superfastmatt
Matt Brown
superfastmatt
Matt Brown is an automotive engineer, writer, and builder of unconventional things. Mostly vehicles.

Me too buddy, me too.

I thought that was off the Odyssey platform. Read more

Given how many times I ended up in an argument in the comments of Jalopnik with someone who was certain Tesla was a sham that was going to fail, I have to say that it feels good to read this article. Not as good as it feels to look at my etrade account with all those TSLA shares I bought three years ago, but good Read more

Call me a masochist, but I love the check engine light. It tells me that there is a code that will likely give me some indication as to why my POS is being a POS. I actually get angry when the engine isn't running right and I get no light. Read more

That's a crazy place. There is a whole neighborhood of fake houses there that they used to use for filming. Read more

For instance! Did you know that they once dragged a Dodge Viper GTS against a Ferrari F40? Only Best Motoring could pull that kind of shit off, I swear to God. But as good as the Viper is, this isn't really a fair fight, and it ends the way you think it would. Read more

This would be a great car for all the high school girls who will be needing a graduation gift that they can drive to college for six months before dropping out and then driving it to their stripper gig for four months before trading it in for a 1992 Pontiac Sunbird and $4000 of cocaine and tattoo money. Read more

His rear suspension is all like

When I grow up, I'm going to start a creative design business, call myself the Creative Director, and just start pulling ideas out of my ass with total disregard for economics or physics. Read more

An olive. I put an olive in my 12V socket. My typo made COTD. Read more

I don't know, I kind of just poured my martini into the socket. Read more

I put olive in my 12V socket and it didn't work. Prepared to be sued, Torchinsky. Read more

Because I am too lazy to read your comment, I'm just going to say that you're wrong. Read more

Literally the best book ever written by anyone ever. And it's free!

If you're pulling 8 lateral gs in an airplane, you're gonna have a bad time.

I don't know what's with all the speculation about the cause and the denial of racing. Fluid leak theory supported by a fire in the front of the car? Five to six minutes is not enough time to be racing? Maybe they were shot by the second gunman on the grassy knoll. The car hit four trees and a light pole and was Read more

I'm thankful that I'm still alive.

GPA is kind of a bad analogy. Think of it as a Pentathlon. Each event gets a score and you add them up to a total score. There is no perfect score in a Pentathlon, because in theory, you could run 200 meters as quick as zero seconds (as easily as a frontal impact in a car could result in zero gs to the occupants). Read more

5 stars is not perfect, it is an arbitrary function of things like driver g loading and occupant cell intrusion. 5.4 is safer than 5. They're basically just saying "You can't advertise anything but the arbitrary integer scale we made up." Read more

You're talking about the lack of horrendous body gaps in that second gen Viper, right? Read more