At least in Finland and Sweden BMW M20, M30, to some extent S50 and S54 and specially M50 are VERY common engines for tuning. In the States it is mostly about SBC and LS, In JDM scene it’s about Toyota & Nissan straight sixes, in Europe it seems to be about BMW straight sixes. There are many building MB and Audi…

Saab 900 hatch aka. 3 door. Carburated no nonsense version

If I had o choose one feature over everything else why I love E30, this would likely win, dash design visually on for its usability combined with those sport seats being pretty much perfect for my body. It just feels right

I can do full translation of that old article. Some random things for now: The engine really was from Group 5 Porsche 935. There really was some kind of freewheeling clutch in between front driveshaft and the transfer case. Both axles had some sort of LSD:s. Steering was unassisted and so were brakes. Car was geared…

Chris Harris was halfway there four years ago:

Pretty much mint BX GTi 16V. It shares the engine with Pug 405 Mi16. Not too many around anymore, at least in Finland. Interestingly BX is really, really light thing for its size, 1900-2700 pounds. This picture was shot at 3:20 AM. Love our summer!

Chris Harris Lister piece is magnificient. All those 250GTOs, lightweight E-Types, Cobras... The narration, pacing, filming...

This is something that puzzles me as a yuropean. I realize the history of settlers and your concept of freedom and being your own master etc. but still it seems so amazing that even though American and European cultures are quite similar in the big picture, there is this biiiig difference. Over there, at least in…

To me seeing all those hypercars at once really made it even clearer where the F1 stands in super/hypercar canon. It is just so much more pure than anything else. So much cleaner, so much... more. I casually almost bumped into Gordon Murray with his racing overalls while walking in paddock area.

I think 997 GT2 RS had about 630 horses so I would not be suprised if this thing had 700 or more

Few years ago at Nürburgring. Battered beasts with decades of competition use behind them. Best Gullwings ever.

As Team O’Neil like their RWD E30's, I’d LOVE to see 325ix getting thrashed alongside the Audi! If both viscous units (center and rear) function like they should, it should lock up almost as properly as manual lockers, while not being quite as blunt tool as the Audi. Oh and with better weight distribution, an extra…

I keep one of these in my car always. There are bigger and more effective tools to haul bigger amounts of white stuff but this one can be used to go through the hardest ice you could ever imagine (also tarmac for example)

I’ve been admiring his shirt taste for as long as I have known him. There is also one other british gentleman who has similar-ish taste in shirts. Doesn’t QUITE pull it off like May though. Makes up with other qualities.

MGA too!

If I think about the best pushrod crossplane V8 sound, this video is usually the first thing that comes to my mind. Between this and GT40 there seems to be just something quite magical with midship mounted crossplane V8...

How appropriate. I just came home from our garage. We were about to change my friend’s 325ix Touring’s right front drive shaft. But since we noticed few broken smaller things, we decided to not put it together today.

How about its European counterpart? I’ve always thought of these as really cool vehicle.

I’m just puzzled, puzzled and puzzled about that ProMaster review. I’ve driven Peugeot Boxer that is basically the same car. I also own a properly beat up Fiat Maxi Ducato mk2 from ‘96 and I genuinely think that they are rather nice things to drive. They go straight without too much guidance, they steer rather nicely…

Granted, it was pretty much no compromise design, but it really wasn’t intended to go racing. It was a lifelong dream come to true for Murray. For its first Le Mans year there weren’t millions added to make it a race car, there was barely a program around Le Mans. At this point Le Mans had turned into such specialized…