Those H1s are hungry hungry hippos and a 500 is tasty, but why does the game describe the “mice” as slower than the “cats” when an Abarth would run circles around a Hummer on anthing resembling tarmac?

Just have one on the front and one on the back with the north side always pointing out. Doesn’t matter if it’s head on or rear end, everyone is going to repel.

I would put a reversible polarity electromagnet on both ends. Repel collisions most of the time, but turn it off, gently nudge on the car in front of me, then put it to attract and pro-level hypermile by towing along for the ride.

Can we get magnets in ham?

A downhill mountain race would cure the sleep part. Gravity would do a hell of a lot better job at accelerating a H1 than its engine could ever hope to do, so speed is guaranteed. And with the speed comes pants shitting, burning brakes, titanic body roll, screaming tires, and screaming people.

I feel the more Doug thing to do would be to take the Skyline offroad instead. Nothing that would instantly kill it like meter deep mudding or rock crawling, but to put it in something more the Hummer’s element.

Just buy a 997 or earlier model then. Screw it, real Porsches have air cooled engines too!

It’s a lot easier to remove the seats to save weight on a track edition than it is to completely redo the car and put the engine in the middle which would turn a GT3 from a 911 variant to an entirely different car altogether. I don’t know exactly why rear seats aren’t optional to put back into a GT3 or GT3RS, but they…

I get why they wanted a lead car for pacing, but it seems strange to have to go all out and use a Z/28 for that when any lesser Camaro would have sufficed. Oh who am I kidding, any excuse to drive a Z/28 on track is a good excuse, and everyone gets to hear an LS7 barking amidst a sea of V6s.

The funny part is, despite how expensive mules and preproduction cars are, in almost all cases they are required to crush them anyways.

I don’t think the lead car would be going all out, that would be stupid when you’re supposed to keep a line of journalists behind you and not try to lap them. I do wonder why they actually used a Z/28 as a pace car for V6 mules though, because for a good driver it would be all to easy to exploit the extra grip and…

If it was 500lb lighter he might have crashed it into the wall 10 mph faster.

Yeah, the Corvette is one model, while Porsche is an entire company.

5 hp is a drop in the bucket, but don’t forget the 50lbft torque advantage. This thing will pull from low-mid range rpm a good deal harder than the 5.0, and probably sound a heck of a lot better doing it because the 2015 GT is apparently a little too quiet stock. The Gen 5 Camaro SS was almost as fast as the 2011-2014…

Are you kidding? While maybe not on a 5000+lb SUV or pickup truck, 200lb is a decent chunk of weight to lose in a car. And it easily makes the Camaro for once noticeably lighter than the Mustang, which seems to have gained 50-200lb across the range.

The one time I went to see an Indy race (at Toronto, in my case) these trucks totally stole the show. I only really caught the last few laps, but once you get used to the noise and speed of Indy cars you start wishing they could do jumps too.

If the Toyota GT86 is the spiritual successor of the AE86, then this is the spiritual successor of the version of the AE86 from Initial D with its 11,000 rpm race-spec motor. Still low displacement and not a lot of torque, but holy hell it can make a lot of power at high revs.

They are banned probably for the same reason winter tires are mandated in Quebec rather than just being highly recommended. If your tires/wheels/ride height/suspension are unsuited to the road then your car is unsuited to the road.

Just like Porsche taking away manual in the GT3, does this mean the previous model years will increase in value because everyone’s looking for their fix of V8 RWD?

I’m pretty sure you could crash it and still manage to sell its burning wreck for more than $60k if you tried.