Lighten up and go watch some Mel Brooks movies, my man. 

Am I the only one who finds it hilarious that a Jewish couple wouldn’t pay $27 to have their kid on the flight? There’s a great joke there somewhere.

I may have an unpopular opinion, which is: if you can’t afford to buy a car outright, maybe you shouldn’t buy said car. Borrowing/lending/loans promotes a culture that will borrow money to buy things they can’t really afford, and in the USA especially. The perpetual system of owing money to the bank creates havoc…

An M5 V10 had 12:1 compression and IIRC, 8400rpm. In 2005.

Hardly the same hardware. BMW just doesn’t market all the hundreds of little changes that come from one spec to another like the Americans do. The overall picture is the same, but the puzzle pieces are a bit different.

Lots of my Lebanese American friends do this. They’ve got dealer licences in the States. You buy a salvage car there, export it to Lebanon where labor is single digit $ an hour, repair the car as best you can (usually good enough to drive straight and have no discernable issues for the remainder of its use unless it…

DLS, it must be due to a different environment or fuel. Here in Leb (Middle East), with the 93 oct we have, and with the tiny tracks that aren’t good for airflow due to a low speed, they just heat soak so quickly and fall apart.

Steve, I’m 6"7 and I was tracking my NC Miata last year. I had to do some odd mods to get everything legal and to fit in the car.

A 400hp Golf R is not as cheap as you think it is to build. You need a downpipe, an aggressive tune, and an inlet. And it won’t make that 400 for very long since it’ll get hot and start pulling timing. I can promise you that a Golf R making 400hp reliably and properly will cost more than getting a 370Z up to 400hp.…

Was just thinking about this the other day. Most NA “sporty” engines seem to all gain about 15% when tuned with headers and maybe intakes. Every car I dyno stock, then FBO, gets a very very close number in whp as it was in bhp before the mods. My 540i/C55/350Z all did this. All manuals, all made +/-5whp of the…

Mercedes M113 for me.
Makes as much power as an LS2, is as light (or a tad lighter) than an LS, came on a whole bunch of cars from MB (C, CLK, E, S, ML). Very stout, sounds fantastic, is very reliable. No VVT or cam phasing components to go bad. And in my local market, it’s worth 1/3 of what an LS2 is worth. 

Best of…

Tell that to Subaru and Mitsubishi when they added a turbo to an automatic economy car. :P 

I’m a huge, HUGE fan of manuals. So much so I recently swapped my 2006 C55 AMG to a 6 speed manual. So please don’t think I’m a DCT/SMG/PDK/auto guy. I swore I’d drive a manual car until my knees fall off. I’m on your side. I just don’t agree that a sporty car with an automatic is taking as much from the experience as…

Shame, I guess all the pro drivers and racers who use the new Clio are upset it isn’t a hot hatch. Your statement is quite silly.

I live in Beirut. I’d wait even longer!

Remind me never to get on your bad side. :P

He probably is, to be honest. Batman doesn’t have time for the shits that come with cream/milk in coffee, or indigestion from eating underdone meat or something.

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I owned a car just like this for a couple of years. First, they’re available all over the world (especially Europe and the Middle East) for less than 5k .

I’m not just arguing for the sake of it, but in a high revving package like this a manual is easy/easier to handle than a manual LS3 ‘Vette. No mahoosive torque at low engine speeds means it’ll be easy to handle. I’m honestly all for it.