin: Please let this happen. I have a Mercedes 500 SEL that I bought for £250 that's crying out to be stripped and go racing. It's 17 feet of German magnificence.

It's too new as formula one cars go. You need a team of dudes with laptops to even fire it up. Slightly more old school (80's/early 90's) F1 cars are much more in demand. With one of those you can just rock up with it on a trailer at a trackday and kick everyones ass.

For $2000 a year I'll take an APC. Where do I sign?

I love Vipers but that isn't the production car record.

Ford Probe is the worst non-language confusion one. Someone picked that deliberately; too much coke in the boardroom that day.

I must have a flawed character. First thing that occurred to me when I read this article is that there's going to be a DB7 in good condition going very cheap. I'd buy it - bit of washing, maybe a new seat, good as new.

61 MPH and 29mpg? That's rubbish. On a recent trip across Europe myself and two friends averaged 85mph from bolougne in France to Spiez in Switzerland (~600 miles). We also averaged 22 mpg. What was our ecomobile? A 1986, 5 liter, 500 SEL Mercedes.

It might not be shit. That's about the most optimistic thing i can say about it.

Bohoo, $6 a gallon. We're at around $9 a gallon and climbing over here.

Pfft. Hafnium reactors are science fiction. Nobody has been able to replicate the Carl Collins experimental results.

The nucleon wins it for me. I'm a bona fide nuclear physicist (really, I am). You really could build a reactor that small; I designed one in MCNP after I first saw a picture of it to settle an argument with a friend.

I'm a biased towards a XR4Ti because I used to own a UK version with a turbo technics modified V6. It was great.

It's a real story; it's been widely reported on the BBC etc. Besides, how brave do you need to be to slander an MI5 agent?

I always thought that a real life deliverators car from snow crash would be awesome. Jet black, sleek and low complete with the orange strobe lights and heated pizza racks.

American eBay is so much better than the UK one.

I'm with Buzz; any mechanism as long as we get a countach...

I hope the vette does it. That way there will be some pressure on the v-spec GTR

Wow. Finally a reason to watch WTCC. We just have to hope that this has a Disney film ending with the hopeless underdogs snatching a surprise victory!

Essentially the SVA test for road legality cares little for driver safety; it's the effect on people you hit that is legislated.