Yeah if you want people to think you’re a rich (but not quite rich) eccentric anyway, you might as well buy one o’these:

I’d rather have it look stock and spend the $6,000 on an LS1 with an enormous turbo and have a 15 second truck that traps 140mph and still looks like it has 110hp.

Exactly. Nobody who lives in the south would ever say Summer is the best season, unless they’re lying or forgot how clothes work.

So it’s like Rent but replace AIDS with a mob-fight plot in the background.

I’m gonna say 100% of the people in Florida agree with you. The rest are lying to themselves so they won’t cry.

Like I’ve said hundreds of times to people who say they hate the cold and love the heat:

I too am a big fan of somebody desperately rushing so fast toward a pedantic rejoinder that they don’t see the point flying over their heads — namely that $80,000 (heavily equipped) or $41,000, for a two-cylinder, 3-wheeled new car with 1960s safety tech is an awful lot of money.

Damnit I forgot about your mom’s cars. Turns out I have seen one without a sunroof before. Two, actually.

Reminds me of a girlfriend who was in the market for a new black BMW 325i and was working between two dealers, both of whom kept trying to stick her with an automatic transmission, playing up how much nicer it was. She wanted a damn manual, and she was gonna get it.

Reminds me of “Tech Inspection” at Montgomery Motorsports Park, where you show up with any vehicle, of any kind, fill out a postcard that says you’re a licensed NHRA driver, and you’re good to go. I’ve seen clearly improvised vehicles there, 4-wheeler ATVs, cars seemingly powered by explosives...

Yeah those burned out cats actually feed into themselves as a snowball effect of slowness. They get bad, plug the exhaust, car goes slower, engine dumps more fuel to save itself when it senses the problem, cat plugs even worse, car goes even slower.

and all the dirt that fell off from the violent tire-shredding first launch.

I’m gonna say it takes 12 seconds to hit 60mph, then another 9.6 seconds to hit 63.5.

Is it really funny enough to laugh out loud that he posted an incorrect number on the internet? There are times to be proud of yourself and disdain others, and Googling a number for five seconds is not one of them.

Yeah it kinda defies the point of being cheap to drive if it costs as much as a house in the first place. Nobody ever buys an i8 on a shoestring that they’re really hoping to recoup on fuel savings.

I couldn’t get past the first minute of the video. Those guys are way too busy entertaining themselves.

Well in truth, you make any NA piston engine put out 200hp per liter like modern day sportbikes can do, it’s going to get less than stellar mpg compared to other cars of similar power/weight that aren’t ringing the neck of a tiny engine.

Reminds me of the epic 240/240 race I had with a friend. It was a Volvo 240 wagon vs a Mercedes 240D. The 107hp Volvo absolutely annihilated the Mercedes. It was like watching a Formula 1 car racing a horse cart.

You put a Cummins in the back of a microbus and it’ll do a wheelie standing still.

You’d think, but they’re geared short and their engines might be one of the least fuel efficient for the size on the market. When I had my NA Miata I averaged about 23mpg combined, and could edge up on maybe 28mpg if I stayed below 70mph on the freeway. My 236hp Volvo V70 T5 got better mpg on the freeway with a…