A lot of Japan's rail infrastructure is built the way the old IRT/BMT/IND were built, by competing semi-private entities. Just as with the old IRT vs BMT construction push giving us the entire 300+ mile NYC subway system absent the IND and the Flushing line in a matter of a decade or two, the Japanese system of…

My old Saab 9-5 Aero had the exact same setup, along with all sorts of other wonderful toys.

You deserve an internet pulitzer for this, Drew.

There's nothing "insane" about swapping in yet another popular donor engine (this means YOU, all you 2JZ/LS[x]/SR20/RB26/etc, etc, etcs, swappers out there).

I first found out about this car 15 years ago in a comparo review from road and track or maybe some obscure British car mag that 9th grade me somehow happened upon.

One word: Canals.

Be careful what you say, reason is hate speech in these parts...

Carl Lewis performed 10 years after Marvin Gaye obliterated the national anthem, leaving Francis Scott Key and indeed the rest of the country quivering and asking for a cigarette.

No matter how many times I see this, I am still in awe of the fact that to this day, it stands as the single coolest moment ever captured on film.

The 1988-1995 MB lineup to me is one of the greatest lineups of all time, with just about every one now a future classic.

But the proper e36 WAGON still takes the cake.

You're cruising for a trip to the greys with a suggestion like that...

You shut your whore mouth!

The rise of the Russian, Middle-Eastern and Chinese markets as a proportion of the SL's market, that's what. All the surgeons and law firm partners now drive Panameras, Teslas, and R8s now anyways.

I'm noticing the distinctly S2000-y vibe to the whole car, from the front to the general proportions of the thing, and I'm liking it. A lot.

Funny what happens when you kill off the secular military-backed strongmen in countries that are otherwise beset by ethnic and religious strife.

Great writeup as usual Tyler, it seems like things are heating up in a big way in the world of classified aircraft projects.

Great read, I'm endlessly fascinated by precision navigational systems of pretty much every sort.

Saying you could get "nearly every part" of the FR500 from the parts catalog when that didn't include the body kit or the special-sauce front suspension revamp is like saying the XJ220 came with "nearly every part" from the concept while omitting the crucial V12.

If we're talking SAABs, it's a wash for me between the Phoenix 9-3-that-never-was and the Alfa 159-based 9-5 that was supposed to have hit the dealerships in 2004-05.