996 Turbo. 997 models have been going slowly up over the last few years, so the under-valued, non-IMS-cursed 996 Turbo is going to take the ‘budget 911' place in the market. Especially after speculation that the 911 will be going hybrid/electric.

Same. Spent five minutes just staring at the title image; so much HNNNG.

Wait, WRC is going to be at COTA?! Now I have even more reason to visit family down in San Antonio

To be honest, I would love to one day have the money for a manual CTS-V wagon, or even an ATS-V. My parents owned a Cadillac when I was a kid, an early 90s Coupe de Ville. Hell, one of my friends works for Cadillac as a designer.

If the seats are as comfy as the Continental’s, they’ll have a winner

Personally, not the way I’d park a cark, but hey, whatever floats your boat...I mean, Civic

Saw a few brief former twinkles at the GM Heritage Center:

Did anyone else read the title to the tune of “Deep in the Heart of Texas”?

That metallic orange nose on the BMW...HNNG.

...please tell me there is someone on one of those race teams named Shinji. Because there is no way the pit boss would ever resist being able to say, “Get in the race car, Shinji.”

All this is just another reminder for me to weep over the lack of new FiST in the States

The vast majority of my parents’ cars have been Japanese. My parents bought a Honda Odyssey in the summer of 2000, when I was 8, and approx. 250k miles later, it’s still going strong. It’s seen summer trips around Lake Michigan & Lake Superior (literally—we once drove from Illinois to Michigan and back via Wisconsin),…

Reminds me of the creature who regularly prowls the campsite where our zuchy (Polish Boy Scouts equivalent of Cub Scouts, pronounced ‘zoo-h-y’, that last y prounounced as in myth) go to the in the summer: the Viper Deer.

I am in awe. I’m going HNG at every photo.

Racing a brown diesel wagon

Not her fault Texas isn’t selling the North’s glorious gift to mankind

I visited a GM plant a while back, and I think that feud kind of continues: there were posted signs that said non-American brands had to park in the further parking lots

Good luck, David and Andrew! I’m sorry I didn’t have the mechanical expertise to help you out in Michigan, but by this time next year, my goal is to have the knowledge necessary to help you wrench

Yup yup.

Dammit! I have family in San Antonio, but our travel plans fell through.