Maybe the car developed a leak in the power steering hydraulics. So what? Loss of steering assist ≠ loss of steering control. I wouldn't expect TMZ to understand the difference, but it's kind of disappointing that Jalopnik would republish this drivel without any informed analysis.

Like a folding hardtop? No, they shouldn't have.

How hot was it in Austin that weekend? I wore the same mask this past summer while observing the feds and local cops digging for Hoffa near my house and I almost fainted because it got so damned hot under the mask. I can't imagine wearing it for two or three hours straight unless it was cool outside.

The most offensive thing about any of this is calling the DMC-12 "one of the most beautiful cars of all time." There's a gee-whiz factor to the gullwing doors and the stainless body, but a "beautiful" car? Give me a break.

Sadly, no.

When I was about 20, the radio was stolen from my Toyota pickup, which was also the vehicle I used to deliver pizzas. Delivering pizzas with no tunes sucks, but I had other financial priorities, so buying a replacement stereo had to take a back seat for a while. I made do by playing harmonica while I drove around…

How and why is this "racetrack-style" lighting? Are racetracks lit by hundreds of red LEDs? Do most racecars have taillights? Is there a racetrack somewhere that resembles the shape of these taillights?

While wearing a raincoat.

I assume this junket is in Texas. Ask him the only truly important question: does he prefer his chili with or without beans?

Help me out here, how does this fit with the Jalopnik manifesto?

I read this article for the express purpose of seeing where RA placed. I am stunned that it did not. I have been to other tracks that are more technically challenging, but never to a track that is prettier. And the track food... I'm still recovering from the gastronomic overload that was the Runoffs, but man it was…

To be totally accurate, I doubt Jay Mieses hired anybody.

If the NYPD starts staffing every gas station, I see no problem with this so-called "creative solution." Otherwise, it's the biggest bunch of crap I've heard all day (and I've heard a LOT of crap today)

That gas can looks pretty, er, "excited"

What a jackass—he's complaining that the response time was delayed by the 911 operator's momentary (maybe a half-second) chuckle? Wrong. If anything, it was delayed by him arguing with the operator over whether she was laughing at him rather than moving on and giving her the pertinent information.

I don't know—it sounded to me like he shouted, "COCK!"

I must've missed seeing the side of it, but that would be the view that would let us know definitively what it is.

I noticed this, too—but based on the shot of the back-end of the course car as the last cars were pulling into their slots on the grid, I had figured it to be a 355. Hard to tell with the long-lens shot, heat radiating off the pavement, etc., but it's definitely one of the two.

This car has been for sale for a loooooooong time. Probably because the price is too high for what it is (i.e., different but not particularly spectacular in comparison to its lower-priced Honda/Acura cousins) and possibly because it might not be easy to re-title that thing outside of Minnesota.