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Just watched the GT350 get its first win. The driver also got his first win and he's only 16 years old. Continental Tire Sportscar Series

F the midwest right now.

This is the staging lanes.. at times they will utilize all four past that walk through area. Which is why my friend and I didn't know if we'd end up next to eachother or not. This random pic I found appears to be from a "Midnight Madness" that they hold once or twice a month over the summer. Kind of like a test and tune night but there are 10 times the people and ALOT of ricer junk also. Still plenty of good cars and they have a huge part of the parking lot blocked off for drifting. I never got into that madness. But the strip is open from 7pm-1am. I can at one of these and It was an hour and a half wait from one pass to the next. Never ran at one ever again. I won't wait that long to make a pass while half the time just sitting idling my car.. This is where you drive under like I was saying above. It's such a rush seeing the grandstands on both sides and hearing all of the other cars(when they aren't ricers). Also, this is just another googled image - random.

Awwww no $h!??? I knew you got your Ram but I didn't realize you traded in your Vette.. Well who gives an F? Steal it for a night! YOLO right?!? lol

You should take your Vette to the drag strip some time on a test 'n tune night. It is such a rush going under the press/officials boxes, through the water box, doing a little burnout to dry the tires(unless you have drag radials - then light 'em up!) then staging. Every single pass I've ever made (only around a dozen or so..) I've been nervous and giddy at the same time. Our track was 25 bucks and run as many passes as you'd like.. I think they are open for 4 hours. You can sit in the stands and watch for a bit. And there are PLENTY of amateurs like ourselves who you can watch and then just walking around talking to other guys about their cars. It's just a great time. Easily the number one thing I'll miss about having my Mach 1. I mean I can still go there but it isn't quite the same when I'm not running(who wants to see a timeslip for an Escape???? lol).

A handful of years ago now(5ish). One of my best friends had a '98 mustang GT and I had a '04 Mustang GT and we headed up to our local strip(Gateway Motorsports Park) for a test 'n tune night. Usually there aren't to many people and you can get some back to back runs in without waiting in line too long. Well we pulled in to opposite lanes hoping by the time we got to the water box we'd actually line up next to eachother. We each made 5 passes(within about an hour and a half) that night and 3 of them were against eachother. That alone was pretty dang awesome! As for the races themselves.. He had pretty much a full bolt on SN, intake, headers, catless and mufferless exhaust(that bitch screamed), throttle body, 3.73 gears.. I just had a catback on at the time. No shame in admitting he's definitely the better driver. He had me to the 60' every time. And each time I'd walk right past time.. 3-0 that night. As for the other two passes.. One was against a highly modified early 90's vette(ran high 11s) and I think the other was against some ricer neon. It was a fun wednesday night.

I can't wait to see it! Minions are my favorite! Those little guys are so damn funny!

NICE! And that movie looks awesome so no judgement here other than you have fun taste in movies!

What about 500 hp V8 in a small CUV? It's coming. Well that is preferred! I just know I don't have glc63 money anytime soon..

The Titanium doesn't seem to be much of an upgrade at all over a standard trim Ford. The MKC is an upgrade over the Escape, but I'm not sure it is worth the price tag Lincoln is asking. That is as much a reflection on how good the Escape is as it is how the Lincoln's interior isn't where I think it should be for a luxury marque. Good to know..good to know.. I would really love 300hp in one of these smaller CUVs. Maybe if I'm lucky they'll make an ST version, or RS because it'll probably be AWD, that'll be pretty quick.

Seriously??? ? Wait.. to test or buy..? lol as a test. There are two journalist events I go to each spring and the MKX will most likely be there. NICE! So far I think it looks fantastic. If I had the money I'd be in an MKC instead of an Escape(albeit a Titanium). From your professional opinion, how much better is a Lincoln over a Titanium trimmed Ford?

Seriously??? ? Wait.. to test or buy..? lol

..We will need a source..

I saw a Lincoln commercial yesterday and they had the MKX in it. I guess they're on dealers' lots. I wonder when we will get to read a review or comparison with the new girl.

I would so remove that as it would look better without it and you would have better ground clearence for real use of what this auto is designed for. They need to remember these are SUV's for use and not a car. If they want to drive them by the dozen for the soccer moms fine and they get lower gas mileage fine also. Just do not loose the functionality of what this auto is all about. This IS the funcionallity of what this is now though. People hauler, stuff hauler, vacationer, fuel economy while doing all of those. These don't get taken off road by 99% of the customers. And the 1% that do won't have an issue getting under there and taking it off on day 1.

I think this looks awesome. I love the changes made to it. +1 GM.

