If it was merely a question of what amounts to buying a brand-new 1st-gen Miata for $9K, I think we'd all agree that this is the biggest no-brainer NP the commentariat has ever seen. Who would care about putting miles on it? It wouldn't be bought as a collectible, but rather as a new old car for about 53% of its…

Okay, so the funny thing is that I just saw my first GT in person about a week and a half ago, red and white, just as pictured above. And after I saw it, it struck me as really, really weird that I'd never seen one until now. Working in Detroit and living in the metro area, I see all kinds of cool stuff with…

DRS and KERS are "super crappy": they've turned driving an F1 car into the equivalent of playing a video game. DRS is particularly offensive, as it makes the leading car, which cannot use DRS, a sitting duck for the car behind. An overtake is now accomplished by pressing what is essentially the "boost button" and…

Comparing "top gear" 30-50 and 50-70 acceleration times between cars with manuals and cars with automatics. I could never understand why the car mags did this. The rationale behind the test was supposedly "engine flexibility" (really tractability), but with automatics downshifting a gear or two (or three), the…

That's feasible—maybe—for the first purchaser, but what about when the car gets resold? If a one- or-two-year-old grey-market car looks like a USDM car and is purchased by an unsuspecting second owner who doesn't realize he's not getting parts support, warranty, etc. . . .

This has absolutely zero to do with making "hippies feel warm and fuzzy inside" and everything to do with NHTSA regs. Some of them make sense, some do not. Obviously, the 25-year rule does not make objective sense in virtually any application. For instance, why would it be okay to import a 1988 Defender but not a…

Oh, I know. But now that the story is starting to get picked up by the F1 media (albeit all citing the same source), it's got me scratching my head as to how this story is being given any real credence. I mean, it could be true, I guess, but it wouldn't make much sense.

Yeah, but Lotus already accommodates his dislike of PR commitments—more than Ferrari would, I'll bet. Kimi and Alonso are neck-and-neck in the driver's championship; Ferrari and Lotus are within spitting distance in the constructor's. If anything, Lotus's form seems to be improving as the season wears on, while…

1) It's "Finn," not "Fin."

Hmmm, let's see:

Possibly the worst thing about this ad is that he (or his angry wife) apparently considers a Toyota Corolla wagon to be one of his "toys."

Have I missed something? Are we back in the good old days when $1 CDN was like $0.30 USD? (I kid, but growing up near the Canadian border, it *was* nice when the exchange rate was more favorable!)

Still sticking to your guns, eh? I get friction, pumping losses, etc. What I don't get is how, say, a 2.0-liter turbocharged V-10 would "absolutely consume more fuel" than, say, a 4.0-liter V-6.

So not in all cases, then.

" Turbo or no turbo, a V10 in all cases will absolutely consume more fuel than a V6 would, so just attaching a turbocharger to one won't help us produce the same amount of power with less fuel."

This. I used to race an ITA RX-7, and after an engine swap, the ignition timing was slightly off and I could not believe how quickly the header (a decently thick-walled RB header, at that) started glowing. I mean, even with the timing set correctly, exhaust temps were much higher than you'd normally see out of any…

Really, it should've been this:

I texted him to meet me at the vacant lot at the corner of Beech and Sargeant at 11:30 tonight and to come alone.

This is ooooooold news; buy here/pay heres have been installing these devices for many years and there have been lawsuits over them for nearly as long.

As a guy with 3 RWD Volvos (a 5-speed 240, a 4-spd+OD 740 Turbo wagon, and a 5-speed-swapped 760 Turbo wagon), I'm going to have to go with the Alfa. I love my Volvos, but a 740 sedan has to be about the least desirable Volvo from the '80s or early '90s. The wagons are waaaaay better looking and have far more…