“after Porsche closed their wildly successful Formula One team down.”

I can’t imagine 2nd gear surviving with that much HP. The stock RSX-S I had was fragile with just 200.

My dad owned this Lotus 30 when I was a kid and he drove it on the street. It had the same Ford 289 in it, but weighed 800 pounds less than the MK1 GT40. Granted, the backbone chassis twisted like a wet noodle, but that’s a Lotus for you. Anyway, my childhood was filled with moments blasting home from school as a…

Good thing the hydrant was there or it could have been Burnt Sienna.

The best one was Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, strictly because you get a glimpse into their lives: getting take out, sitting in recliners and watching Tootsie on DVD.

I can’t see one of these planes without thinking of the static display that used to exist at the SAC base in Plattsburgh, NY. Around the holidays, a giant Santa was put on top of the plane to form a very mixed message.

Jerrari!

It’s got to be the banned Lotus 88: “The 88 used an ingenious system of having a twin chassis, one inside the other. The inner chassis would hold the cockpit and would be independently sprung from the outer one, which was designed to take the pressures of the ground effects. The outer chassis did not have discernible…

A solar powered car that was being pushed through stoplights by some students due to overcast skies.

Finally, something with less passing than F1. It must exist merely to provide cocktail party fodder for Mr. Ecclestone.

That boysenberry 2nd generation Ford Probe color:

My dad once took his street legal (barely) Sports Racing Lotus 30 to a NY drag strip in the late 70s, watched everyone around him wonder just what the hell that furrin’ thing was, lay down a 12 second run on 10 year old tires and drive home.

Lotus’s statement only says that the contract between Lotus and Crashtor has been renewed. Lotus as an entity may cease to exist very shortly when Renault takes over.

Something tells me that the purchase of the Red Bull F1 team may be on hold.

For me, it was the VW GX3. I would have bought one in a heartbeat.

I would say that Joe Gibbs has some really shitty contract writers, given that this is the SECOND time that Denny has torn his ACL playing basketball. Who would let their athlete jeopardize their operation like that?

I for one am glad, given how under-inflated Rosberg’s tires were, that he didn’t get the chance to go to a Cars and Coffee event afterwards.

This was my bumper sticker for a while:

Not my <strike>president</strike> 1320 ft record.

Carbs with no filters make me itch.