Yeah, I’m baffled anyone let the revving go on that long.  I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a good rev or two to let people hear it.  It’s not like you see cars that like everyday and even more rare that you really get to hear one wind up vs just sitting static at a show, but 7+ minutes of it is just being a…

Yeah, the 86s really are good looking cars and tend to catch my eye on the road.  Something about the taillights always makes me look twice.  They just remind me of Ferrari lights or something.  They aren’t the typical blocks or crazy LED setups, just nice round lamps.

That’s fine and ultimately the entire stock market isn’t really based in logic, so I would agree that’s the case with any company. I think a lot of people just misconstrue Tesla having a higher stock value than other automakers as Tesla actually having more money than other automakers.  That’s more what I was trying…

I like that analogy. Basically assuming it is going to be worth it in the long run, even if it isn’t worth it at present.

It’s interesting. Mustangs, Challengers, Chargers, Infinitis are what you could call cheap speed, or a democratization of power. You don’t have to spend supercar money to get what was supercar performance not many years ago.

Tesla reached a $100 billion valuation this week, the first American automaker to ever do so and a valuation that meant it is now worth more than Volkswagen,

That’s pretty much true of any pushrod engine though, and really almost any engine in general. I did new head gaskets on a 2000 Jag XKR with little more than a regular tool set. I had to buy/rent a crank damper holder and I made up my own cam locking blocks (I didn’t really make anything, it was just a flat piece of…

Ah, okay. Those are good points and I would agree. I think a lot of engines are starting to go that way, but the LS might have been one of the first to do it more mainstream. I know the 3G Hemi had a similar lifter sleeve setup that let you do cam swaps without having to remove the heads and lifters. That is a nice…

Wow, it’s pretty wild these guys are still at it.  I first heard them through the Tiny Toons music video episode with Particle Man and Istanbul when I was a little kid.  I think I still have it recorded on a VHS somewhere.  There was also one kid at my school that was a huge fan and had a CD of them.  I always enjoy…

What exactly do you mean by “easy” to modify? Are you just talking about GM’s aftermarket wing and all the stuff they offer or the aftermarket in general? I would say that GM didn’t do anything to make them easy to modify other than build a bajillion of them. They don’t just release the code and encryption to tune the…

Maybe I’m just not well versed in this, but I feel like the economically poor people would have the hardest time charging electric cars as they may not have the facilities to do so readily available (like a house). While I agree that making EVs easier for everyone to attain besides the well off is a good idea, I’m not…

I like the way any color accents the edge of the splitter, but that being said, maybe just tape off the splitter and hit it with a rattle can?  That seems a lot easier than a guard that may come off at any point.  And if they do change colors it’s easy enough to just paint them and put them back on I would think.

Nooo! Who is going to tell us if new cars are cat friendly now? I’ve got 5 cats, I need to know this!

I remember watching this as a kid too.  There are soooo many spin-offs for it now I can never keep track if I see one on some random channel.  The OG was the best.  I actually got a Gameboy emulator so I could play one of the games, though I think it was still in Japanese so I had to guess what the different menu…

She is.  She’s pretty much the reason I have mine.  If I she didn’t have one I probably never would have even thought about getting one when I was looking for a new car.  I was originally looking at Challengers, but found I could get a Viper for similar money.

Easily.  You could really do it in first or second if you wanted to as well.  First will get you to 60 mph, second I think tops around 90.  Little bit heavy on the engine braking though at those gears.  On the one track I race at it’s pretty much third gear for the whole course.  That tops out somewhere around 120 I…

My dad actually had an 03 Viper for a little bit, so we had three in the family. He now has a Challenger Scat Pack that he really likes though.

Both I and my mother have a Viper.  I might be convinced to let someone else drive mine, but my wife is probably first in line.  Have been meaning to teach her how to drive stick in it, but she’s had back issues on and off and whenever we get a nice weekend it seems like something else is always going on.  Just finish…

I think some of the challenge can be that video games can often take a long time to play through, and being funny for that long can be a real challenge if you are “locked” into a world. A stand-up comic routine might be an hour long or so, and a funny movie might be 2 hours long, but rarely would you find something…

Learner’s permit at 14 for both car and motorcycle, then a restricted for both at 15 (basically just to school and back), then full license for both at 16.  I think I was the first kid in the state of Kansas to ever get a learner’s permit on a motorcycle though.  The handbook mentions one and says you can ride with a…