Category: Car and Driver

Highlights? Many. Lowlights? Well…. Maybe this outfit?

If you get stranded in a washed-out ravine in the middle of the Utah desert, you should call Rory–and Trail Mater.

Click on the thumbnail above, to view a crappy scan of my story in the Feb/March issue of Car and Driver, or just buy the magazine on the newsstand, you chintzy bitch.

“Like many car enthusiasts, I saw SSC’s original video, had questions about the speed claims, and wondered why they didn’t use a VBOX to validate their extraordinary top speed,” Lau said. “Unlike many car enthusiasts, I found myself on a runway in Florida with our equipment installed on that very car just a few months later.”

“I think there’s a certain…egotism to the tech industry,” says Alex Davies, transportation editor for Business Insider and formerly for WIRED, and the author of Driven.

“Did you know this supercharged 1988 Riviera was owned by that guy who voiced Crackle, from the Rice Krispies commercials?”

And, boy, does it ever.

Wherein I pretend to understand how an internal combustion engine works.

“I think we added a lot of fancy content to create these Maybach versions,” says Wagener.

“Nobody knew who we were,” Jerod said. “I decided that this top-speed record would be a good way to get mentioned in the same sentence with Bugatti, Koenigsegg, and Ferrari.”

“You can be a success in most things if you put in enough effort, but we all fail in our effort to go home again.”