Well as usual we here in Venezuela get stiffed. We have the cheapest gas in the world, but due to current political and economic problems we get nothing. Hell in a country of 30 million people we only sold something like 450 cars in the month of January. I honestly thought the rest of South America was still…

But critics, car collectors, aspiring enthusiasts and would-be importers have derided the laws as protectionist and arbitrary. Some vehicles can be imported under what's called the "show or display" law, but that is limited to an approved list of certain cars and restricts how they can be used.

In hindsight the best investment would have been a 964 RS America. They were 10k cheaper than the base Carrera and are reaching 100k right now. But then again I am talking about chump change when we are talking Scuderia money.

This is true, but looking at the H1 V8 it looks more modified Hyabusa than a purpose built design. From what I read it looks like this New Zealander only used the heads off of Kawasaki and went clean sheet on everything else. I am by no means an expert though so my two cents is not really worth much.

In the PH article the talk about swapping out the final drive ratio on the rear end. The car is running something like 5.15 rear gears.

Synergy 2.4L V8, engine block machined from 6061-T6 billet of aluminium, compartmentalised dry sump system, 5-stage rotor scavenge pump, bumper-mounted oil tank, flat-plane billet crankshaft with full counterweight & nitride finish, forged vacuum refined 4340 steel H-section connecting rods, ARP bolts, forged…

78k is too much money. Yes I drooled when first seeing it, but again too much money. Hartge IIRC also shoehorned the M5 V-10 into a 3 series a while back. But the charged something like twice the price of an M5 for the pleasure of ownership. No one ever said bat shit crazy was going to be cheap, but I just can't…

Out of the full year of ownership of your Ferrari, how many days do you think you actually had it out for a drive? On a compmletely different track of ideas every law has a loophole. The real question is are you really willing to put all of the work and money into sidestepping a law that in the long run you really…

Honda has promised that the new 276 horsepower (or more) Civic Type R will not only be the baddest hot hatch around, but also the most extreme Honda ever made. How fast will it go? Up to 167 MPH, the company announced today. As they say in Japan, "That's a spicy meatball!"

I am going to go with Jaguar. I am probably wrong, but they were the first one's that I personally saw that did it that way, or was it Mercedes Benz?

If I am not mistaken that is a last gen Colorado, and it is only sold in Brazil as far as I can tell. The rest of South America gets the D-Max from Chevy, in both Diesel and Gas offerings.

The Colorado is great, but don't call it "small."

So if Lockheed Martin had initially envisioned something like this for the LCS and this was such a booming success, then how is it that it morphed into what we have today? I am guessing the Navy is to blame for this? Kind of like how some paper pusher at the Pentagon is to blame for the compromise in design of the…

Amazing article, some of the best reading I have done in a while. It was very enlightening hearing from someone with first hand experience how truly different these aircraft are capability wise. Thank you for this great piece Tyler.

I will give you exotic on a carbon fiber basis. But if you really consider the I3 to be exotic, then what was the EV1? Renault makes the Twizy that I think has similar range. There really isn't anything that I can see that is all that great about this car, well okay the eucalyptus interior is pretty cool, but it is…

The DDG-1000 is to the Navy what the F-22 was to the Airforce. A technical tour de force that baffles the mind with its capabilities. My only concern with regards to the linux based system is that some genius on a laptop in his mothers basement might one day be able to hack into its systems.

Yeah you really don't want to drive anything that FIAT offers in South America on a Dakar. I would stick with Ford or Toyota. GM does not sell the Colorado down south. At least not at this time. VW does sell the Amarok so that might be a good choice as well.

I am an American that is patriotic as you can be. You cut me I bleed red white and blue. I get all teary eyed when I hear the national anthem. But by the same token I am not blind. I know our foreign policy has been a huge clusterfuck at times. Leaving our allies out to dry once "the mission has been…

The biggest problem we have is that we have alienated India in the past. Having a war going in in Afghanistan an a potentially unruly neighbor to the east in Pakistan was not a good thing to have. So we appeased Pakistan at the expense of India, who for all intents and purposes has been the more promising ally. The…

Way way waaay too much money for a Salvage Title Audi. They could have swapped the RS5 V8 and the 6 speed manual into it and it would still be way too much money for an Audi of this vintage. Hack of 7 to 8k and you have nice price. At 15k you have Whitney Houston crack pipe levels.