For once, it’s not arguing that they cause people to be violent.

It still really baffles me that we made such a major leap pushing EVs when well-worked out EV/gas hybrids would fit most everyone’s needs and still do a very good job at reducing greenhouse emissions. Sure historically EV/gas hybrids have incredibly short range on full EV, but the technology has been advancing so…

I’m often flabbergasted by questions like these because many of your typical run of the mill banks will actually finance you with really good terms. I can get a loan on anything I want (as long as it’s up to the NADA, which can be a challenge with older cars whose street-market value has yet to catch up with it’s…

I have to take these sort of studies and figures with a grain of salt. Not long ago I read a study that stated that neutral colors such as silver, white, and black were the colors you WANTED as they’re the sort of colors that “go with everything”. Ultimately they’re utilitarian in nature. Bright yellow or lime green…

I was trying to find it through all my Fiero literature I have lying around, but 1984 model Pontiac Fieros at one point - I’m not sure if this has changed or not - had one of the largest single-stamped pieces of magnesium used in automotive construction. 1984 model Fieros had a large center magnesium center vent over…

Japan is a superbly strange place for car culture. It’s very difficult to stand out in a land where there is a exceptional disconnect between the extremely wealthy and the lower tiers of society in a land that similarly has a difficult problem balancing the wants of new against old and tradition. There’s not many…

It is a little surprising he didn’t finish the season out. However he probably wants to peace out now before the C8R is relegated to more general international GT3 rules for next season, in addition to GM not yet having announced if they’re actually going to field cars in the upcoming GTD PRO. They’re supposed to…

I don’t know how personally I would seriously take Matt Smith’s advice. Unless you just absolutely need a replacement vehicle I don’t know how much I would “settle” on things I did not want, especially buying new. I personally had plans to replace my ten year old daily driver this year that I’ve had since new. However…

According to the docket, that tape was—at the time—worth just under $60. (Yes, the price for rental tapes was very high in the ‘90s.)

I offloaded an old Samsung LCD TV from 2010 that I had sitting in a spare room and honestly I’m rather shocked at how far TVs have come along in just a decade. I have a 60" Samsung thats just a few years old, and it’s so lightweight and thin I’m scared I could break it at any second if I so much as touch it. The 2010…

Toyota has always been like this with modern info-tainment setups.

I’ve been watching anime for over thirty years and was pretty skeptical about the show’s popularity, but I watched every episode leading up to this movie and enjoyed it tremendously. The fights and combat are very 90s movie/OVA style, a.k.a. Ninja Scroll -esque, and the animation as a whole is absolutely superb. A lot…

One of the things people need to realize about old Ferrari race cars is the factory still actively supports them, especially through the Clienti program, so this car will easily be re-furbished and put back on the track. The other cars in the field? Many of them were likely a hodge-podge of all sorts of parts that…

There wasn’t a lot of advantages on reds over blacks, and with there being at the least two stops lent some interesting tactics throughout the field. There were tons of position swapping all over the field; a far cry from last week at Barber. It was a pretty eventful race other than up front.

There’s a four letter word that Formula One could, you know, either get really close to or just outright follow and avoid this sort of thing, but then people wouldn’t be able to spout off the romanticized bullshit that gets pushed in pursuit of some sort of extremely weird justification for how much it costs to host…

I’ve never understood the Doom’s community relative hatred for Doom 3. I remember when it came out and it really jarred me at times. Additionally it’s atmosphere still holds up really well as a FPS game.

It’s pretty simple. If you want to actually play the game(s) and you own it/them, you have a backlog. If you own it and you don’t care to play it or don’t have plans to play it, then don’t consider it part of your backlog. It’s status of how it was acquired, if it’s a remaster or remake, or if it’s some sort of online…

The later Corvettes actually do this. My C5's wipers when you turn them off have a “resting” position that’s lower than where they sit when they’re at the low point of operation. This position is just a smudge above the hood line horizontally and out of viewpoint of the windshield.

I was at Barber last week, I have both shots of the Pfizer vaccination for some time now, and I felt pretty safe at the track. People tend to forget that at most major large tracks the ability to social distance is MASSIVE, even if stands are present. Indycar also did a pretty decent job of mitigating transmission…

I even have a difficult time considering Berseria to be angsty. It’s more revenge driven than angst, considering most every character in the game has a revenge plot or grudge. I also believe the game is criminally underrated, and for a NA release Bandai Namco did a superb job with the title.