Eddie Alterman just did a well written piece in Car and Driver about the LaFerrari

and one line is very funny...

"I've driven cars that have tried to kill me before, but none with such a vast resume of homicidal know-how"

a terrific article from Aaron Robinson in Car and Driver where he interviews the owner of Willow Springs Raceway, Bill Huth

As you can imagine, Huth knew pretty much everybody. 

“Shelby was running a driving school. One day he said, ‘Bill, do you care if I tell people that I own this racetrack?’ I said, ‘Carroll, I don’t give a shit, you can tell them whatever you want to.’ ”

 Movie stars? “James Garner wouldn’t fit in the car when they made Grand Prix. They brought the car up, and he couldn’t get in the son of a bitch. They said, ‘You’re going to have to lose some fucking weight.’ ” 

And, “Oh, Steve McQueen, one time the transaxle in his Porsche broke, and he ordered six of them. They flew them in, six fucking axles! I says, ‘You must have a lot of trouble with them.’ ”

Huth is also developing the low-buck Formula Pacific, a sort of super kart with a motorcycle engine that he’s hoping will break Willow’s current lap record: 1 minute, 6.05 seconds, set in 1987 by Michael Andretti in a Kraco March ­Cosworth Indy car.

http://www.caranddriver.com/columns/aaron-robinson-gambling-whiskey-and-willow-springs-raceway-column for the whole article.

You can always count on an entertaining read and good points from an Ezra Dyer column, case in point, June 2014 Automobile magazine column

In advice to Subaru:
but it surely pains the gold-wheel loyalists that the latest and greatest Fuji Heavy Industries rally rocket will get dusted at the drag strip by an eight-year-old American station wagon


and Chrysler:
Stop being embarrassed by Dodge. Once upon a time, the Viper wore a Dodge logo and Dodge Rams roamed the earth. Now Dodge is treated like the Cousin Eddie of the family, and I don’t like it. You’re telling me that a Hemi Charger is a Dodge but a faster Hemi Charger is an SRT?

Read the full article at http://www.automobilemag.com/features/columns/1406-free-advice/

fyi, the word is out that the SRT brand was a failure, and the head of Fiat/Chrysler is killing it off, and that will go back to Dodge

An amazing story, excerpted in Automobile Magazine, reminded me how damn good sports writers are

Black Noon: The Year They Stopped the Indy 500, by Art Garner

http://www.automobilemag.com/features/magazine/1406-black-noon-year-they-stopped-the-indy-500/

Why the speed limit policing? Does "Speed KILLS!!!" make any sense? Of course not

The proof is that every car on the planet (right now) has been driven over the posted speed limit, and those cars are still on the road (right now) ergo, proof that exceeding the bureaucratically self righteous number from politicians that don't have to deal with paying for gas, vehicles, or tickets (here in the USA most politicians are crooks and are GIVEN vehicles and gas, and get the tickets tossed http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/03/investigation-in-new-orleans-finds.html )

In Australia, there are 23 million people. In the state of Victoria, there are 5 million... and the state of Victoria has raised $266 million dollars from speeding tickets in 2013. (Stephen Corby, columnist car and Driver, former editor of Wheels Magazine, the oldest car magazine in Australia) But it was realized that if you want to speed in Australia, get a foreigner that will not have a Victoria Australia drivers license, and have them get behind the wheel. (I am for hire anytime, my Australian friends!)

1.3 million people were booked for speeding, and not a one was dead.

Ipso Facto: Speed does not kill. It does create a ticket system for raising revenue from a countries citizens who are more likely to have a traffic related collision from constantly being more focused on their speedometer than defensively driving.

In fact, the faster you drive, the less time you spend on the road, the less fatigue you have, and the quicker you get off the road and make it a less congested area for other drivers. My logical deduction, is of course, my own, and you can be sure I am fine with it no matter how many people disagree.

Wasn't every country in the world a better place before traffic speed limits? Of course. People could go as fast as they liked, stimulated their brains, and then they invented all the cool stuff we have today, like electricity, telephones, and airplanes. What have we accomplished since the speed limits stifled our creative impulses? Global warming, court tv, and the highest cost of gasoline in history. Oh, and the embargo on Cuba.

So, set your mind free, and find the open road... and drive as fast as you like as long as you can, because the cops are too busy posing for my latest "Abuse by law enforcement" post photos http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/abuse%20by%20law%20enforcement