That’s exactly how felt when I took the family around PIR in my Mazda5 last weekend. The track had an open house where you could take your own car out for two “performance paced” parade laps. I had the three- and five-year-old behind me chirping “This is fun!” as I blipped downshifts, clipped curbs, and wound it out…

WHOOP-pahhh!

I know it was just a replica, but seeing that car crash backward through the window and into the ravine still makes me catch my breath every time.

The Mazda Furai. As soon as they build another one.

at a restaurant that, for some cruel reason, had no flat surfaces in either restroom on which we could change her.

Lotus’s new shifter ain’t bad either. Why be subtle with your phallic symbol?

“One thing that puzzles me, though, are the things that give the U-Wing its name, those two long aerodynamic-looking prongs.”

Torch, the answer is right in front of you. It spent its entire working life going to church, and you yourself called it the Holy Grail.

Careful, they might pin a medal on you.

Amen. The testing should account for the source of the gas, too, with published statistical results. Then we’ll know if Chevron/Shell/etc. name-brand gas is really better than Rusty’s Fill-Ups & Hair-Doos.

Porsche has a pattern lately of naming somewhat similar cars with sequential numbers (e.g. 917 —> 918 —> 919). Following that pattern, I would guess the 960 is a successor to the 959.

Beat me to it.

How the hell have I never read you before? That was magnificent. Please post frequently and liberally.

No, Torch is off having a moment to himself right now. Cold shower and a cigarette, I’m guessing.

They could even do a smaller version based on the Hummer H3 (just skip the H2, please). Call it the Sasquatch Cub or something.

Here’s the thing, though: with a name like Sasquatch, it’s got to be a serious off-road machine along the lines of the Jeep Wrangler or Ford Raptor. If it ends up being a cushy crossover or blinged-out boulevard cruiser on stilts, the name will be ruined.

Back on the day before sponsorships got really big, this was pretty typical for top-tier drivers. Guys like Jim Clark, Dan Gurney, etc. raced in F1 one weekend, F2 another, Indy another, NASCAR another, Le Mans still another. Going after that much prize money was the only way to really make a living in racing. (The…

These things always seem to come along when I lack garage space and spare cash. I wonder how many more air-cooled 911s will change hands at this price, complete or not.

On an unrelated note, can a guy get un-grayed around here?

No, see, you’re doing it wrong. You have to flip the passenger-side sunshade down to the third detent and open the vanity mirror, then you’ll be able to see it perfectly. Granted, the Ford rep should have explained the procedure, but presumably they figured the world’s foremost turn-indication expert would be familiar…