Probably because unlike aircraft (where purged fuel falls down and away from the aircraft), a dump valve would send the fuel out onto the street — next to the car. Or (if blasted into the air) produce a nice fuel-air explosion — next to the car.

First of all, best of luck in the stunt! (although something tells me you won't need luck.)

Well, the claim could be true, depending on the engines mounted in the twin pods. The original P&W JT9D engines weighed in at about 8700lbs each, producing a thrust of about 50K lbs. The GE90 weighs over 16K lbs and produces thrust approaching (and in the top model exceeding) 100K lbs. So supposedly, a single mount…

What? You don't raise your own bacon-panda?

Great. I just just see this perpetrating a NEW stereotype...

Holy crap! An actual response to my front-page comment! Thank you. :)

OK, then as an alternate: 3rd-gen Mercury Grand Marquis.

Looks like an ex-police Crown Vickie P71 to me.

Chiming in for neutral — this is just an idea, but...

Well technically they still can, it just ends up on Youtube instead.

If by "support", you mean "also pay taxes", then yes, I will support you.

If this ever showed up in the same town, the 350Z would be badly damaged, but the 'yota would be totaled (after multiple rollovers and impacts, of course.)

Yup. I've had lifted trucks with HIDs sitting behind me with their brights on — there was so much light in my car that you could have done brain surgery in there.

Since most of the good (bad?) ones are taken, I'll add this one:

*sigh* I have great memories of first reading about the McLaren F1 in the R&T December '97 issue. For that reason (along with Peter Egan's articles), I've always looked fondly upon R&T and will miss them if they disappear (even if they went to pot in recent years.)

Whew, I'm glad to hear that — I have better credit than most people I know, and it's still a good 10-20 points under that average.

Graverobber, you're a cruel, cruel mistress. I want to click NP so badly, if for no other reason than to save this poor Miata from being consigned to the terrible abyss of Unfinished Projects.

"Your move, Bloomberg."

Acura SH-AWD? Not sure how well they drift.