I’ve been waiting for a post like this all my life (kinda)!

Jason, I almost wanna take back all the bad things I’ve said about you!

At least they didnt call it duck tape.

This. Tiff can fucking drive. I grew up watching him on TG and FG, read his biography and have met him once(really nice guy!). Hopefully he lands somewhere we can still watch him as a presenter and driver.

A lot of people think there was some driving skill on Clarkson’s Top Gear, but that was always peanuts next to Tiff. He’s fucking legit - he’s Stig kind of good. In fact, after Ben Collins got the arse, he got pulled in as their “Emergency Stig”.

Cut Chris Evans.
Paste Tiff Needell.

I do hope Fifth Gear comes back, they did do quite a bit of stuff that was more grounded in reality. And I will miss Tiff’s insane driving.

I kind of wish they’d rehired Tiff back to Top Gear. I always liked him. That stage is pretty crowded nowadays, though.

I did one not long ago on leasing used. It is difficult to do and programs are just slowly starting to catch on. More often than not, you are better off with a new car lease once the numbers are run. But Lexus seems to offer some really good CPO lease programs.

True you got to run the math, but often GAP insurance can be bought by your insurance carrier for much cheaper than the dealership.

Definitely been guilty of this... Shiny! Blue! Manual! Need it!

FORTY FUCKING GRAND.

As my LeMons roll cage states.....

It is doable, but it all depends on how cheaply you can get the car initially, and how many parts you can sell. Guys at B Is For Build recently did this for the Oregon 500/500 (500 miles, $500 car) and documented the whole thing in the most consumable way possible: $500 BMW E46 build

“There’s no such thing as too much hp”

How long until they flop their, um, hands on the table and measure them?

All TG did was rip open issues that had been brewing for years. CART was facing the exact same issues IndyCar is facing now with ballooning budgets, a dearth of American drivers, loss of ovals, no new OEMs, and shrinking fields. And the teams in charge were too stuck up and stubborn to negotiate (just as they are now)…

That’s what happens when you turn The Greatest Spectacle In Racing into a spec race.

I have a full run down of what happened in Nevada against the Viper. Mostly because I was in the jet that flew against it. http://oppositelock.kinja.com/ive-made-it-in… I replied with this last time, but I’m stuck in the deep grays.