Congratulations, you just died in the waiting room. I’m going to end this conversation now since the only way you seem to find validation is to nitpick stupid BS on the internet. Enjoy your life!

So if I shoot you in the leg, you’re in the ER, and the nurse says “Doctor, this patient was shot in the leg,” are you going to sit there and correct the nurse “Actually I was shot in my thigh, I think my tibia is broken, and the bullet nicked my femoral artery.” No, you’re going to shut up and let the doctor do his…

So reading through this thread, this was the dumbest semantic argument ever. If calling it “unibody damage” makes you sleep better at night so be it. Nobody else cares.

On the driver’s side, the support just behind the radiator is bent backwards. It’s bent in the area where it attached to the inner fender. If the damage to the inner fender area (which is welded to the unibody) was hit hard enough to bend, it’s easy to see why the car was totaled out.

This thing has frame damage. You can see it in the old auction photos. CP all day long.

It’s amazing how cheap these are right now. Can easily get one in budget and have most of the modern amenities people expect in a car these days. Yeah the interior is not going to be great and there’s a lot of cheap plastic bits, but you’ll be hard pressed finding more truck for less money.

This is definitely how the Fit should look. Less awkward wagon and more hot hatch. Also, throw the Civic’s 1.5L turbo engine in it and give us a Type-R version.

Not quite SPEED but it’s a damn fine start. Who says car culture is dying?

That’s 2025. Can’t shoot your wad TOO early...

Don’t forget the twin engines. One in the front, one in the back, each with a transmission making it the “world’s only true four wheel drive dragster.” And with the special plaid key, you can put one put one transmission in drive, the other in reverse, and try to tear your own quarter-million dollar muscle car in half.

The writing was on the wall a year ago. When Bucky Lasek, Rhys Millen, and Brian Deegan (aka, nearly all of the major US RX stars) all pull out within a handful of months of each other...it’s bad news. Really you could argue the tipping point was losing Ken Block and Travis Pastrana in 2016, but the loss of all those…

What’s weird is it wasn’t even necessary go to the spec cars. Ford, Honda, and Subaru all won Main races last year. I think the lack of OEM support combined with the loss of a lot of teams just killed them off. ARX coming to the US and sucking out the handful of remaining teams was the final blow, but even if that…

Hope Lucas Oil Speedway lets you go to a free oval race then...

Hey now, I went to the Indy race! Me and like...5 other people...

GRC’s problems have been going on for longer than that. They came to the US with big fanfare, but have been losing teams and drivers ever since. Losing superstars like Ken Block, Rhys Millen, and Travis Pastrana (aka the guys who got RX over here in the first place) was a death blow. Then VW came in and their Beetles…

Black cars. I swear this isn’t a race thing (full disclosure I am 100% white). But for me, every single black painted car I have ever been near has been bad luck. Here’s the list:

The pit exit line is a yellow line, followed by a really poorly laid blue line, followed by another yellow line. On TV it’s easy enough to spot, but in the cockpit at nearly 200 while dodging two cars? A little less so. Also keep in mind the pit lane at Long Beach is really long. Cars are already up to speed by the…

This used to not be a penalty. IndyCar should go back to that. Street circuits are way too narrow as it is to be forcing drivers to keep to the side of a line (a line that’s really poorly marked I should add!). At least that gave us the delightful spite pass Bourdais made after he was forced to give Dixon the position…

It’s impressive how cohesive the plot was. The US team could not alter the animation in any way and they had no audio, so it was all made up with what they had. Cool story, but made for a very weird and fun show.

Speed Racer was great. It was goofy, it was fun, and it perfectly adapted an over-the-top cartoon world into real life. The people who thought the cartoon was better need to actually re-watch the cartoon: it’s bad. The entire US adaption was written by ONE person and voiced by about 3. It’s fun, but it’s bad. The…