This is why I wish I had things like talent.

Wow, flogging that 1190 like it’s a 250. christ.

Well pretty much what makes your families American cars so reliable and the rest of the countries so unreliable, is that you’re not American. For whatever reason, American’s only do any sort of maintenance on their cars when they absolutely have to. If it’s still rolling, that means it’s fine. Couple that with…

The worst was when I bought my first car, it was during the real big buy American ordeal. It was a used Scion tC. Everyone got on me for not buying American to which I said, no American or foreign car manufacturer is getting any money from me buying a used car. An AMERICAN car dealer made some profit off me though!

Ehhh I’ve got to disagree, Renault are really second only to Ferrari in F1 history.

It’s not completely unknown for manufacturer engines to be used under a different name. This guy supplied several teams in 1987:

Hmm lacks something. Where’s are the scalpers in trenchcoats pushing teary-eyed kids outta their way?

Bless you, my son.

What is it? I have an ‘81 Spider 2000, which is absolutely a Fourth Car, even though it’s currently my second car.

Where do you see a turbo? That alternate intake tube looks like how they pipe engine sounds into the cabin area.

The “yeah, you were right camp” still hasn’t driven the car. It doesn’t need more power. It needs non-prius tires and a better tune. That torque dip is the biggest POS on the car, but can be easily resolved with a $200 flash. And if you really want more power, spend $600 on a set of headers. 20 hp, 20 tq. Done. less…

This happened to me in Texas. I took my ‘02 Focus SVT across the street from work to have my brakes checked. Seemed like one of the rotors was warped. They called me not even an hour later and said I needed a complete brake overhaul to the tune of $600. They also told me I couldn’t take the car as it was unsafe to…

Sure, I was just adding a bit more Portuguese language diversity to your very interesting post. I had heard Fusca many times, but never “Besouro”, so I was intrigued. A quick search on YouTube shows it is uncommon, but does happen. In Portugal, I don’t think I’ve ever heard a name other than “Carocha”. Traditions die…

Like most linguistic things, it is even more complicated than that. There are three common translations for “Beetle” in Portuguese: “escaravelho” with same etymology as the English word “scarab”, the aforementioned “besouro”, and “carocha”. In Portugal, the VW Beetle is called “Carocha”, which denominates any…

Sam at Gawker Media’s art department, which is the best in the entire biz.

Ok how about an expert opinion. I was racing in the VLN as well today. From what I have seen of the crash and know of the condition there today I believe 100% that Jann was blameless. All cars get light on the front end at Flugplatz. It happens every lap you drive through there. Up until this incident there has not…