They don’t tune their cars to be sports cars or red light scorchers. It should be obvious. They are tuned for optimal real world daily driving; i.e. being responsive (torque!). The 2.5L turbo has 310 ft-lbs available at a mere 2k RPM.

No. 

You are talking about the Ford-Mazda cars. The cars they produce since Ford are an entirely different breed. Google recently released Consumer Reports’ reliability ranking. Mazda is number 3 behind Lexus and Toyota. 

2019 CX-5 will add a trim with the 2.5T.

Hipster blogger, too hip for history.

They got a little lucky. But, that’s racing.

They are committed to IMSA, for now. The move away from MRTI is to free up resources to better focus on the IMSA program. Besides, Indy has almost zero to do with the activities of Mazda corporate. It was a legacy program and made little sense to begin with considering their presence at Indy: zero.

And yet Haas has decided to retain him for ‘19. Where’s the outrage over that?

Nah. You can’t fix stupid no matter how hard you try.

Pfft. Fucking snowflakes. 100 hour weeks are normal in the ad business.

Only worth it if you have a 4k TV that is HDR capable.

Only worth it if you have a 4k TV that is HDR capable.

There is another reason. For inexperienced drivers, or just drivers who don’t much care for driving, the higher height and visibility gives them a [false] sense of security... making a nervous activity more tolerable.

(white people)

Desperation for clicks?

I have trouble imagining any modern boardroom approving something so unhinged. In today’s industry, cars built out of emotion alone quickly get hammered down in favor of sensible profit-making mall-finders.

I work in an ad agency. In the early days just about everyone the the office is a VP. Even those doing grunt work. They didn’t want to pay high salaries, so they gave meaningless titles to lure and fill vacant seats.

From the dimension of “don’t-know-shit-about-anything”.

“Goddammit we are not boring! We don’t make boring cars! Give me sporty version of all the things. Bring me a sporty brick!”–Akio Toyoda

Yet another sensationalist. Yes, Tesla has problems. But, most industry experts agree, they are still far ahead of everyone else. A single offering from Audi or Porsche is not enough to proclaim “Tesla killer”. They are nothing but a single offering. There is no investment in charging infrastructure. There is no…

I don’t think there was ever a single military procurement program that doesn’t follow this pattern. Same can be said of any business or corporation where too many people get to make decisions. It’s the nature of working with other people: everyone has an opinion.