It is incredibly ironic, I feel, that you can buy a new Audi R8 with a good old fashioned, solid steel, open H-gate gearshift, but you cannot buy a new Ferrari with the gearshift they helped make the object of boyhood dreams. Well at least my boyhood dreams. Ferrari don’t even make a manual transmission for this car.

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It seems like there’s a bit of trouble at the Chrysler stables. Plans to launch the revived model of the popular Dodge Viper have been stalled, at least for the time being. The news comes from Street Racing Technology CEO Ralph Gilles who has been quoted as saying that Chrysler is having trouble finding suppliers to build elements for its high-end model.

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For those with enough money to buy new rubber every two weeks, how about some serious drifting examples? Check out a Nissan 350Z Turbo against a Dodge Viper on the drifting wall in New Jersey. Boy these guys know what they’re doing. And the cars, they look … but better not talk about the cars. Just watch!

Be safe and don’t do that on the roads. Go for a track field instead!