It's a mystery to me too! It's really weird how very few places have AC especially in South Europe

I have, and the NYC subway in the author's conditions would be worse. I think the only worse subway system to be on in the summer with no AC would be Paris'.

Carmakers are gaming the system, and they're doing it just so that their cars appear faster in car magazines and Internet arguments. Drive them like a real human being and not some kind of standstill-to-speed-limit robot and you'll see how fast they really are.

Context: How many of those were caused by a preventable defect vs. actual accidents? With this kind of justification, any automaker should be able to shovel shit out the door that doesn't work like it's supposed.

"Put the car in neutral and coast to the shoulder" I seem to recall that this was a GM engineer's justification for why he doesn't think the ignition switch low-torque condition is unsafe...

So this is just used for the Infotainment system? What about the OBD-II port? Is the car's diagnostics and main electrical system still CAN based?

Not even the MGU-H can do that with the performance of the turbos being the way they are. They can already only take a fraction, and convert a fraction of the total energy that the turbos can provide.

They do. Most modern turbochargers have coolant lines and oil lines. Coolant just takes advantage of waste heat to maintain temperatures throughout the rest of the car (thermal management); the oil lines are there for cooling as well but mainly for the journal bearings. So temperatures are well controlled in modern…

This isn't allowed in F1 to begin with. But even if it were, there's not just the efficiency aspect to come into play, but also durability (turbine to the generator? One of the hottest components in the entire car?).

They need to decouple any torsional forces (read: Engine twisting and causing the shaft to bend one way or the other) from affecting the turbo operation, and I'm wondering about turbine sealing. Otherwise, generally it's not really a concern with loss of energy, the bigger concern is the rotational inertial from…

As Sky F1 reports, Mercedes has split its turbo in half. The turbine that takes the hot exhaust gas is at the back of the V6 and the turbine that compresses the cool air is at the front of the engine. The two are linked by some kind of complicated shaft running through the vee of the engine. I mean, I say it must be…

What about not slowing down after his first off? Or leaving coolant on the track which apparently led to more accidents and closing the track for the day? Using a GT3 the way it's meant to be used, to me, is about pushing you and the car's limits... if the car's limits are beyond yours, you drive accordingly. He…

" Do you think that he was intentionally driving beyond his ability? " If you watched the video, he was obviously intent on not letting the Focus RS pass. He was driving recklessly, actually went halfway off the track already, and still did not slow down. This does not constitute common sense and isn't a "mistake" if…

what you said: "at least their owners are using them the way they are meant to be used"

As you said, she was a director (about 4 steps above a release engineer). She became an executive (i.e. a VP) in 2008.

Yes, if you keep them inside the car.

Yeah, too bad he couldn't keep his ego in check; and then after the accident kept driving, leaving a trail of coolant that lead to more accidents.

She was VP of "manufacturing engineering". Not Manufacturing AND engineering. She was in charge of assembly plants, not engineering and quality.

This was completely irresponsible use of any car, whether or not it's a GT3. It's a public tourist day at the Nurburgring, not the 24 hours race. If he wasn't skilled, he should have just let the Focus pass and continued to improve. Instead, he not only crashed the car, but his coolant trail could (and according to…

Yeah, by differently you mean "suck up ego and let Focus pass", he wouldn't have ruined everyone's day