Indeed not. Senna may have conducted driving clinics, but when it came to racecraft, he was no Professor.

Depends on which Professor.

How much more power are we talking here? Because they could probably leave it at 37 horsepower, stick a button on the dash labeled "traction control" that's connected to nothing, and nobody would ever know the difference.

The Lada is a Fiat built under license, something which was done in many third-world areas as well. The Chaika is not a "direct copy," though it certainly looks like the love child of a Packard and a Mercury. Still, it was designed for Soviet conditions and when it came out in the '50s, it was quite competitive. …

Yep, because Top Gear would never exaggerate a car's shortcomings for yuks...

Exactly what I came here to say. If it weren't for F1, I'd have no reason to watch Speed. Speedvision, on the other hand, gave me endless reasons to watch: endurance racing, the Speedvision touring car series, Trans Am (and other SCCA pro racing), and the highlight of the holiday viewing season, the SCCA Runoffs.

This song came to mind last week when I was perusing Craigslist and found an ad for a car in which the owner (now living in Michigan) claimed that he had driven the car over from Hawaii about six months ago. I sent him a simple two-word email: "You're kidding." Sadly, I did not get the desired response.

Great song off of a great album (IMO, "The Bends" was the best album of the '90s and one of those albums that is best listened to uninterrupted, start to finish).

That's great and all, but if you want real badassery, read up about Dan Carmichael. In addition to all kinds of other cool achievements, he won the SCCA club racing championship for the third time in Formula Atlantic in 1995, when he was 77 years old! He kept racing Atlantics into his 80s.

At sea level and average temperature, yes. At 20-odd miles above sea level, where the temperature is far lower, no.

Today was not a good day for reading comprehension.

Heresy. Every car looks better in brown.

I saw one of these at a local ice-cream parlor this summer. I think the color looks great. Shame about the styling, though.

I've seen only a few bad colors in the comments (primarily the soft pinks, lavenders, and greens). Beyond that—what's with the antipathy toward cars that have actual color as opposed to, oh I don't know, the reliably boring hegemony of black/white/silver/grey?

I suggest you read the Fourth Amendment carefully. The Constitution, in protecting citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures, does indeed guarantee your right not to allow the government to draw your blood without probable cause and a warrant. Refusal to take a breath test doesn't change that equation. It…

The alternative is to get a warrant. That's just basic Fourth Amendment law, and the exceptions to that rule are supposed to be very narrowly construed. For example, the "exigent circumstances" exception has been invoked to justify a warrantless entry into a person's home to prevent the destruction of evidence of…

Be glad you have a '98. The auto trannies and electronic throttles on the '99 to roughly '02 X70s are notoriously unreliable.

Speaking of overpriced F-bodies with awful body kits... this one is being sold as a "Ferrari F40"!?!?!?

On paper it sounded great—I rushed out to drive one when they first came out. But after test driving one of the Hemi-equipped models, I was distinctly unimpressed. It felt heavy and slow, and the chop-top roofline meant that it didn't have that much cargo space, either. My '88 Volvo 740 turbo wagon is more fun to…

Drawing blood is a much greater intrusion than sampling one's breath. Driving may be a privilege, but the right to be free from a warrantless search or seizure is a constitutional right, subject only to narrow exemptions.