Nice write up. This is the first Jalopnik new car review I’ve really enjoyed reading.
Did a knight wear armor over his armor to protect his armor?
That’s the best use of that $13 Ikea playmat carpet (or, you know, something close) that every single parent I know has. I want to go to my kid’s playroom and sweep the Hot Wheels and trains off that thing and cut holes for my pedals and gearshift right fucking now.
Can someone get me that gif of excited Chris Pratt from Parks and Rec?
The transmission is behind the engine (duh, I know), and has the diff and outputs for the front axles built into it, so it had to be put way up there. Almost all Audis are this way. Also why pretty much all Audis understeer like crazy.
Yeah! Fuck Science!
Still not a GT40
“We don’t know exactly which model of Corvette this was, so we’re not sure if the kids were in a real, enclosed trunk, or if they were just under the rear glass behind the front seats”
A few quick little points:
If only she’d been better prepared.
Obama also credited Patrick in one of those two speeches in the video, but for some reason that got cut out. Wonder why.
Calling it now.
It takes immense pleasure in making light work of trackday amateurs.
It’s the right kind of silly.
Tell the EPA to talk to the NHTSA. You can have super heavy, super safe caccoon cars, or you can have super lightweight, highly fuel efficient cars, but you can’t have both.
They also stole our (Carfection’s) video to create their fear-mongering b-roll.