As he concludes, it’s such a subjective question even at the best of times. I was fortunate enough to own both a madly-turbocharged car and a madly-supercharged car at the same time, and switching between the two was an exercise in both appreciating what the one had and the other didn’t, and missing what one didn’t…

I think Tarantino was purposely trying to scare if not injure Uma. A normal director would have had a stunt driver do the run several times, first alone, and then with the actor riding along to see the route before going to make the final shot. The sequence of events suggests he wanted to “teach her a lesson.”

Yeah, straight road, my a$$. She has to navigate esses in that piece of junk. Junk Karmann Ghia + not a straight road + 40mph = bad situation. She’s lucky to be alive; she could’ve be wrapped around a tree. What the heck was QT thinking with? His little thing? Bad.....where was the stunt/driving coordinator? Missing…

I watched Pulp Fiction last weekend for the first time in five years, and it was pretty shocking.

As always, fuck Quentin Tarrentino. It’s amazing how his fanboys are incapable of separating his good films from the giant asshole he is.

I agree, that road + that car + 40mph is WAAAY too dangerous for a non stunt driver. While beautiful, a Karmann Ghia is literally a deathtrap by modern standards. No shoulder belts, airbags, ABS, crumple zones. Hitting anything above 20mph in one of those is going to result in a hospital stay.

Yeah like how hard would it be to find a VW mechanic in Mexico of all places.

This is just incredibly stupid and disgraceful on Tarantino’s part. Forcing someone to do a stunt with practically no safety equipment is insane, especially when the person performing the stunt has no special training. Tarantino’s claims that he didn’t want to kill her may be true, but he sure as he’ll didn’t care a…

What a stupid thing for Tarantino to argue with his star actress over. He should have flown in a well-qualified vintage VW mechanic and his/her crew to have that car checked over and repaired to Thurman’s satisfaction before asking her to drive it at speed.

I knew everyone would jump on the $50,000 number, but remember a GT starts at $39,000, and that’s almost certainly going to the level most buyers spec their Stingers at. No one’s actually gonna pay $50,000 for this thing, it’s just a loaded press car price.

I tried the same after watching that earlier this week. Wasn’t an issue on our car.

“I can’t say I’d buy a Stinger at $50,000, but I would sure consider it at $39,000, and I’d probably take one over a Volkswagen Golf R or a Subaru WRX STI.”

Here’s a Lego Idea... take a few of those Speed Champions sets, a pile of minifigs, and combine it with this:

I wish they had done a better job with the Corvette. It just looks like a blob of a car, and it’s barely even wedge shaped.

im siding with torch... gotta love the panda

Get an uglier 4runner with a V8 instead

Come on, you guys got nothing on this:

Reminds me of an owners survey some time back. Love is blind. VW owners (and by extension Audi) tend to love their cars the most while simultaneously reporting the most problems per mile of any brand. Yup, I loved my b5 Passat wagon, but man, it had a lot of issues.

I noticed that two of these stories involved the purchase of a used Audi.