Any air-cooled Porsche qualifies. The rear-weight bias was still quite extreme. If the rear lost grip, you were almost guaranteed to have a nasty crash.

Tesla chose to build the Gigafactory in Nevada. They cannot bellyache after the fact.

Yep. I pity F1 for it’s downforce addiction. They’ve been banning downforce devices and strategies for decades, but they just can’t bring themselves to kick the downforce habit. Motorsport, in general, is on its last legs. Only a few series remain, and their value has been exponentially eclipsed by traditional sports.

It’s bittersweet because MotoGP delivered this kind of entertainment regularly about 10 years ago. Back then, the riders would use different tire strategies, thus, the riders would attack and parry with regularity depending upon the feel from the tires. Occasionally, someone would run away with a race, but even that…

It’s not any better with the top up. The sun beats down on the top, which makes the air at head height almost unbearably hot. So you point the air vents up at the ceiling, and then the transmission tunnel bakes your legs and feet. If you split the climate control, your entire body is uncomfortable. And that’s just how…

Emissions cheating is just the latest installment in VW’s scandalous recent history. VW has been building lovable, unreliable scrap metal for about two decades. When MQB gave VW an opportunity to build affordable “people’s cars” again, VW decided they would burden their new vehicles with unreliable German electronics…

Selective editing? Oh well, I’ll do better next time.

The conservative-wing of the GOP is a symptom of the disease. Yes, it’s a nasty fever with a sniveling runny nose and a rash of hives. Yeah, it’s hideous, but it’s not the virus that is undermining our way of life.

We don’t choose between Right and Farther-Right. We choose between Scary-Right and Pure Apolitical Idiocy.

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Right-hand drive heresy. Strike it from the record books!

Consumer makes the choices indirectly. We dont’ have long-lasting, safe, clean cars because people aren’t really interested in buying them. When the public complains, companies adjust accordingly.

Long-term is just a bunch of short-terms.......at least that’s what they used to teach MBA’s. Lack of long-term planning undermines the going-concern of business, which is the conceptual foundation for virtually all financial reporting and analysis, but that shouldn’t get in the way of a good MBA program.

It’s all about the consumer, who would rather have an illegal vehicle than pay another $350. Similarly, consumers would rather buy cheap garbage at Walmart than have a manufacturing sector to support the lower-middle class.

The sadest thing about Trump is that his platform is how we built the middle class of the 50s and 60s, yet he somehow manages to make it unappealing to the average voter because he doesn’t want to accept that we’re all idiots who’ve been conditioned to vote for vapid political correctness.

Nothing will change. They are as irrelevant now as they will be in 25 years. If you’re hoping for things to get better, you’ll need to wish for something useful.

The sad reality of American politics is that our liberal representatives and our liberal voters are generally the most inferior progressives in the developed world. Conservatives are not a conspiracy, they are a symptom of the disease, a federal government that spends several multiples more than is necessary to…

Guide to US politics: Capitalism and socialism are complementary opposites, not mortal enemies. Capitalism produces resources and material wealth, socialism helps create the people capitalism needs to thrive.

Capitalism is evil. Now, go sell my old donkey and charter a state-of-the-art airplane so I can pontificate to my congregation in America.

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