kevinbarrett
Kevin Barrett
kevinbarrett

The Boxster got fat. It never looked svelte to begin with, just kinda puffy and formless, but today's car is tubby.

The lightest BMW available for sale in North America, without an electric drivetrain, is 3,300 pounds.

Wheels are not what connect a car to the road, tires are.

I'm right there with you on the yellow cars.


Steel wheels are best wheels.

The louvers also slant in the opposite direction from those of the F40.

Ugh, this weird chinless airplane needs to go.

One of these things is not like the others.

A classic bodied 911 needs those textured sealed beam lenses...the lights look too vacant without that texture. Likewise, the signal and fog light cluster looks like the kind of tuner product a teenager buys for his Accord on e-Bay. They delete the inlet, replacing it with a silvery light, and the exterior screws

I love every other detail, but the projector headlights and the "cleaned up" turn signal clusters are just wrong.

But they covered the most interesting bits where they actually dive down from the plenum into the cylinder heads.

This fender is taller than your kitchen counter.

The XK actually justifies its girth a little more. The F-type looks fat enough to have a back seat, but doesn't have one.

I see your Lycoming 18-cylinder (which never made more than 5,000 hp, actually), and raise you one Wright R-2160 "Tornado":

I don't see the engine. I see an elaborate induction system, and it's better than the Paganis and Bugattis, but I still don't see an engine.

In addition, Red Bull now requires all their drivers to spit before getting in the car. Every gram matters.

I remember when the 911 was a slinky body draped over some wheels, headlights, and an oddly placed engine. Now it's fat enough to hide all this bs.