I see your point, however surely there are better places for the manual gearbox than a pickup truck with the dynamic properties of a recently skinned walrus?

Surely the reason that a manual truck is unobtanium is because it's not actually a necessity?

Perhaps I am misunderstanding the context. However fitting a manual transmission, which apparently is the hallmark of the joy of driving, to something that handles like a freshly killed cow seems to be somewhat misguided.

Any takers?

I am having acute respiratory difficulties. Fiat calling a car Ottimo (Italian for excellent) is making me laugh so much I am having serious trouble breathing. It's like Harley-Davidson launching a motorcycle called Handling.

Stance is just so awful. CP.

Nigel Stepney.

The irony of Block killing everything on the car except the tyres is quite something.

270 front wheel bhp? Sounds like a recipe for disaster. Plus the car's backwards. Sportscars need long noses and short rears, not the other way around.

It's so fashionable to gang up on Top Gear USA. Why? It's light reading with pretty cars and the occasional funny. It's no worse than Top Gear UK and I actually find it better in certain aspects.

Waste of a good seat.

No amount of ganja will ever get me to the point of allowing Quentin Willson into a car with me. I would rather feast on my freshly severed penis than share an automobile with that bottom feeder.

Jaguar really have been getting their designs right of late. Now if only Americans could learn to pronounce the word Jaguar properly...

So all of a sudden the Nurburgring is dangerous? All of a sudden these lap times are meaningless? What utter and complete drivel. These hypercars are all about how fast they can go. I agree that Ring times count for jack in real life, but for McLaren to make all this noise about not realeasing a time smacks of…

Alfa Romeo's Arese plant. This entry is mostly an excuse to post a picture of a 33 Stradale.

People are still buying the Karma because it's achingly gorgeous and because a certain former GM exec has proved that it can be propelled by pushrods, petrol and fury.

Any airport in Italy. The so-called internationals in Rome and Milan are both hateful, departure areas are worse than most third world countries and on the arrivals side you can die of old age before your luggage appears. Smaller airports are no better, Florence for example has a runway which at one end is bordered by…

I'll just leave this link here... VW T5 Transporters with Porsche Engines...

Today’s 1993 BMW 850Ci is about that rare as its V12 is mated to a 6-speed stick. The E31 Bimmer was in fact the first production car ever to do that- mating twelve cylinders with half that number of cogs in its gearbox.

It's drifting. Meh.