Neutral: How Bad Will This Get For Honda?

Neutral: How Will This Change Things For The VW Group?

Bask in the liability maybe.

When you land a fighter jet on it’s fuselage, feel free to tell us how much courage and bravery it doesn’t take.

Once upon a time, qualifying age was older than average life expectancy. It is an income insurance program that has morphed into the most debauched public pension in the OECD. I appreciate that you don’t like forced insurance or Ponzi schemes but virtually all private pension are tax subsidized and tax-deferred. If…

Don’t be a shill. Honda have no presence in the truck segment. Very little presence in the SUV segment. They never developed any competency in the off-road segment. They have no identity in the dedicated hybrid segment, though they were one of the first companies to market.

And some day every great skyscaper is going to collapse or be demolished for the next great thing, but how much potential profit and brand equity did Honda lose by failing to strike when the iron was hot?

Honda is like the perpetual bear investor. The market is going down. The market is going down. I don’t need to invest in that superfluous equity over there.

Isn’t there some urban legend about Acura demanding a V8 so fervently that Honda Japan sent them a case of V8 juice?

No, but you’re saying it’s okay to commit generational theft, if the government makes you buy insurance.

I’m as red blooded as the next American, but this is all about selling race cars.

Desmosidici was not a competition bike. It was just for collectors, and Ducati ended up making nearly 1500 becuase the bike was underpriced.

It’s difficult to know what to make of the RCV-213V. The price is absurd for a collectors bike, but if this is supposed to be a throwback to the old homologation specials and GP production bikes, the price is right.

Red Bull gives you wings, not skills :(

Before electronic aids, the engineers were limited by human performance. Human beings are limited in how fast they shift, how much grip they can steer at the front wheels, how much power they can harness with a clutch, how much feel they can get from rock hard suspension, and limited by the physical stamina of the…

That’s not what I’m arguing. I’m arguing that some people can be goaded into letting engineers remove the driver from some of the critical parts of driving. Track-versions of ABS, PDK, lots of electronic spin/yaw/traction control systems, etc.

Someone at Porsche demonstrated that a machine can drive/shift better than you can, and they promised to build a better mousetrap if they remove you from most transmission operation. You fell for it, even though the point of track days and competition is to test yourself against other people and develop your own…

TWR Silk Cut Jaguar XJ-9 stealing a victory from Porsche in 1988

You’re collecting on a public insurance policy, and reaping the rewards of tax subsidized private retirement. You’re only screwed in your own mind. Yes, they took away your ability to choose, and then they delivered an unsustainable windfall that is crushing the federal budget.

Then don’t undermine your driving acumen by suggesting that paddle-shifting DCT is an appropriate transmission for sporting amateur track days or professional competition. It is nothing more than engineers inserting themselves into the cockpit because they can design a machine that is better than a human.