This is a return to the kind of racing I’ve always enjoyed the most. Actual (slightly modified) showroom cars demonstrating tangible benefits and technological improvement to normal road drivers.

How does one tune an ECU? There are a ton of mods--and some work-arounds--that can only be done with an ECU tune, and I have no clue how do.

I’m in a similar boat. The previous owner of my NB had to replace the pre-catalyzer with a Racing Beat downpipe, which has no room for an O2 sensor. So it’s still in the engine bay, just swinging around. Thus, check engine light.

I used to think the Hummer H2 was awesome.

I used to work in automotive coatings, and matte paint was a pain to deal with. You couldn't sand chips, because that would remove the matte effect, and at least when I was at my firm, there was a lot of effort going into making it durable enough to survive circulating within a plant's paint system piping without…

I’m down with old GG--yeah, you know me!

My neighbor sins along with you. He’s had a turquoise green 1955 Thunderbird in his garage ever since I was a kid; my soul weeps every time I see the boxes stacked on top of it.

Whoah, Nelly! This bit’s off to a swift canter

I’m glad your trip is going well. I’m also glad my mother’s dream wasn’t misplaced.

Fiesta ST

So the skid plates are ribbed for our pleasure?

With an all matte-black trim covered in chrome skulls, and the startup sound of, “This is who I really am, DAD!”

I killed my first car by changing the spark plugs. The 02 Chevy Malibu’s V6 was right up to the rear wall of the engine bay, and transverse, meaning half the plugs were hidden from sight.

Seeing a testing mule/development vehicle in the wild is a mixed bag. On the one hand, I saw new Opel wagons when I lives in Royal Oak. But parked next to Northwestern University's Ford Center building one day, I found a Focus RS development mule--camo tape, weird sensors and body cut-outs, etc.

I’m loving the Akira jacket

Cars I’d buy:

I for one would love more auto journalist & exec tweets about anime

You had me at the Lancia.

That sounds straight from my mother’s cookbook. In a Polish household, when in doubt, add butter.