Actually I like the livery but those headlamps.....they just ruin the whole thing imo.

When I had my car worked on a few weeks ago, I saw one with a manual parked outside. Yes I was surprise.

The earlier generation X5. I know most of BMW cars come with manuals in Europe, but here in good ole Merikah, no one buying a BMW SUV wants to shift.

This wasn't ridiculous on paper, but probably wins for dumbest sponsorship + driver combo - the Steinmetz Diamonds sponsorship of Jaguar F1 at Monaco in 2004 that included embedding a $200,000 flawless diamond in the nose of the car. Unfortunately, they picked the car driven by that year's most-likely-to-crash…

He released a commemorative edition of his car to celebrate an unofficial record?

Is that a full leather couch?

I don't think this one's going "back to stock".

Not necessarily for shooting from, but more for scouting/observation. I suppose for quail hunting (extremely dumb bird) you don't need a blind or anything to fool them into thinking you're NOT there, so I bet the owners have 2-3 guests up there at a time sitting on one side of the rig, shooting AWAY from everyone.

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Thanks Paul for this!

I think we know what needs to be done.

It comes standard on Ferrari's.

If it rotated a full 360 degrees, how would you know from the chalk marks? ;-)

Instead of physical shells that would litter the course, why not use the kart-based projector and then use ancient laser tag technology. When activated, the shell is projected and if the laser hits kart sensors in front of you, that kart is slowed down or stopped briefly.

The only issue with throwing shells would be picking them up. The shells are only supposed to be available to them if they drive over the powerup. I guess you could have a box of them that opens once the powerup is picked up, but that would be a bigger undertaking than a lot of the other ideas.

I see that literally everybody beat me to this. But I'm giving myself bonus points for using a different picture.

Obviously no track does that. However no track has the demand to support that, either. What I mean is that a private track should be looking to take as many customers as they can (for revenue), whereas a governmental entity is less concerned with revenue. If a business turns away revenue to lower costs, there is no…

Why would they want to limit who can drive? How would less tourist drives make them more money? It seems like more tourist drives would be preferable from a money-making standpoint.

I've learned a great deal about the authors dislike of private enterprise and almost nothing about the ring.