RADIAL FLYER

A MEYERS MANX WITH AN AIRPLANE ENGINE IS A WEIRD FIX FOR SPEED ADDICTION.

BY MATT FARAH

THE PROBLEM WITH DRUGS is that you have to keep doing more and more of them. No matter the drug, no matter how blitzed you get for a while, you eventually need more to chase the same high, until you get fed up, and find yoga, or Jesus, or meditation, and break the cycle of dependence entirely—and find joy. It’s really the same with cars, right? We always want the next thing—the fastest, most powerful cars we can get our hands on, even if such things are wildly impractical for use in our lives and on our roads. At what point is there no point? In time, one may want to exit this loop of performance addiction and instead seek engagement, whimsy, and maybe even a little silliness. The common refrain is…

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