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The Ford distributor is an option. Johns car that I drove has a magneto. Read more

Apparently it was a hot conversation topic on Tesla’s internal chat yesterday. Read more

Well, I drove it too. Autopilot is about 3 minutes of a 15 minute car review. In general though, I agree with you and autopilot is excellent at “boring driving” Read more

Tested one last year at Monticello, minus the turn signals. There is no way in hell I'd street drive that thing. Awesome race car thouch Read more

“Your honor, I saw those fake scoops on the side, and I don’t remember anything After that. I must have gone into a rage” Read more

So 50 Cent, the guy who filled his driveway with borrowed cars from Steven Cohen (complete with their Greenwich Concours stickers on them) for his MTV Cribs episode and once told me in person that the “50" Edition Pontiac G8 GXP he was hawking was “modified with a Corvette engine,” is gonna save Top Gear? Right. Read more

I’ve talked about it a bunch before, but I somehow got NY to approve the “MAKEUPOO” plate I got for my Cobra Read more

Alternatively, anyone who’s been to the Corvette factory can tell you why that place needs some upgrades. It looks straight out of 1985 in there. Read more

It’s the Feiyu G4 Gimbal, and it's pretty solid. Had an Osmo for a while but it was only incrementally better video quality and didn't process audio at all, so I went back to this one. Read more

Back in ‘03 I watched a Philly cop car absolutely hauling ass up Walnut St at what must have been 70 or 80 mph. Lights and sirens on, but when he got to the (red) light where I was standing, at the corner of 41st st, didnt slow down at all and T-Boned an 84 Skylark at full clip. Didnt even make it to the brake pedal. Read more

I just spoke with Sean. He’s actually out on One Lap at the moment, so he isn’t home to deal with it, but said aside from losing a couple dogs in the fire, no one was harmed. They lost some cars, but have insurance, and hopefully everything should be fine. Read more

Not at all. The turbo motor heat soaks less than the NA engine under heavy use too. Porsche did 50 dyno pulls on a hot day, and the turbo engine lost less power between 1 and 50 than the NA car. Read more

Yes Boxster and Boxster S both have 6MT as standard transmission Read more

They have to shut down the entire highway to move it. Two 130' sections on the largest trailers you can imagine. I almost got to tow it around the airport with the tug for a one take, but the airport demanded a prohibitively expensive insurance policy. Read more

A friend of mine just bought a shell of a 747-400 (no engines, avionics, or interior) for $75,000. He’s turning it into a “game over” art car for burning man. Even got a matching , functional 75 ton airport tug for $10k more. Read more