@thinkerer: Have you ever *used* a Thermapen? I can pop open my BBQ and measure a bird in five or six spots in 10 seconds. The probe is tiny and doesn't leave a gaping wound. Really, the tip is so small that you can measure the temp inside pancakes or crepes if you want. Honestly, I'd pay $500 for on if I had to.

For that mileage and money, I think I'll find a 3-series, thanks.

@johnsonjf: This is true, but even most gardens hardly pay for themselves in terms of time/money vs. benefit. It's always going to be cheaper and easier to go in on a CSA share.

Awesome. In one thread we're calling for the head of a dump truck driver who made a careless mistake. In another, drooling over a video of two retards going balls-to-the-wall on public roads at way over 100 mph.

Everyone becomes an asshole behind the wheel.

@icecreamman: It's ok, gas grills can't do a steak justice anyway. Cast iron + stovetop is the only way if you don't have a monster heat source.

But wait, I thought the roads would be perfectly safe if everyone was a highly trained racing driver?

Because, really, who _wouldn't_ trust an arms manufacturer with the aerodynamics on a 170 mph death rocket?

These plus this: [farm3.static.flickr.com]

@Electro Gyrocator: +1. It can fit in a frickin' Miata or 944, so it can fit in almost anything. The power potential is HUGE and the cost of replacement when you over-boost it is minimal.

I'd rather have a super clean E28 than this. This is likely project car hell AND it doesn't have any collector value.

Top Gear USA would've been nothing but corporate whoring of energy drinks, warnings not to try this at home, and stunts sponsored by car companies. There's no way they could have stuck with the relative purity and honesty of the BBC version.

The Mini is the closest thing BMW makes to the 2002, is it not? In every department except for putting power down out of corners and sheer mechanical grip (a matter of tires, really), the Mini takes the cake. The shorter the wheelbase and the lower the power, the more FWD makes sense.

@mytdawg: Just do it. Seriously, on my first drive home in a 1980's BMW I couldn't stop thinking "WTF was I doing not buying one of these 5 years ago? This is exactly what a car should be." Classic car feel without nearly the cost of entry.

I LOVE these cars. My last one had the 4-pot M5 brakes, upgraded eibach/bilstein suspension, short shifter, light flywheel, chip, big sway bars, great tires, e-code lights, LSD rear, mild head work and more.

My wife and I spent the summer writing for a travel guide, covering the PNW, and decided to spent a week in Glacier Nat'l Park on the way home. I'd covered around 20K miles of ground in my 16v GLI over 3 months. A HUGE amount of it on unfamiliar, winding mountain roads in OR, WA, BC. I was pretty invincible by the…

@Peter S.: It's your fault. I've had a number of FWD cars that'd get all loosey goosey in the right conditions.

@tsarcasm: You've never had a throttle cable stick? I've had two cars do it in 10 years. It's very exciting if it happens while making a right turn out of a driveway in a rear wheel drive car without fancy traction control.

@NaturallyAspergated: I'm with you. This chart is not something *I'd* attach my name to.

@SeanKHotay: Cosmic rays sometimes causing issues isn't beyond the realm of possibility, but causing the _exact same_ error on multiple occasions is a little far fetched to me.