When I moved house a little while back, I lost all the receipts for the work done to my car, as well as the work record book itself (I had it on my desk that day). Guess I’m never selling it :(

Ferrari are well-known for tuning the ever-living fuck out of their press fleets, as was blown wide open by Chris Harris about ten years ago.

Honestly, how do you build this and not have it be scary?

An absolute beast was the twin-turbo 5.0 litre V10 unit from the C6-generation Audi RS6. Now that thing sounds like it’s trying to murder you when it hits redline. Combination of V10 roar and deafening turbo scream.

I miss the old days when numbers on the back of cars meant something. At least Audi did the honourable thing and eschewed the numbers entirely (going from ‘1.8T’ or ‘2.0' to simply ‘TFSI’ or ‘FSI’), instead of making the numbers wholly arbitrary.

Watching The Transporter 3 when I was around 13 is responsible, in its entirety, for my ongoing love of Audis, in all their unreliable glory.

Crank. And it puts that 650 down well.

Great writeup! Really enjoyed that :) And yeah, those V8 supercars are something to behold. Damn sad to see the Commodore and Falcon go.

As an Australian, I would like to sponsor your citizenship to our great nation. You are clearly qualified.

It’ll be interesting to see how those turbochargers compete against the most modern German 4-ish-litre V8s. Those engines all have the turbos mounted inside the the cylinder banks, to maximise throttle response, and are absolutely brutal. I’ll be interested to see if GM’s design is an improvement or not.

Does Jalopnik have any interest in covering the lack of Indigenous Australian representation at Bathurst? It’s a fascinating discussion that gets to the heart of some of Australia’s deep-seated race issues.

There is a ‘main’ map, which has Valenwood and Novigrad; you’ll spend probably 2/3+ of the game there.

Totally agree. A big reason why the grills worked is because the originals had matte-black grill bars, instead of massive chrome ones.

It doesn’t help that they make very little money off the R8, to my understanding. It’s always been a halo car; they’re almost certainly not getting back their investment. Particularly on account of it being N/A, whereas pretty much everything else they make is turbo or hybrid.

If you’re looking for the start of the ‘big grill’ trend, the C6-series A6 and B7-series A4 are the ‘patient zero’. Both of them are quite handsome cars, and set a lot of design trends. Sadly, things have gone downhill (both within Audi and without) since.

True. He took an Audi S4 with a supercharged V6 to a tuner, got them to reflash the ECU and put on a new pulley, and then managed to pull something like an extra 40% of horsepower out of it. It was ridiculous.

Their genius get-out-of-jail card here is that an Audi A8 occupant is almost guaranteed to survive any crash at 60km/h or under; those cars are built like absolute tanks, and will survive even the most forceful crashes.

And it’ll do that 0-100mph run three whole times before needing a complete refit of all the electrics, too!

Nope, the one where they bent up some headers.

Not always. More back pressure on NA engines can often gain you some power, as it prevents the motor from stalling.