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Paul Dumitru
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Any old tractor. No power steering, no power brakes, fully non synchronized transmission, ultra heavy clutch.

If you drive slow in the left lane—

“Feels like you’re always stuck in 2nd gear!”

Designed in and built by Aurel Persu in 1922 (Romanian engineer, the first to apply aerodynamics principles to automobiles) ,it was the first car to have the wheels inside its aerodynamic line.

Good news!

[The later Peugeot 905s were faster, but the early ones remain the prettiest of Peugeot’s 1990s Le Mans prototypes. Photo Credit: Getty Images]

I’m a fan of any longroof that starts with the letters RS and ends in an even number.

Car selection could be changed. Maybe a miata, torchbug, something crazy Jason has driven....

Here’s what I did. Credit to boneheadotto for bringing up the Lambugatti:

Throwing my hat in the ring again, because why not? Another variation of “Apex Everything”

All of a sudden the Veyron’s styling isn’t so bad.

I take option #2 and I’ll have Chris Harris’ 2cv. The moped engine gives me a 25% increase in horsepower.

COTD

Michael Schumacher.

You can run rich all day long. You can run lean once.

That would make it worse. The direction of loading of this control arm is literally every direction but up and down as you described. The spring and shock aren’t mounted to it so it’s free to rotate in that plane.

Might not be your thing, but on a basic level, anything related to motorsports is stupid. NASCAR is a bunch of cars driving in ovals crashing into each other. Pretty stupid. F1 is a bunch of cars on a track together that are so fragile that an accidental front wing touch gives you a flat tire. Pretty stupid. Spec

here's that C5-R pic in full size - at the Bucharest Ring in 2007: [www.flickr.com]