Between 100 and 200 feet, depending on the facility. The fast trucks do it in a couple seconds but remember, it's mud - it's a lot different than racing on pavement, or grass, or even salt.

That Miata vid was outstanding... I do the same thing in my long-wheelbase dually every chance I get, so in something small and light and perfectly balanced must be (literally) a ton of fun. Too bad I don't fit in a first-gen Miata... :(

Yes but all that shit from the vinyl place, and the tire place, and the window tint place can't be rolled into your monthly car note. And that's the point you're all missing, and why dealers can and do "get away with" all the damn time.

That generation F150 doesn't even have automatic headlights anyway (they came with the redesign for '04) - it's a simple round switch at the top left of the dash.

"You're not on fire, Ricky Bobby!"

She becomes Elizabeth Windsor or whatever her actual name is, and has to get a passport. It's not complicated.

The object pictured IS the spring. Its rate is determined by the amount of air pressure contained therein.

The "air bag" is the spring. In this picture, the aluminum "piston" sits on the axle and the upper plastic section sits on the upper spring perch and is secured with a large steel clip.

You're wrong.

They're not air shocks, they're air springs - just like on a semi tractor.

If the car is built by a reputable limo builder (Carey, et al.) it will be ordered as a limo prep and will have the uprated rear springs in it.

The limo prep package air springs have a considerably higher rate, and have extra steel belts inside them. They're readily identifiable by their aluminum "piston," while normal, "soft" springs have a beige plastic piston and the intermediate, "performance" springs (on Touring Town Cars and HPP Vics and Grand Marquis)…

100% completely different system in the Mark VII (and the Continental of the same era.) And if you've ever driven around Houston, Atlanta, or anywhere in Florida, you've seen hundreds of Panthers and Expeditions/Navigators with blown rear air springs riding on the bump stops. And very few of them have caught fire.

They can and do fail while driving down the road; my Grand Marquis (same exact springs/compressor/solenoids as a Town Car, only the lines are different because the TC is 3" longer) blew its right spring while driving in traffic. No warning, it just let go with a very loud bang. I placed an order for aftermarket…

The springs can rupture while on the road, it happened in my Grand Marquis (which uses the exact same setup as the Town Car.

Ahh yes, the famous Florida Saguaro Cactus...

Because the text on the bottles is in Spanish and they say "Hecho en Mexico?" And there isn't a huge Canadian population clamoring for Canadian Coke, either.

Don't forget that none of the V8s Chrysler had on the table at the time (the SOHC 4.7 was still a couple years off) would even fit under the steeply-sloped hood of the Prowler. The 253hp V6, in a time when most V6s were 200hp slugs, was and still is a wonderful engine. And it even has a nice exhaust note.
There was no…

There is middle ground, and it's been found. The Mini had rolled something like 7 times, and the guys who brought it took a Porta-Power to it and stretched the roof back out enough to get a cage in.

The RX8, the GTO, and the '06 Mini that showed up in Texas a few years ago have received many hundreds of penalty laps. They're not going to win with a 400-lap deficit, and if they drive like assholes they're already under scrutiny so they'll be ejected much more quickly than someone in, say, a 1965 Humber who's…