I'm a bit torn. I owned one of these as my second car ever. Not a turbo'd ricemobile but an example that was 100% stock when I purchased it. Best thing was, it only weighed something like 1900 pounds. I didn't do a thing to the engine, exhaust, or exterior but I put on some much wider tires, lowered the suspension…

In a modern factory car? GT500... It's even better in person. Somehow, this picture makes it appear a bit messy and it's really not.

In a modern factory car? GT500... It's even better in person. Somehow, this picture makes it appear a bit messy and it's really not.

You mention Mini, but they have two systems: one where you have to put the key in the dash, and one where you don't. I've had the latter for two years and I LOVE it. I don't ever want to go back. I don't ever lose my keys because I just leave them in my pocket. If I want to go warm up my car, I can get in, start…

Anyone disagreeing that the FR-S is underpowered has a blindfold on. We're in the second golden age of horsepower, and Toyota building an epic car with a Subaru power plant that accelerates slower in a straight line than my Mini Cooper. There's something wrong with that. They can do better, and they can keep the…

I get about 10MPG in my buddy's GT500 when I'm hitting it pretty hard. 26MPG doing 75 on the interstate. Of course, I've been able to get my Mini's MPG down to 12MPG when I'm hitting it *really* hard, so anything is possible. Were you doing 25 between stoplights the whole time? These cars honestly aren't bad on…

The computer and fuel gauge on my first-gen BMW Mini were very accurate. The manual said that after E, you had 1.2 gallons in reserve. And it was right.

Jalopnik is definitely not hating on Mini here. At least, no more than hardcore fans like myself are. I don't know what planet BMW is on, but 0-60 in 7 seconds does not befit the premium price Mini will charge for the supposed "JCW" version of this heavy best of burden. BMW: Hey, let's make a heavy, large, AWD…

"Hurray for brutality!" Get real. People who love to hate on cops love demonizing the taser. It's incredibly safer than a club or a handgun or OC/mace - the other options cops have at their disposal to gain compliance. I have been tased with the exact model of taser in the headline image - a Taser International X26…

This thing COULD be great, but I'm worried it will be underpowered. A three door hatch with AWD sounds awesome, but even the current JCW engine only makes around 210 HP, in a car that's probably at least 250 pounds heavier than the regular three door hatch. And expect the JCW trim to weigh in at around 40k with…

That they're making this abomination isn't the problem. It's that they made a small SUV and said "hey, let's just use the same engine lineup we do in our other cars!" - as if they didn't realize that adding somewhere in the neighborhood of seven hundred pounds of weight wouldn't affect the acceleration in a dramatic…

It makes perfect sense, you can absolutely match up the audio with the video. Just think about how we can have 24/30/60FPS and have no problems with audio, or video games that do well above 100FPS with audio. When you play back the video at a slower frame rate to achieve slow motion (say playing the 120FPS video at…

Having raced at a smaller dirt track, the safety barriers in that video are hopelessly inadequate from what I can see. Dirt track racing is ubiquitously amateur, and I hit the wall my fair share. I am shocked that this happened at the "Missouri State Fair" of all places, although I've never been so I guess I don't…

I see what you did there.

16X rotary in a Miata or Mazda 3. I miss my RX-8 more and more every day.

The engine start button on some U.S. military vehicles (FMTV's specifically, perhaps others) has a symbol that looks just like that, so I would bet on engine start.

1.2 seconds faster to sixty than the BRZ but gets the same acceleration score. At least now I can confirm my suspicion that the numbers have no basis in reality.

Turns. This shop turns. When you're going to make fun of something, try not to make errors in the title of your post. You get paid to write.

Mini Cooper Countryman. The base, non-turbo does 0-60 in 11.2 seconds. And that's when you're flooring it. If you drive the car normally, it's more like eternity. I know this because I was given one as a loaner for a few days, and I was nearly driven to tears by how slow it was. While I was waiting for it to get…

Mid-engined Corvette? This is what the Cadillac marquee is for. Don't mess with the Corvette, JC actually likes it.