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Kids, Fire is Awesome

11 February, 2012 9

by Zack K

 

Despite what your parents and some 60 year-old shirtless bear (do not Google) have told you, fire is awesome. In Top Gear’s latest episode we learned the Aventador shoots blue fire under WOT. Constantly. Not on the over-run or during a downshift or just for a split second; it shoots fire like Batman’s car. Like an F-16 hitting the afterburner. Just fire, fire, fire, fire! It was a fantastic display of cool (If you haven’t seen it, do.). The ultimate signal lamp that you’re driving a bad-ass car. Truly fitting for a Lamborghini. How else do you make that car more striking?

 

It’s the same reason I’m in love with Roberta Mancini. She’s drop dead, hit-myself-in-the-face-with-a-hammer beautiful but what puts her on my pedestal is that she’s a champion skydiver. Hot Italian woman with an adrenaline addiction? Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Fire from a car elevates the extraordinary by way of something silly, dangerous, rare, and exciting. I mean, it’s fucking fire. If anyone says you’re being stupid, remind them of our deep connection to fire that goes back millions of years. Cavemen would love the Aventador.

 

Our ERA kit cobra shoots fire when you down-shift or let off over 4,000 RPM. It’s because it’s running too rich. Don’t care. Driving at night near the concrete freeway divider I let off, and wait for that blue burst of light to splash from the side pipes to the barrier. It causes me to cackle like the Wicked Witch, every single time. It’s how “adults” like me get the giggles. Cars aren’t supposed to do that, and that makes it special. Some may think it’s childish or silly. They’re right. But who is happier than children? Adults usually aren’t (Paxil, Zoloft, Lexepro, Prozac, Abilify, Bolvidon, Norval, Tolvon, Lustral, etc, etc etc). Maybe we should prescribe a day with cars that shoot fire-like the BMW M1 above- instead of chemicals that cause us to eat while we’re asleep, or die.

 

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  • OmarCCX

    I can't help but smile everytime I hear a backfire popping sound in my econobox first car. Even in 5th gear.

  • Chris430

    They said it was a BMW M1 at the bottom of the article…

    • http://www.thesmokingtire.com Zack

      Thank you Chris. Saves me the response, although I wasted a damn good eye roll.

  • TX_Stig

    You know, that's something I just don't get. A large number of the current generation of car guys don't want their exhausts to pop or crack like that. At all. What gives? Especially on motorcycles, that is one of the greatest sounds in all of automobilia. And when you know the exact conditions to get that glorious racket and can repeat them at will, life is good indeed.

  • Rob

    My '72 MG Midget did the same thing when engine braking….poppity pop pop, belching flames and all….Good times….

  • orient10bar

    I wonder if there's a mod that'll make my Kizashi do that. I'd be the talk of the Hy-Vee parking lot.

  • MattC

    My parents bought a Ford Fairmont for my brother (his first car). It had the anemic carbureted 2.3L Lima engine that propelled this monstrousity is glacial speed. However, later in the car's life it would backfire and let out a little belch of fire from the exhaust. This was a special revalation for teenage kids driving a formally despised car and it works wonders on the city streets of Baltimore (not that I would advise it now, but a backfire would usually have people ducking for cover. This was Baltimore after all)

  • Bill

    Don’t forget the greatest flame thrower of all time….the modified wankel.

  • rob from vermont!

    ^^^^ lol yup my 82 rx7 can shoot a fire ball so big I can see it out the rear window!