What this needs is a 1.5 liter V12 Ferrari engine swap. Granted the engine would be worth many multiples of what this scale version Testa Rossa costs, but it would do it justice.

I’d be mildly concerned that said Panther drivers might be actual ex-or off-duty cops who might see a Porsche going whizzing by and have an uncontrollable reflex to do a PIT maneuver.  

It’s the perfect excuse to make Thunderbird 2 in 1/1 scale. Of course, as originally designed, the payload bay doesn’t have any windows but some airlines were testing out video cameras in lieu of real windows anyway, added bonus that you can’t get sucked out of them if they’re fake. Also, Thunderbird 2 is VTOL (at…

Rather than that 5th Option I’d go with the 5th Element—Multi-passssssss...

The “list slides” feature / icon in the upper right after you click the first lets you see all the headline descriptions so you can pick and choose which ones you want to spend time / clicks on.  Still a crummy format though. 

Je suis prêt.

That blue color is just stunning, I want that as an option on everything.

Lady Gaga approves. 

Such collusion would, of course, also be an antitrust violation. And there might even be consequences if they were caught at it. Maybe. But you’re correct that the manufacturers couldn’t pull it off anyway.

Just wanted to say I’m impressed with the whole line of thinking that led you pull that off. I don’t lease my cars, but I’m not sure it would have occurred to me that the CarMax buyout might be more than the payoff. Our present situation with the shortages maybe made that more likely, but still. What car did you sell…

In the 1967-68 Mustangs, there was also a foot pedal to operate the windshield washers (and do a sweep of the wipers) hinged above the highbeam button. The emergency brake was an L-shaped pull-push handle mounted just under the dash. A lot going on under there, I don’t know if the manual cars also had the pedal for…

Sounds very Coen Brothers to me. 

I happened to catch the closing minutes of this race and saw it happen. While I have admiration for attempting to game the system ala Smokey Yunick, the swiss cheese and acid-dipped cars, and similar shenanigans, this was a plain end run around everyone else, like cutting across the infield. So I have no problem with…

Domestic fury and fierce civil strife

Yo dawg I heard you like Shermans so I got you a Sherman in a Sherman doing a test drive for Car & Driver.

I have it on good information that the parking lot at the Institute for Insurance Highway Safety is pretty much a sea of Volvos. So yes, buy the most recent thing and maybe from a marque known for safety, and certainly not either a giant truck or a tiny subcompact, a kid needs to gain experience and some of it will…

I witnessed on different occasions at the airport, two similar luggage-related incidents. In the first, a woman arrived curbside to pick up her passenger in a Boxster, which was clearly the right choice for an airport run. He had two pieces of luggage, one of them a briefcase, and she first tried to get his carryon in…

I still expect you to contribute a piece on spec for No Time to Die, when October rolls around.  May your future endeavors stir you but not shake you. 

I’m willing to bet your same thought did not include wet cereal sculptures and ornamental ferret pillows. Just a hunch. 

Spot on re that stretch of highway being a traffic nightmare (particularly when the ski slopes are open but just always at any time), and giving the chance to slam on the brakes. Very frequent accidents as a result, which is probably the best reason not to use a vintage car with few safety features and a stopping…