One Genesis.

Many, many moons ago, I had a fast, reasonably well-sorted (ahem...) turbocharged ‘96 Miata. After 30k hard track miles, it threw a rod at Sears Point. No biggie, right? Junkyard long block, swap parts, away we go.

Big thumbs up for the Niva. We used to hoon them in Canada when I was still in high school. They were great little tanks and extraordinarily cheap on the used market. My favorite was the uplevel ‘Cossack Edition’, which featured shiny bits and more gauges. It was the annual highlight of the Vancouver auto show.

There is only one obvious answer. M3W

Evidently the driver thought the word on the back of the truck was an instruction.

The hotel did, sure.

If the thought is that the nostalgia is driven by the external pricing dynamics, I’m not sure that’s it. If you spend time with something when you’re younger, it’s more novel, you’re more impressionable, etc, it’s bound to imprint a different kind of memory. That, in turn, defines its own selection bias, but…

I wrestled with similar issues. In the end I got a 928GT. It met a few key requirements:

Yeah, there is some wisdom there. I can’t say driving the 930 ruined me for other cars (let alone other Porsches) since I didn’t really know anything about driving at the time. But I could tell already at the time that the car was not to be trifled with, and the warning my dad gave me was true.

This one strikes a chord. My dad had a Canadian-market 1982 930, during the dark years when such things were not being imported directly. He picked it up at the factory in November, on fresh Pirelli P7 rubber, and proceeded to drive it around Germany with my mom, in varying wintry conditions. It was then returned to…

Denial.

The idea of a unibody/monocoque construction. Safer, much more efficient, more consistent dimensions for mass production, vastly more rigid, and on and on and on. Revolutionary when Colin Chapman made a big deal of it in racing, but in fact dates back to a Lancia from the '20s.

McLaren initially approached another manufacturer (I want to say it was Alpine but not sure) asking them to do a custom setup which took a lot of extra weight out of the hardware, but they were turned down.  Kenwood accepted the challenge.  The resultant system weighed just under 19lbs, instead of the ~38lbs the…

I spun out while leaving Laguna Seca, going less than 20mph.

In fact Eli's imagination the car's interior could be even more awesome than the drivetrain. The three seats/steering wheels thing is only the beginning! It needs a deployable heli-boat, vending machines, steering and driving via awesome brain reading helmets, and gauges which measure stuff like "Cocoa Krispies…

You're right, the harmonic imbalance of an odd number of engines would be a real problem. He should go for 20 instead. Thanks for the physics lesson, teach! Where would imaginative kids like Eli be without your helpful guidance...

Regardless of anything else, I would be inclined to reserve maybe six or eight engines to be engaged only when one of the drivers slams forward a big mechanical lever (which may or may not look suspiciously like a downshift), so that you have that extra power boost available for special occasions.

It's fast. Guys who 'step up' to Cup Cars and the like just don't know about momentum.

The New Mini. Technically launched as a 2001 model, it showed that "small car" didn't have to mean "cheap car" and that lots of different markets (US among them) were willing to pay for premium content in a small, fuel-efficient platform.

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