I, wait...are we really drawing distinctions between “It wasn’t 88%, it was 83%,” and, “So and so voted with Trump 60% of the time,” when that 60% was for continuance of funding or pass-fail bills that benefitted Democratic constituents and concerns.

Are we really doing that? Less than, what, forty-eight hours apart?

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Right on man, I hate that attitude too. Apropos to your point, I spotted this car on the road this afternoon, and low and behold, it pulled into the same parking lot as us.

I never trust the ratings. I read the reviews.

I love reviews from people who’ve clearly never traveled before. They go to Europe and give the hotel one star because they had “some sort of weird plug and i had to buy an adapter, and then my curling iron melted because they have some weird electricity,” or “they wouldn’t take dollars” (at a restaurant in France.…

100%

It’s a Cat skid steer, not a Bobcat, dammit....

The USA spends about 16% of its Federal budget on defense. A much lower percentage than it spends on things like Medicaid and Social Security. This is ironic, considering defense is one of the few things government at the Federal level is constitutionally SUPPOSED to spend money on.

I look forward to the APR version which will no doubt bang out upwards of 500 horsepower.

Yup. And they’re all basically using the same motor as the GTI just with a different turbo and some other tweaks. And the GTI version makes 300HP with just a chip tune. So doesn’t surprise me they can find 400.

As a network engineer, I do everything in UTC.
DST exists punish users for buying software written by bad programmers.
I really, REALLY wish we’d just make the switch. Airlines and the military get it right with this.

Agreed—this daylight savings stuff is too confusing.

“Horton, Here’s a Poo!”

But without a rigor mortise we can’t insert the rigor tenon and create a nice wooden rigor joint. How are we going to build this rigor frame without it?

Now dark skinned emojis are a problem?

Considering you can have a car with 2 more doors, 2 more wheels driven for a total of 4, 65 more HP and over 100 ft-lbs more torque for the same price as the base BRZ FROM THE SAME DEALERSHIP...it’s just stupid to think you can have a WRX STI which offers 100 more HP, 2 more doors etc. for the price of this tS model.

It’s really not, in every day life - at least for me. It’s pretty obvious when you go looking for it in a test drive, but in practice 4-4.5k rpm just isn’t a rev range you use: you’re either cruising and south of 3, or in a hurry, 3 gears down, and north of 5.

That’s exactly what I’m saying. Cars that are very common, driven by people who are not special and who do not really care about cars, qualify as an “everyman” car. A Miata costs the same as an Accord. A Miata is not an “everyman” car, though it can be had for the same price as the far more practical “everyman” Accord.

Can attest. My daily is a 2015 GTI (first year of the new platform) that is bone stock except for a stage 1 APR upgrade and some better consumables (tires/pads/brake fluid), but even with just that it’s more than enough car for me. I love it and I think I’ll drive it ‘til it dies.

On Saturday I went to a Cars and Coffee event. A local British roadster club showed up, complete with a host of Spitfires and one gorgeous TR6. Look at that little Spitfire’s 1.2. It’s just teeny. Why would anyone give it such a small engine?

As an owner, I can say this: “The BRZ isn’t the sports car you want, it’s the sports car you deserve.” I use it for track days and am not sure I really want 300-400hp in a car before I really know what I’m doing. On the street, that extra power would be useless anyway. I’ll take the 30+mpg in a great handling car…