I drove a Mk8 GTI and really didn’t like it. Maybe the things I really like about the R will outweigh all of the things I don’t like about the new one, but we’ll see. VW is pretty clearly looking at a different market segment with this car, and it just doesn’t happen to be mine.

I started to go through this point by point, but CarPlay and (physical) buttons will be better and far safer for me in virtually every case. Remains to see how much of this and how much will be on chip and how much will be cloud-based. amyy default assumption is that VW will be using this to train their systems on my…

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“Faze.” We’ve been over this, Jalopnik.

This COMPLETELY ignores the effect of “apparent wind,” which is the basis for the most modern sail racing. As the boat moves forward, the sailor begins to feel “the wind in his face” along with the true wind. These two vectors are additive, meaning that the airflow across the sails is now stronger than the wind…

I don’t get that at all. This is a LOT of money in photography alone, even get out some crimpers.

That won’t matter, any accident involving a modern vehicle is going to turn the occupants of cars like this into paste anyway. There are a bunch of cars like this I’d want to own, a Big Healey comes to mind, but I just don’t think they are survivable anymore on today’s American roads. Really disappointing.

The Aussies have champs as well:

It’s hot outside, so we could all use a laugh. Let’s check the credentials of the alleged government expert selected by Fox News to wax philosophic for the good people of America. Was he the Administrator of the FAA? An Associate Administrator? Even a Division Director, with decades of practical experience that should…

Your anecdotes may be true. They are also irrelevant. We don’t choose our language based on percentages, and I don’t especially care what you honestly expect. We choose language so that each and every member of the community is equally respected and offered equal dignity.

Back in the day, Cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) referred to the women of the first classes of female Cadets as “cockpits.” It was a clever term, it amused many, it was already extremely fucked up at the time, and did great damage that we’re beginning to undo only fairly recently.

“Betteridge’s law of headlines.”

Crowdsource the legal bills, Emma, I’m very much in.

Hungary: also pretty dumb. So it’s us and Hungary.

Yeah, tbh, if he’s driving 24 mph over the limit on 70 and 76 in PA he’s getting passed.

Virginia is an “Implied consent” state - you consented to being tested when you got your license. You can refuse to take the test in the field. If you’re arrested, though, refusing to take the more complete test at the station is a civil offense. 1st time, lose license for a year, in addition to anything that came…

I’m starting to think that I’m only here for the dopamine hit I get from hate-reading this stuff.

Well said.

Wats are in no way better than Minilites, they just have marketing that’s more furious. Among other reasons, it is written that you can put Wats only on Japanese cars, but you can correctly put Minilites and Panasports on any car ever made.