There was a day when an automotive designer would think to himself, with a straight face, 'what this car needs is a roof with portholes and it should glide back silently on warm summer days to let the gentle summer winds caress the hair of passenger.' Alas, that is not today.

Was sure it was going to an SBC in the front of the thing, but now I'm just confused. Why would you take the engine with less torque, put it in a vehicle carrying almost a 1000lbs extra and then take your cast iron block engine and put it in the smaller, lighter car? I understand why people put the aluminum block LS…

My Dad's an autobody man, so for my three brothers and me he and my Mother agreed to buy us non-running cars if we would fix them.

They were there in 1998 They were there at the Detroit Auto Show They're losing their edge They're losing their edge, to the cars whose infotainment systems they hear when they park at the mall

Tony Stark is a man of wealth and taste. He likes cars that are obscenely fast and ludicrously expensive, like the Audi R8 and the Saleen S7. But when he dons his Iron Man suit, cars get blown up. Specifically, his cars. And other people's cars. Also military equipment, aliens, and his enemies, but especially cars.

Reading anything interesting? Book–wise?

Yes, just yes.

Competitive for a blog or competitive for Journalism? Either way it's a bit like saying you're competitive swimming with five year olds, non?

The first sentence was in response to Victorious Secret writing 'to say kids aren't interested in cars anymore is fucking absurd,' not whether or not it's a good idea to try to 'fix it.' It is, probably, impossible to 'fix' the dying interest in cars, I agree. But I disagree that the ubiquity of cars has caused the…

It isn't fucking absurd. In the past cars were at the centre of the American dream. No matter who you were, the dream was one day to have that special car. I know for myself, if I hadn't been raised by an autobody mechanic, I would not be interested in cars. In the sixties kids wanted to be Frank Bullitt and drive a…

I think you mean FBI agent Dale Cooper. It was given to him by an owl from the white lodge to create the power to fight Bob and push him back into the black lodge. It was originally designed to run on black coffee and baked goods (i.e. doughnuts and sherry pie). Unfortunately Windham Earl got ahold of the plans, and…

I was taking pictures of some cars that came through town on a New York to Alaska classic car rally for work and there were a couple old Bentleys there. One of the guys was in a very dirty Bentley 4½ Litre, and he said he was always thinking about where he could next fill up.

A few pages in and now I want to read about 2 fents 2 burshes 4 brick and a trash can.

European and Japanese? I like the old Japanese cars, but aside from Japanese Nostalgic Car, where the pickings can be quite slim, there's not a lot of coverage on them. Petrolicious has the odd article, but they seem to be in love mostly with Italians and Germans.

1.2l (FD=1.3 so that's still in the running as well) unless you try to take into account 2 stroke versus 4 stroke accounting of displacement, but we're not interested in that are we? (and really it was obligatory)

Was Donnie Darko driving?

Twin’Z is an electric supermini. Thanks to its architecture, which features a rear-mounted motor and batteries located beneath the floor, it frees up exceptional cabin space and delivers high quality handling that makes it a delight to drive.

It would be super awesome to see the bug get rebuilt, phoenix style. Granted, money may draw out the process but I think everyone would love to see the car rise to its former glory, and maybe even surpass it.

And possibly the peak in both an ephemeral build quality and amazing driving dynamics is the Lotus Elan. Peter Egan says it better than I could (having the honour of restoring one) http://www.roadandtrack.com/go/news/classi….

Worse line in that tragedy of an adaption. Throws away Tolkien's mythology for an unfunny joke. I wrote all three films off after that line bit.