Looks like it crushed that bus class it was in, in that video.

Chrysler gamed this list by making the same car under two different names. It’s precisely the same thing as For claiming the F-series is ‘the best-selling vehicle.’

I have not driven the current Durango, but Ballaban’s review resonates with me because it’s exactly the same feeling I get when I see the mid-matched crease between the fender and the driver’s door on all early Monte Carlos.

I’m confused by the huge discrepancy between 38,000 tires being supplied for race weekends and 15,000 being used. I assume that means many just didn’t get used. In that case, were those unused tires just transported to the next race? Or did Pirelli ‘recycle’ them each time and make new ones for each race? If the…

This is approximately one mile from my house. Actually, I have seen that 488 in the area.

That’s not actually true. NASCAR race cars are purpose-built tube-frame silhouette cars that share nothing with their ‘stock’ counterparts. They may have to match a curve or two with the stock car, but they share no actual parts.

I have had the honor of being beaten by a guy in a Paseo in competition.

I once had a ‘buyer’ ask me for video of the engine running. Okay, so I sent that, and then came the claim that they were unreachable (because they were an oceanographer at sea, I kid you not) and would be arranging an agent to pick the car up. Uh huh. So I sent this reply:

I let my kids cover my car in finger paint before every track weekend, so I have my own ever-changing art car.

This spring a friend linked me to a dead (bad motor and transmission, I’m told) RX-8 in the same color as mine. I compete in time trials, so it made sense for me to preemptively buy spare doors, lights, glass, etc.

Lots of clubs will happily send folks out on the track together with an ‘optional instructor.’ If they crash, well, they knew the risks, right?

A few years ago when my son was about two, I went through the tiny car-buying purchase as well. Lots of tire-kicking. Lots of reading online.

I could have bought a 996 Turbo several years ago for about $30k from a friend. I turned my nose up at it because it was an auto. Having driven it in anger, I thought that transmission just ruined the car.

Please please please let it tow.

I am pretty damned good at driving stick. I comfortably heel-toe downshift multiple gears while threshold braking on the track. But, as much as I enjoy doing that, I have to admit that some day a double-clutch gearbox will probably make me even faster.

News of this recall hit the internets the day after I put my RX-8 away for the winter and took the insurance off. Go figure.

Express your opinions all you want. I’m an adult so I can handle it.

The Ferrari 288 GTO will always be at the top of my list.

When I spent a weekend driving Ferraris and Lamborghinis a couple years ago, I was struck by the same thing - the stitching on the Ferrari’s dash looked like a kindergartner did it.