Same here. This guy is fascinating and I love his opinion pieces he writes (even if I don’t always agree with him). His love for cars and engineering is what I like to see in my executive types.

My wife said it sounded feminine when we were picking names.

If they are into racing, there are a lot of good names to pick from. Stirling, Kimi, Nico, Bruce, Sebastian (our third choice for boy’s names), Michael, etc.

My wife and I (she actually suggested it first!) named our boys Ayrton and Jenson. We used one of our grandparents names for their middle names.

I thought about naming one of my boys Carroll after him, but it is too much of a girl’s name (no matter the bad ass it is attached to). Same with Nico or Kimi (at least in America).

I love the technology of the i3 and I hear it drives great. However, I don't like the styling at all. I know they were going for something different with it and that is supposed to resonate with the intended buyer, but I just want a 2 or 3 series styled vehicle with all that cool tech.

I don’t know, I kind of appreciate Bernie’s verbal diarrhea. Just insane. It helps focus everyone on hating him and unites us against a common enemy.

Current M3 is dual exhaust, just has quad tips and some wizardry in the rear muffler. However, I do agree with your point, a dual exhaust does not mean there will not be a straight six.

It was very loud (I just left from there). Thought a rocket was being launched, but nothing was scheduled. Walked outside and that big plume of black smoke was there. There were multiple explosions.

Autocross! (Sorry, I don’t have any pic of it.)

This is what I was thinking. The accident for the guy in the Tesla wouldn’t have happened if he had been paying attention to driving and not Harry Potter.

It is a lot of fun. Sucks you still have to do corner station work, but it is much easier since there aren’t many cones.

The last couple of CFR SCCA events have been run on the concrete pad in the paddock and not on track. There is one at PBIR from one of the other groups that is run on their go-kart track, I think. I am not sure what the other groups do outside of CFR.

The rest of ours are like that. Two of the other locations are just on air strips that limit the course to an up and back through some slaloms. Personally, I really look forward to the “on-track” ones.

That’s how they run them at the FIRM in Starke, FL. We also do them on the go kart track on the infield at Daytona.

Those being worse does not make the Z3's visibility good though. Maybe if I was shorter, it wouldn’t be so bad. And the slit like windows on new cars really sucks, but I did not think the Mustang was as bad.

This, 100% this. Also, the visibility out of convertible roadsters with the top up is horrible. I hate driving my Z3 (pretty much a fat miata and my weird track car) with the top up only because the visibility sucks.

I always thought the front looked a little funny. I thought the Destino VLF that Lutz was pitching solved a lot of that. I am disappointed it never reached production.

I always got a kick out of parking my E36 M3 sedan next to my friend’s 128i. From head on, they were really close in size.

He’s already been promised a chance to drive one of Haas’s stock cars (not necessarily a full cup one or in a full race). As soon as I heard them talking about that in the interview, all I could think of was Talladega Nights.

Well said.