Wannabe/shoulda-been 356 owner and son of a 912 owner here. Just find it kinda amusing that everyone automatically assumes Porsches have always been screaming straight-line-speed beasts. Also interesting to go through road tests of 911s in the ‘70s and see the pretty pedestrian 0-60 results there. But sure, what… Read more

“Porsches are fast.”

We live in interesting times.
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Let’s make sure we calibrate our ire correctly here: Read more

Minor design addendum: you’re gonna need to add some sizable gas tanks there. A decent rail burns about 15-20 gallons of that wonder fuel on an average burnout/staging/race cycle.
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Cilantro. Cilantro on anything Mexican or Asian. One of the ultimate acquired tastes, but dear God does it elevate. Read more

I have lived a lifetime of intense fondness for the GT40 convinced that the small-block cars had flat-plane cranks because I read that in several places, or so I thought. Even saw the name of the place that did the crank forgings, which of course no longer exists. Read more

Considering the cost of the car itself and that of certain components (the proper ZF-designed gearbox is not cheap) that’s not too far out of line if you want it to be right. Read more

It’s like the Cobras that Shelby American still makes: It’s the real thing (an updated build of the original, sanctioned by the legal owners of the design, significant historical continuity and parts commonality) but it’s not the original thing (one of the 105 that Ford made in Slough or Wixom). Read more

Fun little detail: These Superformance cars aren’t exactly replicas. The GT40's lineage from Ford to this is traceable; this is a continuation of the original design with proper rights and continuity along the way.

Well, yeah. Read more

Enzo’s use of the mystique thing was a meaningful part of his management of the race team - the access granted to favored journalists, the contrivances in some of the press conferences (staged phone calls with live reports of test sessions and that sort of thing) - but those dramatics also helped boost the image of… Read more

Ferrari’s shtick for a long time has been The Mystique Thing. It was that way when Enzo was in charge, treating media relations as less than an afterthought and customers as panderers - which was part dramatic staging and part masterfully playing to people’s insecurities. It’s been that way since money started getting… Read more

Americans could finally get 5-speeds coupled to the inline-6 late in the run. Europe had them when we didn’t, although all sixes again. Read more

Among the last of the real long-legged purist GT cars for the price of a high-mile Corolla. Read more

C’mon, man. Keep going. Read more

The 599 has always been kind of a weird design. Photos do it little justice; it only starts to work when seen in reality, with the benefit of depth and perspective. Read more

Juicy Pear is surprisingly good. Not a flavor you’d expect to make an impact, but it works. Read more

Interesting how both seem to have that majority-loathing/minority-supporting vibe. (Would say that licorice is the more classic example, but buttered popcorn has been around for at least thirty goddamn years so it’s getting there.) Read more