Holy Mother of God, that video. Maybe we are all desensitized to all the excellent in car video today but the Porsche on the non-neutered LeMans course gives me goosebumps as its so scary. Did anybody note the 911 that they came up on like standing still? If that doesn't get your attention, think about doing it at…

On the other hand, those cars didn't have fuel cells and most of the time they ran into hard things instead of tire walls. The result was an instant bath in gasoline/fire. I think a lot of guys in the day considered it a bonus to be thrown free. They didn't want belts. It was fire that they feared. They considered…

I am going to take a more benign read on this. Yes, the detent didn't meet the spec. Did I remember that the team purposely reduced detent force in an intent to make the switch feel more sophisticated to the user? If yes, they weren't doing all of this to kill consumers, they did it unaware of the consequences.

I don't think lift oversteer caused this. He got the back tires on the curb and it snapped. Actually if he had a better line or lifted before the dip, he never would have been in trouble in the first place.

Sometimes the margin between incredibly quick and incredibly stupid is small.

Grave of Lawrence Vogt, Pilot Died 12/24/44

Bad rust is a design problem. My wifes '02 civic SI has virtually no rust in the undercarriage and that is after 11 wisconsin winter where at some point the car will be white with salt spray. I saw a newer Mazda once, whose suspension looked like it as ready to fall off. Its a design and spec problem.

Something that gets overlooked is the amount of heat needed by a car. I work in HVAC and I seem to recall that the AC cooling system capacity of a car is in the range of 3 tons. This is about the capacity of a home air conditioning system.

The primary thing to consider is what is your intention. If its to mess around with cars, fixing lots of broken things, combined with some racing, a $500 car with no prep is a good way to do it. My observation is that most people underestimate how much prep is required to make a car live on the track for more than 3…

I've always wondered when somebody would make such a thing, A friend has a Chevy Savannah van for towing and it was worthless on the grass or mud. The number one use for vans are for service vehicles, and jobsites are often either covered with mud or snow. Taking a truck 4x4 drivetrain would seem to be obvious before…

Crack price, the car was for sale for same price at Bring A Trailer in December 2012 using same pics. Something is up. Here is my comments on Oppo LINK . I wouldn't discourage anybody from getting the car at that price but I would encourage them to get a reasonable answer as to what the the story is; especially if…

I was diggin it until I saw underneath the hood and the interior. Old cars can be wonderful if maintained, but nightmares if not. I wonder what maintenance he deferred in order to have the money for the pink seat inserts. That car is a plaything, if your really want a plaything get a civic as at least it will be…

Messed up as it is, if it starts and runs, it really should not be that hard to fix it. The air bags did not go off, saving you money too. I did a quick search and found an entire nose for an echo for $1300 in the NE.

My wife has owned a '87 CRX, a 91 CRX, an 02 SI and is looking for something new. The CRZ is the "easy button" for what she wants but she will probably chose something different because at 5' 6", she cannot see out of a CRZ for rear blind spots. Honda I guess forgot that seeing out of a car is an important attribute.…

Yo VTEC!

I can't really cheer the guy, he spun, and should have rolled and been dead. I assume no cage, or race belts. Problem?

I spent a little time on the outer outer edge of pro racing and concluded that it required you to have "no life, no wife, no time, and no money". But, if your answer was "hey, but you get to go racing", you might have a future.......

Uh, that's when I figured out they were real! ;)

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