I was going to ask this. My 7yo would never be allowed to touch games like this (3 weeks of night terrors triggered by MoMo last year made that decision for us). But the article and you seem to indicate that kids in that age range like the franchise? Is it just because it’s “cool” to like scary stuff, even if you…

No way I could... I’ve never driven in one but sat in a few, and I imagine it would be like being four feet tall and trying to drive a Crown Vic.

Can confirm, the Z33 has next to no blind spot visibility (the headrests almost come up to the headliner and the quarter windows are functionally useless), rear is awful (the rear glass is tiny), and even forward is not the greatest (you sit very low in it and the hood is long).

This is basically the exact car that would get me out of my Z today, assuming I had the cash on hand. I’d raise it back up by about an inch, and sell the wheels (spacers are a NO NO for tracking, which is what it would be doing). Lighting is fine as long as the sequential signals don’t look like ebay trash.  NP.

The comparison is not unreasonable. People are curious how the two cars stack up including all of us here, simply because neither car has a peer.

I was going to say this. If future comparos in better conditions and with a newer Model S continue to show that the Taycan outclasses the Model S, then the only thing we can say to that is “well, that was expected.” The Porsche is vastly more expensive. It should destroy the Tesla in every measurable metric based on…

That video is too grainy to tell, but it’s possible that the car was slowed significantly enough by coasting up the hill that the tracks themselves were enough to stop the car from idling over them. It does look like the car was either in park or idling in drive though as the center brake light was not on.

“Any other way that makes sense”?

Heart attack. Seizure. Diabetic/low blood sugar. Dehydration. Stroke. Prescribed medication side effects. Severe allergic reaction.

It looks like he may have just went unconscious and drifted off the road and up onto the tracks. 

Yep, I tend to speak up on these sorts of articles due to some personal history related to the topic.

Patrick’s wording on this article is definitely more critical. Again, that may have been his stance all along and he didn’t have the space to write it out last time, or he may have slightly changed his tone due to…

I’d normally agree with you, however Jalopnik’s writers have shown that they read comments on articles such as this, and even interact with them. In particular, these dangerous public driving articles are usually pretty divisive among the commenting Jalops, and Patrick has replied back as recently as the last article…

Medium Pepperdust Metallic, huh?  I didn’t hear they renamed “Old Person Beige”.

Especially hearing how Patrick describes them weaving around traffic at triple-digit speeds.  This is beyond moronic and I for one can’t wait until it stops getting publicity here.

Do we have any idea how long the game is?  And is there good replayability?

Absolutely. My weekend/track toy is at 103k miles right now, but since I upgraded all of the track-focused bits soon after purchase eight years ago, I haven’t put a dime into it since besides fluids and rubber.  This car should have little to no upkeep assuming you keep the shiny side up :)

Exactly. And this thing isn’t a daily driver. People spending this amount on a nearly 20 year old track-focused two-seater aren’t going to be putting miles on it, they’re going to be tracking it or cruising around on the weekends.  As long as it’s not near the end of it’s usable life (I can’t believe 115k is), the…

While this article specifically talks about “SUVs”, it is part of a bigger jalopnik stance that cars = good, SUV/CUV/Crossover/etc = bad.  See the article they linked here.  If you’re hyper focusing on truck-based SUVs, sure.  But you might as well say trucks.  CUVs and Crossovers have similar weights and mpgs as…

Where is it mandated that an SUV must be heavier than a wagon/hatch counterpart, should they both exist?

Where is it mandated that if an automaker makes a vehicle poorer aerodynamics, they are not able to make up the efficiency in other areas?

Can we PLEASE stop pushing this nonsense. Class of car =/= class of fuel economy. Fuel economy is a function of countless things including engine efficiency, vehicle weight, aerodynamics, wheel/tire size/weight/type, gear ratio...

In no way does class of vehicle contribute to fuel efficiency. There are big cars with…

Hah, I always just assumed it was called a bill because of the shape. A tail is indeed on the back, and duck tails do swoop up like that, but they’re not nice and rounded like we think of a duck bill cartoon-style (Donald Duck, Scrooge, etc).

all to realize that people are so mad that their work may as well all be for naught.