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Yeah, think of those poor resorts that are losing out to people being able to do with their property what they please. It’s almost as bad as Uber allowing you to use your car to give rides to people in exchange for money.

the best defense and aircraft reporting in the business from Tyler and Collin

Too many hanging chads.

I KNOW! Jalopnik needs MOAR COCAINE!

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No Kavinski Testarossa? Wut? Posting it now because it’s that good and can’t be seen too many times.

Tavarish has gotten alot better about the disclaimers and making it clear that if you’re going to have to stretch to take the bad advice (and it probably is bad advice), it’s definitely a bad idea. There were also a few really bad ideas in the past that were not very well thought out. For example, there was a recently

I blame The Doug. I’ve personally seen at least two people who bought a 360 after reading a bunch of Doug’s articles convinced that they could pull it off. It didn’t take long for them to realize just how in over their heads they were. I can’t help but wonder how much of the brice drop is because of this.

Saab story.

Stef, is it true that the Nissan team asked to borrow your rental for the race since it will probably be faster and more reliable?

...or people get sick of their representatives not representing their interest and vote for better ones?

...so it’s a way to ruin the road?

No, but one should also never let the lack of a formal education get in their way.

I know, right? I was thinking the same thing and then my racecar engine blew up.

This is getting dangerous... They’re cheap. It also looks like parts interchangeability is pretty high with the rest of the K family, so parts should be easy and cheap to come by. 1.8 bottom and 2.5 heads? That could be fun. Might be possible. Parts are all over ebay for stupid cheap.

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Do it proper with a K8! Lighten the internals, put cams in it, tune it to rev to a billion. It sounds great even in production form!

I’m a film believer that Soichiro Honda was the greatest engine builder of all time. To sweeten the story even more, he was essentially a high school dropout.

...and each gear is tiiiiiiiny.

Small displacement plus many cylinders is a recipe for some of the most amazing sounds ever heard in racing cars.