Once you get the first scratch on your bumper it's much easier to stomach. I just resigned myself that I'll have to paint the bumper skins eventually. I haven't seen any damage on the side of my car in over a year of parking it on the street, so I don't know what this guy is so worried about. I'd rather have little…

I helped find/buy one of these for a friends father who had one as a kid. Great cars.

"the exact same back he crashed on"

Might not be a British guy, but he went faster on British roads...

Gotta agree with #1. I've got an NA miata, and if I'm stuck in traffic and it's a nice day, just putting the top down makes it a bit more bearable.

Faster than an R8 V10? That doesn't sound right. Same driver? I doubt it.

Just looked that thing up. HOLY CRAP that's awesome. Reading about it, it doesn't seem like it compromises much from a standard RV perspective. Certainly much less than most amphibious vehicles.

I know the show makes it look like you guys have the best time in the world, but how accurate is that? Between all the preparation for the trips and stunts and setting up shots during the road trips, I'd imagine quite a bit of work goes into it. Are you guys still having as good of a time as it looks?

That graph is amazing. It reminds me of the "top gear excellence-embarrassment graph"

That's not entirely true. Denser objects tend to fall faster than less dense ones because density tends to be inversely correlated with frontal area, which directly affects drag. Drag is the only real variable here. In atmosphere objects with a high force of drag 'Fd' to force of gravity 'Fg' ratio will fall slower.…

I would have to imagine that as long as the world population and the number of people competing is growing, the records will continue to fall. The causes are two fold the way I see it.

Sure. Being from Newark I should have known better, but I left my car parked in front of my mom's house for ONE NIGHT. I returned to find my windows down and the lock pried out. They couldn't steal the car (it didn't even look like they tried) but they did get an iPod out of my glovebox.

I literally JUST got my G35 Coupe back from that shop after some break-in damage. Seemed to do a good job, but I didn't see Vlad or custom Bimmers there. Dealt with an older guy who seemed to know what he was doing.

The oil pump nut thing just happened to my buddy's Z3. Luckily he caught it before he burned up his engine. 60k mile car...

Looks like a clean swap and the 1jz is a great motor. That said, I doubt it has the stock ZF box.

Otherwise known as pretty much the same as the standard R8...not bad.

Turbo LS3 apparently

Turbo LS3 apparently

That was no OSG headed car, or at least if it was, it was turbo. I've only seen one of those, though.

Sounded like a turbo L-series to me, but that's a bit of a guess.