That they both did their personal bests is fairly meaningless—their cars are getting progressively lighter on fuel and both were on fresh tires. Plus, I don't believe for a second that Webber would've exited the pits with his engine turned down—the deal, according to all sides, was that whatever position they were in…

I'd rather see them race, too—no team orders for either driver (which means that Webber wouldn't have turned his engine down and would've had a real shot at keeping Vettel behind him). But I disagree with you that Webber was holding Vettel up at any point in the race. When he complained that Webber was "too slow,"…

Sounds damned close to what RBR did yesterday, bringing Vettel in for his last set of tires before Webber and then putting Webber on the hards.

Yes, the team compromised Vettel's race by calling him in too early and that allowed Webber to leapfrog him by the time he came in for slicks. But so what? Vettel couldn't pass Webber from that point until Webber turned down his engine on the team's orders. So Vettel wasn't the faster car in a straight fight on a…

Agreed that team orders are bullshit, but they have long been a part of motor racing whether they were ostensibly prohibited or not. For what it's worth, Webber had Vettel covered yesterday once RBR gambled on the early change to slicks for Vettel. Vettel complained that Webber was too slow and radioed to the pit…

Did you listen to the interviews afterward or did you turn off the TV after the race? Webber and Vettel were told to switch to a less aggressive engine map in order to conserve tires and fuel and to hold position through the end of the race since they had built a sufficient gap to Hamilton and Rosberg. Webber turned…

Webber had, per his engineer's direction, "turned down" the engine mapping to conserve fuel and tires. I'm sure he was doing the best he could to hold off Vettel once he realized Vettel wasn't going to obey the team order, but he would've been down on power relative to Vettel at that point. Sure, turning the mapping…

I don't know about coolest, but these are the funniest.

They're called "Arrakis" wheels and they were available on the S80 (there's no such thing as a '99 850 and the Arrakis never came on the 850, but pretty much all of the FWD/AWD Volvo wheels fit any of the FWD/AWD cars).

This is the first car that I thought of when I saw this question.

Yes! Spread the word—240 wagons are super uncool and if you have one, you should sell it immediately.

So the cop was also "baited" into leaving the scene of an accident causing property damage?

I agree with some of what you say, but your statement that "the cop is clearly overtaking the guy in the right lane" is clearly false. What the cop is clearly doing is clearly not overtaking the guy in the right lane, but rather he is clearly driving at exactly the same speed as the guy in the right lane. There is…

And some are just power-tripping assholes.

Yeah, the guy shouldn't have been filming while he was driving, but you're trying to defend the indefensible—the cop cut in front of the guy, leaving virtually no gap and then promptly brake-checked him. Where, exactly, was the driver of the truck supposed to go? Or maybe you're one of those people who believes that…

The Ferrari 328's dogleg first gear, in combination with the odd steering wheel position. My first (and to date, only) opportunity to drive a son-of-Magnum Ferrari ended, essentially, before it began after I realized that the shifter and my right leg were trying to occupy the same real estate southeast of the…

That's a pretty powerful Toyota Avalon.

Yes it is, though calling it "semi-auto" seems inadequate in light of all the hydraulic wizardry going on, especially when other manufacturers' semi-auto 'boxes "cheated" by using torque converters, mechanical shift linkages, shifter-mounted microswitches, vacuum-operated clutch servos, or some combination of the…

Uses high-pressure hydraulics to engage the clutch when driving away from a stop, disengage and engage the clutch when shifting, and disengage the clutch when coming to a stop. Oh yeah, and it also uses the hydraulics in place of a mechanical shift linkage, so the driver shifts gears by gently moving a column-mounted…

Thanks, man—there are only two cars that I wanted when I was six years old that I still want now—a DS or a '67-'69 911. The 911 would certainly be the stereotypical mid-life crisis car, but the early 911 market is pretty brain-damaged, so the DS it was. I didn't really think it would make the list and I have to say…