Dude in the red Kia (?) in the parking lot was lucky (skip to about 20 seconds in, second camera angle). Probably should have gone in and bought a lotto ticket immediately after that.

Interesting story. I've heard of this trip, but this book sounds interesting.

Pretty much anything mid-80s and before. I cut my teeth on my '71 MGB GT (which I still have) and my Dad's '59 Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite before that. The Sprite is perhaps not cheap, but an MGB certainly is. As well as some Japanese tin, just shy away from the more popular offerings such as Z cars and 510s (as…

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I think that actually helps the case, to be honest.

This is one reason to have children, then brainwash...erm, I mean "install enthusiasm" in them for your beloved car.

They really should have started that video with the on-car vid that runs with the credits at the end.

Thank you! Every single review of a Morgan talks about it being "a wood car" or "made of wood."

Let alone one who's native language isn't English.

Ah, gotcha. Most likely the co-driver has his seat much lower and much farther back, to lower the center of gravity. That, and he doesn't need to see out the windows — his world is the pace notes in his hands.

He's got a co-driver sitting shotgun...that's who's talking in the video.

We get a little snow here in the Pacific Northwest (actually, just got about 1/2 inch last night and still coming down), and here in Oregon we don't salt the roads (yet).

There's so much more to getting a car around a track than power, weight, transmission and tires. Suspension setup is huge as you allude to. Weight distribution is pretty dang important. Brakes are a far more important factor than people give credence to. And two cars that have the same flywheel horsepower may, due…

No no...THIS is a cutaway (with high-res pictures of each section):

I was wondering the same thing.

So many of us have expressed a desire to do away with the gallery format, and for a while there was an option to show it all on one page (I think before Kinja or whatever the heck it's called). Perhaps that feature should make a return?

I'll stick to the Brits, thanks.

Wife's 2008 Jetta S with the DSG transmission autolocks them. I think it's distance based, though, because I've rolled along barely touching the gas (less than 10mph) and it locked them a few hundred feet down the way.

Seconded! Big brash V12s are definitely the best.

She's been handed the keys to a brand new Viper. And she's talking about the grill honeycomb not being hexagonal.