I've heard several versions of this, but yours rings true.  I think I'd tend to agree with you ... that said, he hardly picked an obscure track for the $100,000 challenge.

Williams has been pushing that design since the Montoya days, but the idea is to minimize the boundary layer at the leading edge of the wing - my guess would be that they're trying to reduce the drag penalty of a boundary layer across the wing at high speeds of whatever downforce they're seeing at low speeds.  F1 is…

Nobody wants to hear your LOGICS!  GULLWING UBER ALLES!!

OH man - that Chrysler was terribad!  The Subaru and GM wheels fitted to later cars was much better.

The worst?  My take on this is a bit different than most, because I remember the Suzuki Swift GT and I've ridden more than my share of GSX-Rs.  The most heinous, evil version of cost-cutting was Suzuki opting to sell Daewoos in the US market instead of its overseas Swift ... that, or the choice of some monstrous,…

No no no - Mosler upped the ante with a $100,000 challenge and the Ferrari F40 that showed up got beat.  C/D's test was not done under the "bet conditions" of Mosler picking the track and inspecting the car.  Given GM's tendency to deliver ringer cars and the ragged condition of their GTP, it's not much of a wonder it…

I think it's just DARLING! The real question, though, is this:  Did Mercedes fix what is, objectively, the worst transmission in the industry?

A clean, early 90s Bentley ...

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The car weighs twice as much, and the tires is half as wide!

Yes x 1000.

The "banjo" steering wheel in the early post-war Chevy Fleetmasters.

i LOVE THIS.

May 4th, Jalops! BAM ... makin' the registry now.

I thought we were calling her a stripper? Are we not doing that any more?

Hard to be pretentious when you're dead ... more than likely they want to slap his name on as much product as they can and "cash out" before people realize he has nothing to do with anything anymore.

Every answer should be TRUNK MONKEY!!

*Frieman. Dammit!

This is awesome. FRIEDMAN 2016!

Most people don't know the first 500-700 (ish) Ferrari 308 GTBs were a fiberglass-bodied cars from the factory. I've been at more than one car show and overheard someone call an authentic 308 a "kit car" because of this.