You bite your tongue! They were originally vertical and look awesome.

This is very exciting to ponder. I still get excited when I see an R8 on the road. I know they’re not tremendously rare or hypercar-expensive, but they look phenomenal and make Porsche 911s look dull.

This is what I’m waiting for. v10 6 speed for under 80k. They are close but not quite yet.

If we are saying the best value for bottom feeding, then I have to say the Audi R8. The current MSRP is $160K and the going rate for a 3 year old model is sub $100K. This 1st gen Ebay example sold for $58K. A 2 door sports car with a gas guzzling engine is neither practical or efficient. In bad times, people will…

Air Cooled Beetles:

Rosen Motors tried to do a turbine-electric hybrid. They had problems largely around how to store the energy. They decided to go with a flywheel, which is a good compromise, but capacitor technology (and batteries) are better, now. It might work, at some point. The problems of heat and pollution still need to be…

First off, those cutouts on the bonnet are pretty neat. I like the shapes they used. Something I’ve never seen before.

Well so far Putin has whipped his ass from Crimea to Syria and the Chinese are doing whatever they want in the south china sea. Maybe chess isn’t Barack’s game.

What a back-seat it is though.

That could be a bad idea...

You’re ridiculous. 

Any high-performance engine should really be warmed up for at least a few minutes if you want to make sure it lasts a while. Tolerances are tighter, compression is higher, everything is more sensitive. Now, in an appliance car, absolutely. But in something that can reasonably trace the distant roots of its engine…

In some weird way, I find this kind of cool. There is something sexy about a peaky engine that doesn’t like being cold or puttering around at low speed. Modern engines do everything so well that they require less of you as a driver.

What? You know there is such a thing as thermal expansion that takes place as the metal in the motor warms and gets to operating temps, right? That isn’t something that can be accounted for by the ECU alone.

If they are required to homologate that then rear-mid engine is an interesting direction they could take the GT3/GT2 road cars toward.

Plot twist: Porsche is testing a flat 12. that extra space is for the back half of the engine.

They kept the number as a status symbol. You wouldnt want your newer E class AMG be called E40 AMG while other peasants drive older ones called E63. That is just insulting.

I know I spent a lot of this article insinuating the pointlessness of this thing but it really is a thing of beauty. The E-Class/5-Series/A6/TLX/CTS/XF/ect size bracket will forever and always be the Ideal Normal Car as far as I’m concerned.

If this comment isn’t COTD, you’re killing people.