If the VW tuners saw it you known the guys at the other manufactures saw it too.

That’s not the rub I was looking for.

How did that not get stripped for parts at some point?

At this point, really cars past 100k (911 Turbo excluded) , they’re just toys not matter what they tell you. If you were serious about going fast you’d be in your own race car. Not this look at me Ferrari.

Without a torque wrench this is a dangerous proposition. If you don’t know how to change brakes you don’t know how to properly torque safety critical fasteners .

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. The Viper is going away for 2 years, the new version on a more Italian base will be shown on the 2018 auto show circuit

Better for towing, better in traffic, reduced driver load, easier to drive, zero potential for damage from a mis shift. An automatic work vehicle has real advantages.

APR tunes are not great on the TDIs, look at Malone or Rocketchip if you’ve got an older TDI.

Fiesta 1 liter, 43 mpg highway at 80 minimum. I’ve hit over 55 mpg at 70.

Have you driven these tires? I have, after 35k they’re noisy rocks anyway. The 50k+ mile tire is an absolute joke you know that right?

It’s that they made such a minuscule change, then held a press event to tout their great accomplishment is the ridiculous part. It’s a Mazda family sedan, it’s not an FXX shaving thousandths off a lap time at Spa.

“Free” performance without a change to ride quality is a valid reason but if it’s all but imperceptible to…

Fitting a slightly more performance oriented tire would make a significantly large difference than this system. Why waste the engineering time on something so silly?

My good friend who is constantly swapping new Ferraris, Bentleys and Porsches keeps a little written log of mileage, trip type and any major evens like rain, gravel trucks or road debris.

He said it help with resale.

Saw a beat to hell 8v Mk2 GTI parked near me the other night. He was rolling on fresh R888s. It changed my perception immediately.

If the Viper won’t sell in the $80k price range neither will the Corvette. They need to keep the $55k base model around to get people in the door.

Who is making an 8 speed manual?

I’m a professional engineer with 20 years of experience both running a shop and designing parts used by almost every single manufacture.

My free time is far better spent working on the race cars, and collaborating with SAE and ISO standards committees where my efforts make a real improvement in the industry..

Jezebel is that way friend.

Gender has absolutely zero to do with it. I have loved the articles stefschrader and kristenlee have posted because they speak from and informed and experienced position in their posts.

By the time you’re 20 you’ve had a fair number of pizzas, you have some depth to draw on. If you’re writing for Food Network you should have tried a pizza or two from northern Italy, Sicily, New York, Chicago and maybe an odd Korean joint before you try and form an opinion people are going to respect.

Otherwise you get…

Yet you can’t get an Alfa to run reliably. I’m seriously confused.