Fast cars and beautiful gearboxes
Just now I read the HowStuffWorks article on the Bugatti Veyron works. That lead me to the article on sequential gearboxes, and then, just to get some background, the articles on clutches and manual transmissions. Maybe I'm a geek (or maybe I just don't want to do my taxes).
Aside: I probably should feel like more of a dork than I do for continually reposting stories I see on slashdot.