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Awesome picture man.

This clip from Jay Leno's garage touches on the rationale behind it at around 4:40

May 1, 2008 - GT-R among the fastest ever production road cars at the 'Ring -

KLM I agree with you on your assessment of a run between a stock RX-7 and the new GT-R. As much as I admire the RX-7 and the cult status it has; judging by the reveiws the GT-R has been getting, it'd be pretty much a one-sided race in the Nissan's favour. However, in a race its up to the race teams to do all they can to speed up a car within the parameters of the race guidlines and its up to the drivers to post the best times possiable. When in a competitive environment a team doesn't bring their best effort to the race and then subsequently loses; its unfair to go back and point out that the losing car was almost stock, wasn't tuned properly, had engine problems etc. In this case The RX-7 whether highly modified or not, DID win against the GT-R.

Well during you'll find the presenter refering to the car repeatedly as "The new Skyline R35" dispite it being clearly badged GT-R and listed under " pits the new GT-R against the best 911 and his M3 etc." In your defence though, this clip WAS made before the GT-R went on sale; meaning this was before Nissan clearly communicated to the public that the Skyline model name would not be associated with the Nissan GT-R.

Quite good amateur on fire. If you listen closely you can hear the driver explain how an engine blowout caused the fire.

A bit late but : Yeap well said 'Pericles'. I'm glad someone from the forum stepped up and replied. I thought your posts served well to inform as well as fuzz out some of the stereotypes 'Cerno' touched on.

Cerno's last blog entry touches on illegal street racing in Sri Lanka. (Not too sure whether he's a forum member) Despite the the blog entry not being too complimentary I found it to be a pretty good read with links to autolanka.com, some of the articles there as well as the Honda Club Sri Lanka events page. Link to blog entry here

Happy Birthday!

Rumor has it that Mini (BMW) are set to launch a Mini Crossover / Sports Activity Vehicle towards the end of 2009 or early 2010. Its to be built by Magna Steyr in Austria alongside the X3 and speculators state the BMW version dubbed the X1 is likely to be built there as well.

Happy Birthday Madmax !

Thank you for the link 'TomaHAWK'. For some weird reason, I wasn't able to veiw the linked video clip off their site, but was about to find the same video (I'm assuming its the same) . While I was searching for it I found that Youtube had a number of related videos; the link to those search results: here for your veiwing pleasure.

What a terriable thing to happen...My sympathies to all his friends and family.

Bond car plunges into Lake Garda : The driver was delivering the Aston Martin DBS to the film scene in heavy rain when he lost control around one of the lake's narrow curves.

I know this email claims otherwise but aren't all modern fuel station pumps temperature compensated to 15c?( I seem to remember stickers on pumps proclaiming that fact...) Anyone know for sure? *Update: Filled up on the way home and paid more attention to the pump. Yes, it DID claim the fuel was "volume corrected to 15c".

lolz! Hasn't even been out that long and already the 'basics' are getting covered! NICE. Also didn't know that the US model had a different front. Interesting...

Can't be a Merc CL-Class Gummybr, (from the other pictures) I can see there's not enough overhang and the rear end is way too curvy to be that of a CL. From the err... rather attractive, curvy rear end, the door mirrors and the bits of slide panelling visiable, I'd say it's a 2007 Mercedes SLK coupe sitting on after-market rims. Oh and incidently, when I was looking through pictures of 2007 SLK's to verify my hunch, I came across a rather fine one of a Clarsson SLK which had rims that resembled the ones on Leyla's car rather closely.

Happy Birthday man