If you want to see cool cars being driven hard on the track, NASA has a program that lets you work events in exchange for track time. At least, we do in NASA Great Lakes. I can’t speak for other regions.

Does GM hold a trademark or copyright on the building’s image, though? It may have been a matter of being...cheap and not paying a license fee to a rival for their floor mats.

Oh I know. My son bawled when I sold my SVX. I also remember I lost it as a kid when my mom sold our Ford Fairmont station wagon.

This guy made a big error in judgment by driving like this on public roads, no doubt about it. But I’m not going to chastise him for doing so, because I did the same thing. When I was 17 I rolled my truck, with my brother as a passenger, in a ‘hey watch this’ moment. I continued to do inadvisable things on public…

Oh I totally agree. It was not only better than the last season (with Evans), but it was better than the last couple seasons with CHM, and definitely better than The Grand Tour. I love those three, but I kind of expect them to just ride their contracts out without really putting in a ton of effort.

My mom had two Cougars. One of this vintage and then the one generation that followed it. I’m pretty sure as kids we spilled Elmer’s glue all over the velour back seats of the earlier one.

This is what my mind brings up every time I see this thing:

Subaru SVX.

Yeah, I seriously considered a new Frontier last year. All I need is something to tow a car. I don’t care how ‘nice’ it is.

Goddammit, Internet.

I’m going to make two nominations:

Neutral:

I have to say, I’m not real sympathetic towards these owners. Every car has a weakest link. Fix the transmission cooling issue, and you’ll drive the car longer and harder and find something else that won’t take the abuse. That’s how this goes.

If it’s available from Mazda Motorsports, then you can have one. Mazda supports racers of all levels, and all you have to do is sign up with them.

This is a pretty common warning in manuals for Japanese cars. My SVX had the same thing, and I would expect so does my RX8.

When my wife and I first married, her dad gifted her with his 1993 Ford Explorer. It was a very nice gesture, but what a nightmare that thing was.

Small displacement, stratospheric redline and short service life.

I love Subaru, and I have ever since I bought my first one in 1999 - my SVX. Since then I’ve owned six more. They’re fabulous cars.

We’re pretty good at making simple switches these days.

Of course Americans don’t like interlocks. You’re talking about people who demand to be allowed to ride motorcycles without helmets and sell guns to the mentally ill.