I wonder if the first transmission gave up the ghost because that awful shifter ruined the synchro rings. 

I wonder how fast it would be if it was normal?

Concur.

Concur. Martini and JPS tie for second-best. 

...and you’ll correct yourself straight into Jesus’ hands. Yay!

“Tesla Semis pulling giant cargo containers that are just giant batteries”

True that.

I like where your heart’s at, Sergio, but if Ford Motor Company sends a Lincoln-flavored Muskrat out the door with anything other than a“Mk. IX” badge glued to the back I hope they all go straight into the crusher playing Moonlight Sonata. They won’t call it the Lincoln Thoroughbred, either, because that would make…

Concur.

The driver entered a damp roundabout too fast and it spun up there.

With those bumpers a driver could run into many things just for the wicked hell of it, or push a shopping cart up to a such a speed that, if it hits a curb, it may vault way up in the air higher than a tree.

Frankenstein. For those of us who’ve read the book, the only way for the maker of this thing to live through it is to build another.

Missed a trick not naming it the Stranger. 

One of the old-timers on Octane magazine’s staff used this or a similar test. It is a good measure of real-world quickness for many cars and sends pedantic miserablists into a right good froth.  

An elegant and understated Ferrari is a lovely thing. Here’s what one looks like when it’s normal.

I think not, and I spent a while in good faith looking. Fangio, Robert Duvall, Raoul Duke and (of course) John Kerry are all there, but no Ana. Life is strange.

Concur.

We’ll I’ll be...

I suppose Marcos must have been a pretty insular British racing marque. Colin Chapman, over at Lotus, and several others were finding great success with “holes” — round absences of material often made with a “hole saw” or similar implement or cast into a panel or member. A “hole,” by its nature, adds lightness. A few…

I wish I had a bass boat and a Z-28, but I guess those things will have to wait.