It threw a rod. Broken rods are what cause the vast majority of catastrophic failures of this nature. The rod snaps and then goes swinging around the crank-case with reckless abandon, punching holes in the block and generally smashing everything in its path. Depending on the design of the engine various important…

Mastiff puppies grow up to have a wide variety of impressive skills. In my experience, their ability to hug babies is unmatched. Observe:

+ one million to this.

Man, there are so many great middle-ground options. Most of the time there is no need for high-priced stuff like Volks. Enkei is doing good stuff with their semi-forged MAT process. You get a good chunk of the performance of a forged wheel at a drastically lower cost.

+1 on that sentiment. If they aren't used for performance reasons then they shouldn't be used at all.

People buying expensive, forged, specialty motorsport-grade wheels purely for looks are idiotic. Perhaps you are not familiar with how Rays Volk wheels are made or how their process differs from a typical wheel. You can buy perfectly decent, cast-aluminum wheels that look exactly like TE37s for about 1/3 the price of…

Well, they're Rays; so anyone buying them strictly for looks is pretty idiotic. I can't speak for those people. However, they're so popular among the hellafunctional set because they come in tons of sizes/offsets, are crazy light/strong, and reasonably priced for a forged wheel. You get top-shelf, real-deal…

Yea, genesis has this problem. Zero bump-travel on the front suspension. They tried to solve that problem with massive bump-stops, but that just makes the shocks not work like they're supposed to. It has serious tuning/optimization issues. That said, it has a ton of good points and most of the problems have been…

I see! Damn. These guys are ruthless!

Ahh, so what you're saying is that Oracle's skipper could have avoided a collision by starting a more gradual turn earlier, but instead opted for a severe last-second turn to highlight how ETNZ had blocked their path? Tricky. Sounds like a futbol (soccer) player taking a fall after being fouled just to make sure the…

Damn, have never heard that one. +1 to Ganhdi there.

OK, wasn't sure. In that case Torchinsky was definitely mistaken in his assertion of the Brazil beetle being "...what may be the most advanced air-cooled Beetle ever made."

Came here to mention this. The story of the Brazilian beetle's revival is cool, but it is nowhere near "the most advanced beetle". Although, aren't those beetles of your home country also water-cooled? Purists like Jason may not consider it to be the same thing.

Woa... Ladies in car ads are generally made to look good, but there is something ridiculously appealing about the casual sexiness of this one. Hot damn.

I went to catholic school in the Midwestern USA for 9 years, and it was the weirdest experience of my life.

+1 to this.

Download that .gif and it can be!

+1, life-long Hoosier reporting in. The idea of lane etiquette is totally foreign to the morons who live here. On the interstate, people will get into the left lane, park next to a big rig truck, and just sit there for mile after mile.

Oh, most definitely. All old cars are slow compared to modern stuff. That's as it should be. Progress and all that. I only pointed out the relative slowness of American muscle cars to make the point that the Jag Mark II was no slouch despite not being super-quick by modern standards. The Jag was the same way as you…

I think it's more: "Why is this shit on your face? Here, lemme get that for you."