The diamonds stop on the underside, they have to be able to resize the ring afterall! I picked it out. We looked at rings together a few times so I knew what she liked, but I told her I liked other ones so she wasn't expecting this style. She can't stop looking at it, haha. Nice Nice! ..it all depends how much work you want the jewler to do.. anything can be resized! I think it's a good idea for them to not go all the way around though. Makes for less worry on her part that she may ruine or damage the underside doing everyday things. Good job picking it out! I really like that band. That's awesome that she loves it!

Wouldn't no refuleing or tire canges make for less strategy? The best engineers win in F1. Great sport..yet terrible at the same time.

Its a rumor of 13 cars. In truth it could be less than that. Either way even if it is 25 cars.. outta 10,000 ??? Why the do U care? Let Chevy deal with it via warranty.. their money and their reputation. Why are U so concerned??? U buying one in a few days or what? Eassssy man.. Just curious because I don't think I've even heard as many as 13. And in all fairness.. it could be more as well.. like you said though, 0.25%. And I care because this is an outstanding performance car per dollar(heck, not even per dollar. Just outright badass!). But if there is an issue.. it isn't the bargain it is expected to be. Even if it s covered 100% by warranty(and there is no reason to suspect it wouldn't be) it is still a ridiculous hassle for the owner.

Hey Casa, I'm also curious where you got 13 failures from?

13 out of 10,000 is not .84% (or 1 in 120)... I don't understand the math you used. 13/10,000 is .13% or 1 in 769. Perhaps I am wrong.. I came up with those numbers outside of following the methodology used here http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath498/kmath498.htm yanked the other numbers from Autocar I'm not a statistics wizard, but I'm not sure how you found data for all the variables those equations ask for. I just went the simple route: if there are 10,000 Corvette Z06s produced and 13 of them had engine failures, then .13% of LT4s have failed, 1 in 769. Of course, just knowing this was a press model, possibly pre-production, throws off the math too. I think what the statistical formula was finding out would have been on a per/day or per/mile or per/X type of thing based on the opening paragraph of that page. "Suppose we're given a batch of 1000 widgets, and each functioning widget has a probability of 0.1 of failing on any given day, regardless of how many days it has already been functioning. This suggests that about 100 widgets are likely to fail on the first day, leaving us with 900 functioning widgets. On the second day we would again expect to lose about 0.1 of our functioning widgets, which represents 90 widgets, leaving us with 810. On the third day we would expect about 81 widgets to fail, and so on. Clearly this is an exponential decay, where each day we lose 0.1 of the remaining functional units. In a situation like this we can say that widgets have a constant failure rate (in this case, 0.1), which results in an exponential failure distribution." A least that is what it sounds like to me. Which leaves almost any number us non-engineers (with no testing data like a Corvette engine engineer would have) inaccurate.

Wow, I love seeing information like that. Gears, ratios, speed in gear.. That's cool stuff to me. So 6th in your Z51 Stingray will "theoretically" get you to 260mph? That's some Overdrive gear if I've ever heard of one.. One reason that thing can get 30mpg highway if you're taking it easy. And, 68mph in first gear.. LOL That's crotch rocket like gearing.. for first gear. But the Z06's stupid power band makes it so every gear can be nice and tall and not worry about having to shift all the time.

There is no motive, man. If there were a motive I don't think I would have quoted the first paragraph where it was nonstop praise about the incredible performance of the car. Or I would have said something smartass like "you know who" from MT. It's just news.. I thought I'd share because it's been brought up muliple times. Yes, it is first year of production issues but those issues aren't typically issues with engines straight up failing. They are usually stupid electronic things or other little things happening but not usually a 20+k engine failing. Just curious but where are you getting your engine fail % from? Also, I don't care about Vipers..that's why I don't post anything about them. I like Corvettes. EDIT: I see where your numbers came from.. staggered posts..

"There’s no doubt it’s a world-class machine at speed – and at coming down from it. Some high-performance cars can be squirrely when you stomp on the brakes at triple-digit speeds, but the Z06 stays straight as an arrow, even in mixed conditions. Only in the tightest hairpins does it object to your commands in the slightest, eventually bringing its rear end around and then catching it if you don’t. Despite the massive amount of power on tap, it’s easy to find your confidence in this car, and learn a few things along the way. That is, until you reach the end of the road. After a few lapping sessions, the engine in mine unceremoniously called it quits. There was oil, some bits and pieces, unpleasant noises. It was not pretty. The cause? Yet to be determined." http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2015/07/10/2015-chevrolet-corvette-z06-test-drive/ I don't want to start a pissing match because it's been discussed before.. but because it's been discussed before I thought I'd share this link here that I came across yesterday.

I actually don't think it looks as out of place or noticable on this a smuch as it does on the Colorado. But they do sit extremely low. I walked past a new Denali a few months past and I was checkin' it out and I noticed that that front diffuser had to have been only 6 inches off the ground.. But it sat far enough back that it wasn't really noticable like it is on the Colorado.