jimmythemonkey
MazdaMonkey
jimmythemonkey

I used to work a lot with Mazdaspeed. Been lucky enough to drive and work on many awesome Mazda's over the years. The rotary Le Mans cars are definitely my favorite. Mazda USA still brings the out the 4 rotor 787, 792, and GTU cars to an historic racing event or two each year. I highly recommend attending if you get

Coolest concept car of all time. Hands down. Shame it is no longer with us.

I was once a passenger in a Lincoln Mark VIII going around 50mph in reverse. Must have been the same engine/transmission package. Terrifying!

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I once drove the Mazda Furai concept car for about a mile at parking lot speeds. One of my favorite car experiences ever.

And let's not forget, we're talking about a car that weighs 2,495 pounds when specced with options you don't have to choose. That's 50 pounds less than a soft-top Miata. Or to sharpen that point even further, the 4C undercuts the Cayman by nearly 500 pounds and weighs 550 pounds less than the Lotus Evora.

I already knew how much freedom a pussy magnet yellow Corvette Stingray can spray all over the place at the time I entered Corvette Racing's garage, but the road car is nothing compered to what hits the circuits all over the planet. The C7.R is so wide and so low that I'm pretty sure this is what GM had in mind in the

His editorial dissecting and blasting the Veyron nearly a decade ago was much more entertaining.

Nice! I totally forgot about Victory by Design. I haven't thought about it in a decade. I have to go back and find my old DVDs...

Amazing. I cant believe you found another video involving a famous F1 driver piloting a super car on a race track whilst wearing loafers and giant socks.

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Great video! But why do people always insist on putting music in the background of driving videos. No one wants to hear music. Just engine!

I once worked with an ALMS team that had to rebuild a decimated prototype overnight. It was one of the most impressive things I have ever witnessed. The team had a much smaller budget than Audi at Le Mans, and had to pull many spares off of a display car, but they managed to almost pull it off (the replaced fuel

I really want to know more about this missile launching you speak of. What kind of missile? How did she get it? How awesome was the explosion? That's what your reporting should have been focused on.

Definitely. Although if the ND looks anything like the new Mazda3, this gap will close significantly.

This biggest news here is that this Carbon-tubbed $54k car will weigh more than all four generations of the Miata.

The 2006 Audi R10 Diesel was pretty damn weird when it first debuted. A diesel race car that actually won!

I don't care for stanced cars just as much as the next guy, but this video made me seriously cringe.

Of course. I was just trying to make a quick point, not write a treatise on a properly setup car. See above.

Of course. It's hard to convince me to get into a car without a full cage, HANS support, and upgraded brakes.

My neighbors easily have this one beat. They have a Hummer H1 and a Tesla Model S. Doug "Doge" DeMuro can verify!

I've seen someone die at Road Atlanta. It can happen anywhere, especially for people tracking completely stock cars with no additional safety equipment. I won't run in a car unless it at least has racing seats and belts.