About 5 years ago was heading back to Milwaukee from Chicago with fairly heavy traffic on a 6-lane highway when everyone in front suddenly broke. Almost every other car swerved to avoid eachother and the smoke of burnt tire literally clouded almost the entire highway. About 1/4 mile in front of us someone merged on…

... wait... who the hell hates them? I’ve never known an enthusiast to say the E36 was a boring car or bad in comparison. With that said, I’ve driven and worked on them in past and would gladly buy a clean 4-door E36 M3 over my old E39 M5. Something about the tight little package, telepathic steering input, and being…

Lately, these Ring challenges don’t make me impressed by the car as much as they do the drivers. The cars have their own characteristics and are fairly similar in terms of overall performance. But if you’ve ever tried to do a best lap time at a local 2-3 mile circuit, even then it can be infuriating to get perfect.…

I would volunteer to hand out fliers at C&C events about “The Dangers of Cold Tires & Torque”

Just do your preventative maintenance on the intermediate shaft bearing.

I used to own one as well but I have no idea what you’re on about. You don’t buy an M5 because of something you need, but rather because it’s what you want. I had no reserves about downshifting and ripping open that 7k redline.

Met the owner of a pieced together 250 GTO at Road America years ago (2006?). He had gotten a spare factory motor and a used spare race chassis from the old Le Mans team and put it all together with the help of a Ferrari parts distributor and tuned to motor to “500 at the crank”. He actually drove the damn thing…

There is nothing to “buy”, it is a pretty clear objective. Just because there isn’t a driver doesn’t mean the software engineers writing these algorithms which are unique for each track and weather conditions aren’t competing against each other.

If you’ve done any form of motorsport racing then you understand that with…

Economically damaging? Last I heard, the GTR was selling pretty well for the past 10 years. Along with all those other cars you mentioned.

The only “bad press” I’ve seen is comment sections livid that a car they can’t afford doesn’t offer what they want.

Sarcasm aside, I had the chance to drive a new C63 last year through the Rocky Mountains for a week and one of the most impressive bits for me was the transmission. I used to be “that” guy about manual-only, but these newer generation of automatics are so incredibly smooth and responsive that I almost find it more…

I’ve always loved the “Z” they designed going through the front quarter panel BMW badge.

Isometric view makes anything look bad. I’ll wait to see some actual perspective shots.

When the one clamp you shouldn’t safety-wire needs safety-wire.

I see almost as many blow-outs from this than low tread and I’m amazed more people aren’t aware of checking manufacturing dates. They’ll see that the tread depth is fine but ignore the obvious signs of dry-rot. Once that little crack catches a rock or nail at 50 mph it carries along all the other cracks and shreds it…

The older S4's are completely different compared to the B8 in terms of chassis and power delivery. I wouldn’t write-off the B8 because of it’s predecessors unless you’ve driven one - it is almost a night and day difference. The B8 makes peak hp from 2500-5000 rpm and then the torque curve carries it to redline, unlike…

I know you’re getting a lot of hate, but I agree. Drove both sedan and coupe, manual and DCT versions and weren’t impressed. A manual B8 S4 with sport diff really surprised me, wasn’t as front heavy, and didn’t have to rev the piss out of it to get some power. Just looking at the dyno graphs proves how much more…

Yeah I would agree, this organization seems to have some definite liability issues regardless. Whether or not they knew before or after the crash is still an issue since he still made it on track.

That doesn’t state whether they knew at the time or found out later.

Yeah I’ve seen that before, but I’ve also seen guys sign-in for buddies who are late, etc. Most events I go to require everyone in the pits to attend, including spectators, for this reason.

Yeah... I agree. But whether or not they knew he missed the meeting and allowed him on track is not clarified.