The Miata IS the beige Corolla of track beaters

I bought a G35 from my parents. Sedan 6MT (Yes, they existed. The Infiniti product planners won that battle much more easily than their Lexus counterparts with the first IS300). I sold it 3 years ago and bought a BMW E85 Z4, which I find more fun to drive on track.

That’s a Mustang thing. Or maybe a Ford thing. Given that the GMT800 HD trucks have solid rear axles and just plow straight ahead, no matter what.

I’ve needed a reason to use this GIF on Jalopnik. Now I have it.

The comparison between a Ford 385 Big Block and an International Harvester IDI is reasonable, but also misses an important consideration...

He does Rembrandt van Rijn and does not do “De Nachtwacht”

The door problem can either be due to air pressure, or the latch sticking. My S4 has a sticky driver door latch, so it’s possible that it doesn’t close at all.

So if we move to words (carefully honed by me, someone who drives an S4 on the track)...

Lexus is attempting to be German without knowing what the word “understated” means.

To be honest, neither can Audi.

As a current Clubman S owner, I don’t like the new one. Too many doors (2.5 doors is perfect), too big (Why not buy a 3 series?), and I’m not a fan of the more cramped interior (when I sat in the new hardtop, the fact they moved the center stack further out into the passenger compartment makes things feel more…

Registration is a state function. The only way they could force the states is to tie their federal highway dollars to implementing a system like California’s registration recall check system.

Look at the values of the mid-00s pre-emissions diesel trucks.

Until 2007, no. The HD pickup diesels (Navistar engine in Fords, GM Duramax and the Cummins ISB) were tested on the Heavy Duty Truck and Bus standard, which is more lenient.

The same argument (or rather the lack of argument) is made by companies like Amazon when discussing collecting sales taxes for states where the company does not have a “business nexus” and what exactly entails said nexus.

I cut my teeth on a Mercedes OM606.962, and now I’m driving a 310K mile LLY Duramax.

Or just buy a pre-2006 HD pickup. Same rough idea. Navistar T444 (if you are a Ford guy), LLY Duramax (GM crowd, just get the Kodiak intake...), or Cummins ISB 5.9 24v.

Metric is good for these reasons, so I tend to think of temperature in C.

Or how about a new 5 speed Allison 1000 in your Chevy pickup because the fool at O’Reilly’s told you to use DEXRON VI ATF instead of DEXRON III H-Spec or Allison TES-295 spec?

I had trailer brakes go out on a flatbed car carrier with an Audi S4 on it, and I didn’t notice there was a problem until I had to stop going up an offramp.