I definitely had a "do my eyes deceive me?" moment when that bugger met my gaze.

It is seriously vying for most ridiculous shaving-related device. It may even beat out the "Goatee Saver"

No Joke. With the way graphics are going in top-shelf driving games, it will soon be difficult to tell the difference between a screenshot and an IRL snapshot at first glance.

Nascar for sure. Nascar pit crews still have to deal with five proper lug-nuts per wheel. The car is much heavier than an F1 car. More difficult to get it picked up, less forgiving if you pick a bad angle to do so. Nascar pit crews also do more optional stuff. They'll make actual, physical changes to the suspension or…

But they still only had single-lug wheels

+1, Patrick dropped the ball on this one. The final-gen GTO will never be a classic. However, a different Pontiac from the same era:

+1 for prediction of "lame 5 door blob"

I'm %100 with you on why GM can't sell the Volt. It's the styling. It looks like a gussied up Prius as well as every other eco jellybean out there. The volt is a well-engineered, capable car and all the nuts-n-bolts stuff going on underneath makes it worth the high price. Trouble is, it just doesn't look as special on…

Aggree on the power. There's no way Subie will add a substantial amount of power to the STI version of the BRZ. Seriously though, even an extra 30 bhp would be hard to achieve on the BRZ motor using only NA tricks and without swaping out the cylinder blocks. Just look at how much the tuning community has been…

Two very different animals here in gearhead-world maybe. Out there in the real world populated by normal people, a 300 bhp BRZ and WRX are essentially the same car. Smallish four-seaters with potent turbo 4-pots, a harsh ride, a loud cabin, and aggressive looks. RWD vs AWD? A minor detail to most folks. Subaru will…

That just isn't the way marketing guys see it. Equal-ish performance means competition, period. If the BRZ STI gets anywhere near 300 horsepower then it would have similar 0-60 times as the WRX STI and a close-enough top speed. Just because it is RWD and looks different doesn't mean that Subaru wouldn't be worried…

$10 says it gets some properly credible improvements in the suspension/rolling stock department, but no significant added power. No more than 10 bhp added via ECU, exhaust or some add-on like that. Will probably have a bigass wing, obnoxious front clip treatment, totally pointless quad-tip exhaust, etc.

The biggest obstacle to Subaru adding a turbo to the BRZ is probably not related to engineering, but to marketing. Like Porsche with the 911, they may not necessarily be comfortable with taking the BRZ platform into the same performance envelope as the now-storied WRX STI. If Subaru wanted to deliver substantially…

You know that you are irrevocably a car nerd when you look at photos of a twin turbo T-Bucket and the detail that excites you the most is the oil cooler come counterfeit licence plate.

Meh, might as well just throw it on there if you were planning to get pulled over anyway:

Yea... somehow I don't think the owner was going for a "sleeper effect".

Kindof, but a gold-digger is using their sexuality strictly for monetary gain. My "slut" definition is a lot broader, covering people who fuck for all kinds of bad reasons. Revenge, social status, extortion, etc.

You seem like you'd have a good opinion on something I've been wondering about.

It's that super-short wheelbase. Makes the thing whip around something fierce :o

Hah, came here to make a comment just like this. They'll easily be able to make the i3 as fun as any of their other vehicles by making all of their other vehicles numbly antiseptic to drive; which they've already been doing for quite some time now.