Virtual machines are wonderful things, and when you have the full internal specs to work from it becomes ALOT easier to make a VM that virtualizes the 360’s PPC chip and graphics chip. A lot easier is still fiendishly difficult, but at least its not “Impossible without massive hardware overhead”.

I’m not pissed about the new NSX, I’m pissed that I missed the boat on a Gen1 NSX when I was shopping for my current car back 2007. Back then, they were going for under 30k for a good example. Guess what, I paid 23k for a car that is now worth ~6k. Had I got the NSX, it would now be worth 45k+. That being said... I…

A CX-3speed might be what it would take for enthusiasts to finally like a CUV. Think about it... its pretty much a GTI with AWD and the pretense of offroadability.

Cars like this will need a totally different style of track for them to be truly interesting. When you have that amount of ground effects and power you’re asking for tracks which many times larger, with runouts measuring in the thousands of feet, so that you could actually use all that tech. Imagine a race where you…

Were the Brotherhood voices from the game? They sound like they could have come straight from a Warhammer 40k game instead of Fallout 4...

Haha, yeah... my 94 miata sure is a tank... I still think I’d come out on top in crash between it and a 127 though (unless I end up shiny side down...)

That’s one hell of a stunt driver... Some of those landing on the train looked pretty damn sketchy, and one really sketchy landing = one very hard impact into the dirt, with a side of possibly being RUN OVER BY A TRAIN.

Yup... you can do amazing things with little power if health and safety aren’t your top priorities.

Aussies... The only people who can out-redneck Americans.

Considering the original Mazdaspeed3/6 engine went into the CX-7, a refresh of both with this engine doesn’t seem that far fetched. The MZR engine is getting a little long in the tooth anyway, and was essentially a first gen DI technology test bed.

If the insurance company catches your car in one of those wreck videos (and they will... there’s cameras EVERYWHERE on that track, and people like posting videos) then I think you’re pretty screwed. Otherwise, I get the feeling they have policies like standard car rental policies that explicitly exclude the ring from…

Apparently making videos about Jeep lemons seems to be a pretty Australian thing, at least until they get their lemon laws fixed... http://www.destroymyjeep.com/

I thought spiking always meant putting something in a drink that the drinker didn’t suspect (like spiking the punch). I also thought egg nog at a adult gathering would already have alcohol in it. I think this is where it’s easy to make the mental leap from just “haha youre tipsy” to “haha you got roofied”.

So if you do the math and are generous about part costs (~$100k in parts) then given the 4000 hour number the costs are on par for a custom shop building a custom car. It ends up being ~$150/hr labor, which is a standard mechanics rate, at least in CA. Is it still absurdly high? Yup, but at least you can kind see…

You know what? Get rid of the stacks (its still a 3500, not a International or Mack), give it a nice tune for an even 1000lb/ft of torque, and that’s some “’urahh!” that you might be able to get behind.

I see RX7 from the back and Furai from the front, with a bit of grrrr-angry mazda corporate face. I kinda like it.

They should just call it the Infiniti Beluga, cuz its a fat whale of a car.

Did Honda move away from the single speed transmission experiment? That sounded like a good idea in theory, but Consumer Report definitely didn’t like it.

I have family with a plot of land in Oregon that no one is currently using. Ideas ideas... I would personally build it out for in a bit more rallycross style, but not sure if thats feasible on something less than an acre.

This friends is why rear wheel steering is a BAD IDEA™ on everything except forklifts. What you gain in maneuverability you lose in massive amounts of instability. I’m surprised Torch made it on a road, cuz you literally cannot take your hands off that wheel without it wanting to spin itself around. That wheelbase…