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I always got a kick out of Clarkson’s review of the Touareg V10, when he 2-pointed it, got out of it, talked, got back in and drove off like it was nothing.

It’s gotta be Project Orion...

D2 S8 is a timing belt

Good thing it’s all aluminum, then.

Jesus wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer!

Just throwing this out there....

The worst thing about the Cavalier interior was all the parts binning GM did from that interior into other cars.

Sinsitered (powdered metal) titanium manufacturing... awesome.

I'd pay extra for that car, just because the owner hasn't taken it upon themselves to throw some tacky V12 badges on the grill/fenders/trunklid

Realistically, this list could be nothing but E36 M3's on ebay that haven't been turned into stancemobiles.

The opposite; clearing the stalks off the column made it easier to put larger paddles on. The only things you want on the track (since this was designed for racing first and a street car second) within reach of your fingers are the bare essentials; sucks having control stalks in your way, or having to reach for the

OPEC is going to absolutely rape us once they've killed domestic shale oil (and to a lesser extent, the stripper wells mentioned here) from their market flooding.

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Impressive, but it helps not having the weight of a few hundred passengers on board :-p
Nothing beats the F-15 for full on vertical horsepower, though

The fact that Doug didn't already know about Audi's bad run of timing tensioner guides (that affected all V* timing chain engine models from the mid 2000's) until now shows that he's an armchair "enthusiast". I'm tempted to buy a V8 S4 (something that I've always avoided simply because it made mediocre power and gets

Ugh, DP's are so ugly

They're Harbor Freight torque wrenches with a polish and paint job.

Jack Northrop's YB-49 flying wing, could have been awesome but development problems combined with possible industrial espionage/sabotage and cronyism that favored the Convair Peacemaker doomed it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_…

Civilian version so I can commute to work with one, please.

RS6, either C5 or C6 generation. Nothing says front heavy like a V8 or V10 with twin turbos, intercooler, cooling, and all associated plumbing hanging over the front axle.