This was and remains my favorite car review in recent memory. The Veyron is like the Concorde - a corporate push to the cutting edge of technology and deliver the fastest, most powerful car money can buy. But the Concorde required government investment to complete and was never a profitable vehicle for England or…

The cost of housing in your area: In most cases, people rent because houses are just too expensive, but it all depends on the market in your area. If renting is extremely costly in your area, it might be more affordable to buy a home.

IIRC, the M2's were JDM only.

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I’ll give you that on the LS, but that Mustang will not be cobbled together by someone Viktor Frankensteining a performance car with a full size pick up truck. Considerably less risk involved in a factory assembled car and the Mustang platform has a healthy aftermarket for modifications.

It doesn’t necessarily have to be large budget, but I get your point. My point being that a job worth doing is worth doing right.

Not always true. The ubiquitous LS swaps are a testament to the power, reliability and compact size of the LS block. While there are many, many ways to modify cars of all types, there are relatively few ways to do it right on a performance car. As a general rule of thumb, you want to enhance the car’s weak points…

You’re risking someone else’s workmanship. At $4000, a properly sorted stock Mustang GT of newer vintage would be less risky in terms of reliability.

The asking price isn’t that bad, but let’s just unpack this.

What a lot of people don’t know about Cabrini Green is its location. You’ve heard of people living on the “wrong side of the tracks”, but Cabrini had no geographic lines that typically delineate neighborhoods. It’s a mile down Division to Oak Street Beach, home to some of the most expensive residences in the city.…

Always had a soft spot for this car. Would be fun with a manual and firm suspension setup. Great sleeper.

Especially if you don’t drive it every day. Bought mine in 91 and lived in Georgia for a while. At the time, the state had the lowest gas prices and the lowest gas tax. Sub-$10 fill ups.

For the better part of a year, I would get a phone call from someone asking for “Brian”. He was a nice older fellow looking for what I can only assume was his son or son-in-law. The problem is he had absolutely no idea how a cell phone address book worked, so whenever he tried to reach Brian, he’d do it by clicking on…

Take it from someone who graduated from a boarding school in the 90s. The communities are very small - often less than 250 people total, including faculty. Everyone knows everything about everyone. I knew the sexual proclivities of upperclassmen, even if they weren’t true. Roommate caught you masturbating? You’ll be…

It’s “dream cars” like the Chiron that have soured my dream of owning an exotic. You can’t call it a plaything for the rich if it’s so expensive that no one who owns one actually wants play with it. They might as well call it “The Unicorn” because you’re just as likely to see one out in the wild. And if you are so…

I would say the Spectre, but we already have a flying can of whoop-ass with that name.

“It was last summer and I had been to haute couture”

This is Rocky. He was clever and sweet and loved everybody. If you were sitting alone in my home, you’d have company whether you like it or not. Rocky was my best friend in spite of his night howling, which we later found out were from migraines caused by an overactive thyroid. Compound meds stopped it, but he still…

If you want to understand why we approached Vietnam the way we did, look up George Kennan’s long telegram. It set the basis for America’s confrontation with the Soviet Union after the second world war.