thesmokingtire
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I wish it was that high quality. This looked exactly like the photo in the article, but pushing the other way. Read more

Seats for sure, then 100 HP. This car was nice but cannot accelerate up hills in 3rd or 4th gear. Read more

Its a true story about my mustang from high school. My current mustang was in the shop and unavailable to shoot Read more

Definitely, but i’d say thank america’s wealthy owners who are no longer willing to put up with unreliable cars. See Ferrari’s growth vs, Aston’s for examples of this. Read more

The 360 was a rental at Gotham Dream Cars, a very early production 1999 model, *possibly* even an ex press car. I only say that because the speedo was in KM and it was fast as fuck. Walked Challenge Stradales all day long. Read more

The guys who run the rental businesses are really the people who can tell you if an exotic car is going to be reliable long-term. Those are worst-case cars. And all of them tell me, unequivocally, that the Ferrari 458 is a very reliable car. If I was going to spend my money on a used exotic and didn’t require a stick Read more

The highest mileage I’ve ever seen on a Gallardo was 120,000. The highest I’ve seen on a Ferrari 360 was around 150,000. Highest on a 430 was like 90,000, but on its third engine. Highest I’ve seen on a Murcielago was 64,000. Highest I’ve seen on a 458 is around 100,000. This McLaren, at 32,000 was the highest I’ve Read more

The seller is an engineer at Toyota in Torrance, CA. We didn’t talk money so much, but he did most if not all the work himself. Very nice guy, very smart, and did the build over a long period of time while development driving and fine tuning it. The only downside to the car is with the front bench seat you really have Read more

I just reviewed this car last week. It's dope as hell and well sorted. The video comes out in like 2 weeks Read more

He doesn't have a new one. Nobody has 2017 Raptors yet. They don't exist. Read more

we filmed the /DRIVE Austin Special for NBC Sports in that hill country it was beautiful. Read more

The auto is a Camry auto, and you don't get the limited slip diff with the auto either (at least you don't in the Evora 400) Read more

I went around Laguna Seca in bmw’s “track trainer” autonomous car a couple years ago. Basically you’d press “record” and a pro driver would set a lap, and then press “play” and the car would replicate the pro’s lap at about 90 percent pace. It was super fucking fun as a one-off experience, and could provide an Read more