To be clear, he was headed UP the course, right?

No, if you were going to buy it in the UK and export it to the US, you would not have to pay VAT on it. That is ~20% of the price.

I never said you must accept it, only that the Japanese have often prioritized manufacturability and engineering over hand-crafted artisanship in their cars, and that there is beauty in it.

Classic Porsches always had a cool bathtub vibe to them. It doesn’t work so well upside down.

You get a 5-second penalty! You get a 5-second penalty! You get a 5-second penalty! Everyone gets 5-second penalties!

I bet that Putin loves hanging out with Bernie because Bernie is one of the few people shorter more deplorable than he is.

Nah the grille won’t matter how well this new Z will sell, it’ll all be about how it’s priced.

Fair point, but if he tried to suddenly could liquidate $30 billion worth of TSLA it would almost certainly crash the stock. He could probably pull it off and TSLA would likely recover but if he can find someone else to pony up the dough why wouldn’t he?

You have put more thought into this comment than any of the engineers at GM put into the Cavalier. 

Musk doesn’t have $170 billion. Yes, he’s filthy rich, but come on here, he doesn’t have $170 billion. When you guys say shit like this, it undercuts your argument. It comes off as you being disingenuous, so what other things are you being disingenuous about that I might not realize?

Because the demand-to-supply ratio for the Kia makes it a more valuable vehicle in the current market, apparently. The Telluride is immensely popular and I’m not surprised they’re more of a hot ticket item than the Highlander.

1st gear: Tesla is already an odd corporate animal unto itself but it repeats what is a general US business phenomenon and in my opinion something of a repeating mistake. I’ve worked for three US firms, each time setting up their first leg into Canada. Without fail, these businesses just plunked themselves down and…

Has a video game ever influenced an entire market the same way Gran Turismo has? I could say that perhaps Initial D (and the related TV show) inflated the values of late 80s AE86 chassis cars... but Gran Turismo has turned an entire fleet of Japanese cars into unobtainium.

I think Russell is still a Mercedes junior driver, which means that if he leaves Williams, any discount Williams gets on Mercedes’ technology, received in exchange for giving one of their drivers a seat, will go with him. More expense for Williams.

I stand by about 90% of Reloaded. Take out the orgy and tighten up some of the talky parts and it’s a fantastic movie. (I guess, if you’re picky, improve the SFX from the Burly Brawl but I justify that in-Universe by noting that they’re already in a simulation.) It’s still, to me, a sequel that is essentially worthy…

*When properly equipped with equipment that doesn’t exist yet. 

My car will go 200 MPH when properly equipped with a bigger engine and a pair of turbochargers.

That’s historically been WEC, which for some reason IMSA has a difficult time understanding. Part of the whole reason why GTE Pro and GTE Am exists is that you have mostly professional drivers in GTE Pro and for GTE Am yeah there are drivers that are very much professional but you have teams such as Proton Racing…

Agree and disagree. Without knowing his enthusiast cred, it’s important to have someone with knowledge of and passion for cars. Ferrari’s swag business only works because people love the F1 team and find the cars highly desirable. They can’t afford to have either one flounder long-term.

Counterpoint: There is no such thing as a “structurally sound” X1/9. They rival Alfasud’s for rusting speed. These are arguably the worst Fiats ever produced.

Most cars are more reliable than people say. One person has a bad experience, repeats it to someone else, that second person picks it up as a lazy joke, repeats it ad nauseam on a motoring site [in times past, in the letters page of a magazine] a comic stuck for a joke picks it up [and exaggerates it] and says it on…