I’ve driven corollas and I’ve driven BMWs, having done both, I’ll gladly take the possibility of being stranded on the road side with a BMW over having to drive such a mind numbing, soul sucking vehicle. That being said, I’ve owned a few 10+ year old BMW’s and have never been left stranded once. Maybe I’m lucky… but I…

He said there would be a port on the fender... it will be outside ambient air.

For anyone interested in science google “Nessa Devil Jaguar” to see the rest of this photo shoot.

For a car so mechanically simple... can we just have a Jalopnik garage event where a group of mechanically handy individuals get together, and for a few hundred bucks (probably), your car gets fixed up, tuned up, and made reliable?

If I had exorbitant amounts of money and was able to get my hands on one of these, I’d start my own youtube channel where I document the self service of my Ford GT in a shed with a hoist, just to troll uber rich people and Ford. I’ve got some friends of friends who work at Multimatic who I’m sure could easily…

I’ve seen this before...

I had the same experience getting the axle nuts off the trailing arms on my ‘83 320i. Fortunately I had the luxury of having the trailing arms off the car. Letting them soak in PB blaster for hours, heating with torch, nothing worked. We ended up putting them on a milling machine and milling the side of the nut off…

Must be one of Ric Flair’s kids...

Nascar on road courses > Nascar on Ovals

Thing is, you can see in the video he decent amount of track left to help scrub some speed, he could have took a wider turn and went up the bank, by then he’d probably have it slowed down sufficiently, and if not, putting lightly into the wall is a better option than trying to make the turn and rolling. To me that’s…

A new clown shoe would be fantastic...

The most ridiculous part of this story... The mechanic quoting $18,000 for an engine replacement on an E39. I understand that the mechanic has to make a living and all... but c’mon, You can get a good motor pulled out of a wrecked car for under $1000, add another $1000 in seals, belts, and other parts to refresh while…

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If there’s one consistent theme in Raph’s adventures... it’s that he never learns...

And what’s your point? It still requires a high level of driver skill to be able to compete at the top levels, it’s exciting to watch, it promotes car culture, and because it’s mostly an open format a lot of cool cars and engine swaps are built as a result.

Was the key still in it? Because usually you can’t remove the key if the car is left in gear.

A friends 1998 Camry 5-spd sat parked at my place during the summer last year. When he said he was going to come pick it up I went out to start it for him and it wouldn’t turn over. I tried boosting it and it still wouldn’t turn over. Suspecting some sort of electrical issue, I then spent a few hours looking at wiring…

It’s important to convey that cars react differently to throttle inputs when they are being driven on the limit of traction, basically sliding through the turns, compared to the average HPDE students who are typically still no where near their car’s maximum corner speeds.

It was admitted that it was to help add to the show, but the primary reason they added the titanium skid plate was to help prevent teams from engineering the laminated wood skid plank that they were running prior to deflect at speed to gain aerodynamic advantage (see: Red Bull)

The lanes look pretty narrow. Not sure you’d be able to get much angle going before rubbing the guard rails... Which brings up a good point... on the off chance that a collision occurs on the bridge traffic is going to grind to a halt.