The Mercedes logo is supposed to be an arrow viewed endwise, hence the term “Silver Arrows”.

^ This. If low miles is the thing that makes it special, then driving it is the worst thing you could do for it. And given that... who wants it? A museum or some collector would appreciate it in another 10-15 years, and in another 30 years when kids who graduated around 2005 hit their mid-life crisis, and it will…

From what I’ve heard from the employees at Romano, I don’t believe this was his car.

Be careful with your labeling of NY regions - we’re very sensitive to it. My first thought was... Southern Tier? But Mr. Wilzig lives way east of the southern tier, lol. Generally the “Southern Tier” is the flat part of the NY/PA border, ranging from the east side of Binghamton to somewhere west of Elmira (at which…

Isn’t it common knowledge that airlines could vastly improve plane loading times by using more efficient methods of loading passengers onto the plane (i.e, something more efficient than “zones”)? The reason they keep things the way they are is that loading the passengers onto the plane isn’t the primary determining…

I’m thinking this would have very different effects on a gasoline engine. Allowing some fresh oxygen into the exhaust header, which likely contains lots of heat and some unburnt fuel, could lead to autoignition of that fuel+air. This will no doubt go a long way towards reducing lag (it’s how proper “antilag” works…

It does depend on the IRS, but most passenger car IRS setups are definitely inferior to a solid axle when it comes to maintaining 0* camber in the rear, and optimum anti-squat - both of which are optimum geometry for drag racing. Not to mention solid axles generally being stronger.

A true equal length double a-arm…

As far as the race gas comment - when most people talk about race gas, they’re just talking about 100+ octane leaded gas - in which case the article is completely right.

My only concern with such a system would be if it encouraged pilots to take undue risks (i.e., would the pilot in the video have been better served to have just never tried the landing to begin with).

Top speed just overheats them though, it should have minimal effect on tread life. Once you slow and they cool, you're good to go again.

This isn’t a surprise at all. The European 500 Abarth also makes less power, similar in spec to the US “Turbo” model. The Europeans can get the added power by buying the optional, dealer installed, “esse esse” package.

This would be real fun with a tune. Abarths have seen 200whp with nothing more than an intake, exhaust and a tune.

$27k/tire, or whatever the real cost is, is above and beyond what it costs to keep such an operation running. Keep in mind that F1 tires cost ~$3000/set. Now granted F1 tires are downright “mass produced” compared to Veyron tires, but they’re still likely made from the same “low volume” processes.

For that matter, 747…

2500 miles likely takes the average Bugatti several years to acquire. These aren’t cars that are daily driven - or even driven on a weekly basis.

I’m sure there’s also an element of “because they can” built in there. They could charge $50k/tire, and Veyron owners would pay it - what other option do they have? The only competition would be to have a machinist make you a set of wheels to fit standard tires - but I suspect veyron owners have no problem paying for…

Do you have a first gen Neon? Is it blue? Does it still have all it’s paint? If so - it’s been repainted. Every one of the blue paint jobs did this:

Acura NSX. Everything I’ve ever read about it raved on how good it handled. Drove one at an autocross and it was horrible. The rear was unstable at corner entry, but it pushed like mad mid-corner and at the exit (until the revs got high enough to get enough power to push the rear out a bit). Speaking of which, it had…

I had an “Eddie Bauer edition” Ford Excursion. It was basically just a “Limited” model (which was the top-level package), but with a two-tone exterior and interior. Mine was a darker red + tan combination, and while a fairly dated look, was actually quite nice.

I suspect it’s either due to a stipulation in the rules (having a raised center section will be safer, since it’s less likely to stall the underfloor aero) - or it’s done for performance, comprimising high front downforce (with the sides) and high rear downforce (with the center feeding the diffuser)

I suspect that with rental cars they probably just had a few different “universal” seats for you to try out? If so, having a custom fitted seat would make a HUGE difference. If you’re having to hold yourself in at all, it will wear you out very quickly, and make it much, much harder to do accurate inputs under high…