NASCAR would do well to adopt the tiller. It would make it easier to tie it to the side of the roll cage and drive in circles.

You never know when a bout of challenging handling, less money allocated to “improving” a car’s handling and more money spent on involving the best computer of all – the human brain – might just a person’s life.

Here's why it'll never fly:

It occurred to me that to hinder this texting and driving phenomenon we have to stop worrying about a car’s handling and focus more on how to engage the driver in the car’s handling.

1. Choose the model year that would grandfather in whatever features are important to you but are no longer available.

I'm willing to bet that the NY Police commissioner is not even remotely interested in apprehending him.

Classy, Lotus.

Two Lane Blacktop and Heart Like a Wheel are excellent popcorn drag racing flicks. Heart Like a Wheel is a touch on the "Lifetime Afternoon Movie" side, but that might make it easier to pass the Significant Other test.

Like Ferarri removed some mass...a?

So glad everyone is OK, because it makes it so much easier to enjoy the jokes.

Not quite in the same league, but I am in love with cokebottle/fuselage era B-body Mopar skins being dropped on top of LX (Charger/300C) underpinnings.

By "like," you mean ham-handed and campy?

Can't. Stop. Wincing.

His stated aim was to beat someone else's time on a set course. He intentionally set up a clock, and his "record" time was the central point of the subsequent self-promotion and publicity.

I think I realized why I like these so much — they're the opposite of all the 'aspirational' bullshit that's the norm for commuter cars now. Everyone that buys a Corolla or whatever boring beige sedan as a commuter car because they don't give a shit about cars should be buying these instead. They use less gas, they…

Please 'splain..?

It looks like a Caterham Clubman.

The thing is, money, power, and prestige exert plenty of influence over people at the individual level. Coordinated secret conspiracies are usually not necessary to explain such events and phenomena.

Yeah, well I intended that to be a dig about the Probe's front wheel drive. Too subtle?

At least the Mustang haters would have to shut up about the lack of independent rear suspension.