Saying NHRA Top funny car is like " a sped up version of what I do everyday" is like saying an SR-71 is just a sped up version of a Cessna. The differences are so huge as to defy comparison.

Yeah this si the better volvette for sure.

Yeah, for Aasbo, right? Crazy stuff.

TVR seems liek the perfect company to create something like a punk rock GT86. Ligthweight, no frills, but 350 hp. That is what TVR does.

But here's the trick: Let off the gas when you pull the paddle. When it clunks into the next gear, get back on the gas. For downshifts, right after pulling the paddle, give it a light blip on the throttle. Shifts will be much smoother. It's not perfect, but it is much smoother. I do dig the raw feeling, but I'm not a…

The GM G-bodies of the 70's and early 80s.

Accept no substitutes.

I hate to say it... but make cars dangerous again.

Because in a high powered car even a small mistake in rev-matching can lead to a significant drag (and possibly locking) of the driven wheels. There's even a drifting technique called "shift-lock" in which the driver downshifts without rev-matching, dropping the clutch and causing a brief lockup or at least changing…

i think Sterling's rationale has something to do with the inherently risky nature of race driving, an a common belief that women are somehow "intrinsically" less likely to take risks than men.

Because the mechanics of living in Detroit - the actual day-to-day logistics of it - suck balls. Hipsters will not find the infrastructure they need/ want/ are used to in order to capitalize on the cheapness and novelty of it. Trust me.

Type 4 motor what?

No, you can see he tries to flick it in, but he doesnt flick it hard enough. rather than try to brake in a straight line and recover, he tries to make the turn, which (because he was drifting, and this is the proper way to drift) he was going way to fast to do. He gets understeer as he starts braking, and rather than…

Steps for drifting vs. methods employed in this video

73-74 I think has some weird emissions crap that everyone hates and so is now largely non-existent. So... thats probably a pretty original 73 bug. $6500 is a lot for a fat chick.

It is perhaps telling that he uses the term "old" interchangeably with "shitty". I suspect the repercussions for killing a pair of 99's or (*gasp*) 93's would have been almost as bad as the Bugatti.

Woo, H/T! Thanks Raphael.

There are tons of videos like this one, just look for "sinkex" on youtube, but I think this one is the best. Basically a sinkex is a "sinking exercise" when a decommissioned ship is used as for target practice by everything from submarines to fighter planes until... well, until it sinks. This one is cool because of…

It kind of looks like someone cut the greenhouse off of it in photoshop and reduced it by 20%, then tacked it back on. If that waistline got any higher, it'd need a belt.

hahaha, very true.