It's the fuel injector wiring harness, and its resting on the intake. If that is hot enough to melt wires/cause a fire, you've got bigger problems than wiring. Usually the part of that harness that crosses from one side to the other either runs under the intake or behind it and down...closer to the hot parts.

Awful, but it was only a matter of time.

I agree with both of you, and I know the color matching would be difficult with current plastics. I'm talking in an ideal world where our automakers had money to throw at development of bumper plastics, hence the moon comment.

599 GTO if only for the violence of the downshifts.

There was a period where I was driving a $500 95 Mazda 323 hatch and my buddy was driving an $300 BMW e28 with proper 80's super safety bumpers. Luckily my 323 was the low-spec version with the unpainted rubber bumper covers. I remember finding myself behind him at a light, him unaware of my presence. No one was…

I challenge the assertion that it having a useful bumper will negatively affect the general safety of the car. In fact, the mechanisms at play here in the effective 80's bumpers and modern ones are largely the same. There is a fair amount of energy, but it's orders of magnitude less than what is involved in a 30mph…

Messy? A little. Fire hazard? Unlikely, particularly on the cold side of the engine.

I think I've seen something like this before from Lambo...

Given the variation between dynos I'll call cars with a 20hp or 2% variation equally special.

Even those vary wildly from one type of dyno to the next, or even two different dynos of the same model. I've heard of variations as large as 15-20% between chassis dyno types.

Yes, the loss should be higher for an AWD car than for a FWD or RWD car, but it's all guestimation anyway so there's no reason to split hairs.

If you want to back-calculate flywheel power then you factor in drive-line loss.

Wow, I never knew of this. Cadillac was eerily prophetic, as many donks later had this done to them.

Ferrari always does the badge+prancing horse thing.

Well done, sir.

You'd be shocked how far novelty gets you.

Yeah, I see what they're doing there with the F1 tail light reference, but it isn't working. Frankly I think it could do with a traditional black diffuser and not that painted center section.

The ladies love it...seriously.

You could get em in '89, close enough...

JDM 300zx. Why? Because in Japan you could get a 2+2 turbo. Plus RHD.