Thursday, May 30, 2013

Cars of the Zodiac

I'm a Libra: "His ideal car would be a vehicle mounting two steering wheels, two hood, and two motors, permitting him to drive in either direction.  In actuality, a Libra owns a sports car and a sedan."

Sounds about right.

Hat tip to PHENOTYP over on Oppo

Wankel Powered Lawn Mower Dyno Run & Donuts

Freakin' hilarious. Donuts start at 1:30



Thursday, April 25, 2013

How to Go Faster & Influence People - Gordon Murray

Superb documentary detailing his Formula One design career, the McLaren F1, and his latest microcar projects, the revolutionary T25 and T27.



One I Wrote for Petrolicious - 928 Ways to Kill the 911

"A world without the Porsche 911 is not a place I like to imagine, but to paraphrase Hunter S. Thompson, you’ve got no place as a writer if you’re not willing to indulge the occasional dark thought. So here goes: no iconic uber-beetle, that unmistakable silhouette honed by decades of aerodynamic refinement no more than a dream, the gruff, off-beat idle and yowling, warbling top-end scream of that fabulous pancake six merely an echo from an alternate plane of reality, that gently bobbing front end, living, ethereal steering, initial understeer and physics-defying post-apex traction no more corporeal than an emotion. This 911-less world is a cold and colorless place for anyone with petrol in the blood, a nightmare scenario for those of us who love great cars like others love the sun, so we should all be thankful that Porsche never had their way—they never killed the 911."

Link

Tuesday, April 9, 2013