JD McDuffie is a race team now?

Why? It was a venture effort that couldn't raise the required capital. Much like many before it, why would that make you lose respect for a guy who prior to that was nothing much more than an F1 journalist?

Did he eat Steve Jobs?

Methinks you don't get the point of the question. The CRZ got trashed by reviews when it debuted.

No, it was not highly reviewed by anyone. Most magazines hated it when it came out.

Congrats on watching Top Gear.

Dude, it's jalopnik - it reads like a parody of automotive journalism.

Remember when sanctioning bodies wrote rulesets to enable those solutions to be the only game in town?

The remnants of Lola were purchased by Multimatic up in Canada, so spares are still being built, and they allegedly are going to still work on engineering, but that remains to be seen.

Yes, when one thinks "newcomer to sports cars", one thinks Porsche. Awesome insight.

Third, after both Audis wrecked in the rain, and well off the pace of both the Audi and Toyota, but yea, sure, "coming for them". Good call.

Which ties into my "unless you live in California or Arizona" statement nicely. Last I checked, Sacto was still a part of that state with the bear on its flag.

I'm going to go ahead and say "links". Anywhere outside of The California/Arizona Desert, a 5k 80's Toyota pickup resembles the flintstone-mobile and has "active-aero" rear quarters.

For an alleged "enthusiast" site, this board always cracks me up when I see the reactions to cars on here.

11 5k examples of that truck might have enough remaining sheet metal to produce one semi-running truck.

In other news, Sun came up today, water is still wet and fire hot.

You are. This isn't some SCCA sanctioned Autocross, track day, etc. It's a "drift event", it's about a half step up from a couple of 17 year olds dicking around in a Target parking lot at 2 am on a Saturday night.

You mean according to the german tabloid article that was quickly discredited?

And I was responding in kind. The Jetta sucks, and VW's manual gearboxes suck. People that buy a Jetta want a boring grocery getter, why would you buy a manual gearbox for that? People that are horribly boring and insufferable hyper-milers opt for the manual/diesel combo.

Mom and Dad wouldn't buy him something smaller though, dude.