It was a barely modified road car. It was sponsored by a penis clinic. It won. For me this wins (until the moment when Porsche/NISMO or whoever dethrones the diesel heathens).

Whilst I applaud the concept, my standard MGB is already wayward enough with 90bhp. There’s no amount of chassis work that’s going to make it anything less than a deathtrap with triple that amount.

We call him ‘sweater’ in Italy. It’s his uniform.

Oh how the tables have turned. It wasn’t long ago that Sergio was being hailed as the saviour of the global automotive industry who could do no wrong.

#blessed

It must be nice up there in your ivory tower.

#blessed

A manual gearbox would need a hell of a meaty clutch to withstand that level of power and torque. I would say a clutch so meaty that it would take Herculean strength to push the pedal. That’s going to make the driving experience worse. The clutch on my 550 Maranello is borderline unusable and this thing has the best…

Yada yada yada, whatever they said on Top Gear that one time, yada yada yada.

Out of the umpteen piles of festering excrement which the world seemed to be producing in the nineties, you put the 996 in THIRD? Ok, in the Porsche legacy it won’t be remembered as a shining beacon, but the nineties gave us the Opel Vectra, the Daewoo Whatever, every Fiat, Alfa Romeo and Lancia.

I sincerely hope not. It looks shit.

This stuff is gold Tyler.

I think anyone would like that. Doing it in such an obnoxious fashion makes it weapons-grade douchebaggery.

Your are however gripped by the mythos of the self-induglent douche with more money than sense.

If it’s not running 23 it’s not proper.

Mission Pilot William Pogue is quite a hairy bastard.

Juha Kankkunen is not amused. LINK

Unfortunately not.

Naturally aspirated V12s will always win any sound competition.

One of those is for sale here in Italy for a fairly reasonable amount. Unfortunately it’s red.