When I worked in service at BMW we had a customer with an alchohol injected, supercharged E46 M3. It was the fastest and hardest to drive vehicle I've ever been in, until the engine blew up while we were test driving for a rattle noise under load.

@Yosemite Spieg: Oh my goodness, that was funny. Made my day.

"To be accused of a sex crime in Sweden is considered very serious."

i feel like this article could have been a character's monologue in one of William Gibson's books.

"You could be the best driver in the world". Sounds like this guy is taking ownership for his mistake...

Oh thank goodness. When I read "this year's Avatar" I initially thought the author meant The Last Airbender and was extreeeeeemly dissapointed.

@The Lab: Exactly. It's just like OJ Simpson, everyone just assumed he did it but then he was found innocent...

Due process folks. Assange has been accused of rape (or some Swedish watered down interpretation of rape). He hasn't been convicted, doesn't look like he's even been tried.

@acjwatt: I did, and you what came up?

@canadianlemming: Oooooooohhh ok I thought it had something to do with the Incredibles.

Dumb question: WTF is the Kronos effect?

When I was around six years old I found a box of old science fiction pulp magazines (Galaxy, If) that my father had left in the attic. I tore through them all and have loved science ever since. One thing that pervaded the books (which were written from the early 60's to the mid 70's) was a fear of nuclear holocaust,…

@HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.: So how many people have died in the last 10 years from terrorist attacks on planes, exactly?

@burglar: You know those cars always seem to get a lot of grief, but it was so exciting when they were coming out. The rotary is back! It's a rennaissance! And while the rotary revolution (puns!) never really came to be, I'm always jazzed to see the RX8 on the street and loved it when I've had the chance to drive one.

@Jackie: AMEN. What other go-kart handling affordable rear wheel cars can you get that aren't crazy to work on (mr2) or almost definitely hooned (240sx)?

I work right near where this happened and let me tell you, the driver's had to be incredible assholes to drive like that where they were. It's a residential area, if they had lost control they would have ended up in someone's house.

I have to drive manual Cummings Rams all day at work, not that fun. The clutch pedal is so stiff I'm worried I'm going to get ejected out the window by my left leg.

@Hedgeworth: I gotta say, I wish I didn't know. That's awlays going to be there now when I read the books, looking for comparisons to his father, stuff like that. It's like when you see an actor playing a character in a book you're reading, now the written character is always going to look like them.

Nobody died? Ok, then I don't feel bad about this...

@rev02: I thought I was safe, all the images in other articles I've read about this were really indistinct. I was always wondering why they used the guy smuggling scrambled eggs in his underwear as the example.