But you’ve driven it (a lot) since September 2015, so the car’s present value is different from what it was last September. If you drive many, many miles, you effectively have to “pay” for the use of the car over those additional miles, which I don’t find unfair.

At no point did they ever say “Oh, we’ll accept your mileage as of the day the scandal became public.”

I strongly suspect Obama will pull the Garland nomination once results are in on Nov. 8th.

The BMW driver is certainly the bigger idiot here, but the dashcam driver is also a total moron. Look at the gap between his/her car and the queue of cars turning left at the next intersection. If he/she had just maintained a standard distance, 5+ cars could have made the left turn before the light went red.

In fairness to Audi, they’ve been doing a 3 tiered approach to each model since 1999, when the B5 RS4 was released. Although they had limited production capability at the Quattro (RS) factory in Neckarsulm until recently (meaning they could only produce 1 or 2 RS models at a time), they’ve had 3 tiers to each of their…

$10.4 billion of it goes to affected consumers, the rest goes toward environmental mitigation/offsetting the pollution from their vehicles. Does not go to the general fund.

There are so many salvage titled Elises (and Exiges) because the entire front end is a single piece, fiberglass clamshell. If you bang it on anything (parking stop, curb, speed bump, another car, a particularly mean leaf) it breaks, and the car is totaled because the replacement clamshell is over $10k.

Taking off that way (slightly slip clutch and let ECU manage revs to prevent a stall) is better for clutch life than any other method of starting the car form a standstill.

Women have the 800, men have the mile. Both of them are distance races, so it doesn’t really matter. You could flip flop them every other Olympics or something, that might be interesting.

None of those are easy changes. The amount of money required to make those changes is not realistic. The expense and public relations risk for each tire manufacturer is way too high to get 3 or 4 to sign a contract.

The 2017 spec cars will reset every single lap record, so there goes that argument.

All F1 cars already have onboard fire suppression systems, it’s mandated by the FIA. http://www.f1technical.net/features/2514

Dyno would be easier, but you don’t have to have it. For example, to collect the data point at 1500 rpm, the procedure would be as follows:

Yeah, PIWIS/VAGCOM/Durametric have an output that is labeled something like “Engine Torque”. It’s not as accurate as a dyno, but can be used to figure out when the engine is at maximum output at a given rpm.

Dyno would be easier, but you don’t have to have it. For example, to collect the data point at 1500 rpm, the procedure would be as follows:

Porsche/Audi/VAG all have a channel that outputs torque values. You would have to be using PIWIS/VAGCOM/Durametric, and not generic OBD software.

It probably wasn’t done using a dyno. PIWIS/Durametrix provides an “engine torque” measuring block.

How do they plan on getting reinforced carbon-carbon brakes to work on the road? The operating window is something like 600F to 3000F. You'll never see that on the road and the brakes won't work.

The more air you have flowing beneath the car, the more downforce it will create. Fast moving air = low pressure = downforce.

You don't have to give up your car at any point. You can keep it and still get the restitution money (without them buying back your car). If you hired an attorney, I'm not sure what happens from here.