Well, there are those Radical engines with the 'Busa heads on a V8 block. They're pretty successful as a spec, even though the engine is sort of cool-but-heavily-flawed by engineering standards. A lot of people like to run these engines.

I think this could be an autocross monster. IF it's been tuned by someone who knows what they're doing and how autocross is different from the Fast & the Furious. If it just has the parts thrown at it, this is far too much money, it will grenade, and it is a crack pipe made out of the family crystal because there…

I once saw a PT cruiser with one of these things glued on to the hood, passing through Davenport on the PCH. Longitudinally, mind you, so it wan't even oriented to where the engine was. But the bug catcher sure looked... stupid...

Is it just me, or are shooting brakes all ugly? Even the ones everyone salivates over are pretty awful looking in person. They look like weird hunchbacked versions of cars that once had nice smooth lines tapering off at the rear end, and they never really make the extra space look like anything more than a pasted-on…

I have one of these without the spoiler or the turbo. Or the slushbox. I love it. '86 1/2. Same color, but my paint's in better shape. Except for the damn rust spot on the hatchback...

This is why the craic was ninety in the Isle of Man.

I drove an NSX when the 3.2L first came out. I think it was '97. I was like 16. I got it up to 142 on an abandoned highway in Nevada. At least that's what the cop said. He also let me go with a warning, and didn't even ask to see a license, which I didn't have.

You know, are 'accomplish' and 'accomplished' the same word, or different words, etc. This is not a difficult concept.

Based on the 17,600 words count mentioned above, there are about 1,700 words in Shakespeare that had never appeared in print before. So it's more like ten percent than half.

Second.

As Jalopnik's resident linguist, the number of words in Shakespeare's vocabulary depends on how you count. So counts of the number of different words he used in his collected works range from around 10,000 to around 40,000.

I used to like going to the gator farm when I was a kid.

Desert rally + skeet shoot. It's a great idea. There's a lot of guys in Libya who just got some practice, and it looks like Syria could field a team too. That'll be a lot of 4x4 Hiluxes. But the IOC might have to ban technicals, just for safety reasons...

I've seen much ghettoer hacks than this one. I give this a 2 1/2 on the ghettometer.

Second.

I also heard that the guy that finished 4th took a nap in the middle of the race because he got sick from eating unripe apples, and another guy, who was the first African to ever compete in the Olympics, missed his shot at winning because he had to run a mile out of the way because he was being chased by a dog. The…

Can-Am. No technical restrictions, batshit crazy innovative cars, nutjob drivers; it had everything.

How come they didn't resurface the flywheel?

Typically rubbernecking gets me annoyed, but I don't keep thinking "people should get out and help." But that line recalled to my memory my sister's story of breaking her timing belt in the Mercury Lynx in the middle lane on the Mass Pike. The car died instantly, and she couldn't get out of the lane. Naturally,…

That would have white B-pillars.