I pass on double yellow when the conditions are right. You can think I’m an asshole for it and I won’t argue, but I’ve never even come remotely close to killing anyone. I’ve never even had any close calls. If you have good visibility and great acceleration it’s as safe as passing anywhere.

I’d have passed on double yellow there, particularly on a sport bike. Visibility was good, no traffic was coming, and when you can accelerate at the rate of a sport bike you’re around the vehicle and in front of more than fast enough.

That might not be true. The newer, nicer, faster car is going to be a loser as it depreciates. You could get a nicer, faster, older car that is probably going to cost you in maintenance and repairs. At least most upgrades can be uninstalled and resold.

He had a Miata without a manual transmission? Lame.

Mr Burneko, you had me at “scrub ass doofuses.”

I try to get into it every now and then. The problem is that the terrible camera angles combined with awful announcing always turn me off. In the rare event that I get wide camera angles with announcers highlighting the moves being made on the screen.... I do really enjoy it.

Dillon needs to be punched in the face. A racing incident due to a mistake that caused someone to run a mere few feet wide is not worthy of that stunt. Sooner or later he’ll be the one begging for forgiveness when his front end washes out and he puts someone into the wall. Here’s hoping the person taken out has the…

Mr Maffei is trying to make a fan of me.

durrrr.... yessir, I knew that.

Does the CX-7 qualify as a valid alternative to a minivan for people who need more space than a CX-5 but do not hate driving?

yeah but if someone rear-ends you how many years will it take to repair?

This is why I won’t buy a new Volkswagen, or probably even most BMWs anymore. I don’t care if you poke a hole in the firewall and connect a tube to the intake to allow noise to come in, at least that’s still actual mechanical sound. If a speaker or vibration machine or whatever is involved, no thank you.


Put driver…

I don’t know, it seems like he got a bargain here. Less than $15k for an iconic car from the golden era of Japanese performance vehicles and he can rest assured that everything on it is in great working order.

Yeah but the Supra was kind of an oddball in the sense that everything about it screamed “GT”, but most people I’ve known who’ve owned one were pretty passionately against that label and considered it a full on sports car. It certainly had the performance to back that claim.

Absolutely, and in my mind a very clean and well kept Prelude SH reaches the level of desirability as these cars. I’m sure some would roll their eyes at that statement, but for me it’s not about performance alone with these cars, even if that’s a factor. It’s more about the experience of owning and driving them, and…

Thanks for the amazing article, very good read. It makes me happy to see one of these preserved in “near OEM” condition, but still meant to be driven.

Yeah, I was bored and building my dream ~250 HP naturally aspirated ITB equipped B18C1 to drop in a Civic hatch after watching those videos of that insane Australian guy dive bombing people at Bathhurst yesterday. Prices on parts seem as cheap as ever.

Why does it cost $7000 to pick up a measly 81 horsepower?

I get it, makes sense.  Then bring back the OV-10 or acquire a new platform around the requirements that the OV-10 satisfied, to include multiple engines for enhanced survivability.

Yeah, ask the Navy how their F-18 fleet is holding up for a current example of how this goes.