Mountain lions are definitely not out of their league with a wild boar, I’m not sure where you are getting that from but it’s certainly not true. Yeah they might not be as big as an African lion but mountain lions are still incredibly efficient killers and for an unarmed human to survive an attack is pretty…

I think I would puma pants.

Fuck that. It was designed from the ground up as a lightweight, well balanced, RWD sports car with a low CG.

You better hope she (Beyonce) wins the suit, because Gizmodo isn’t flying right either...

“It’s a small step for the rover, but one giant leap for the Chinese nation”

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.

Squirrelwind!

You’re talking about universal gun registration, either literally or de facto. It would be impossible to achieve with 300,000,000+ guns already in circulation. Even a 1% non-compliance rate would still mean 3 million unregistered guns , which is a LOT considering there’s only about 11,000 gun homicides per year (and…

Let’s get real for a moment. Let’s say you’re in a bank and a man comes in wearing a mask and wielding a gun. He fires off a few shots at the ceiling. He grabs the bank manager and put the gun to his head and yells out a stream of threats that he’s going to kill the manager and then shoot everyone in lobby.

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.…

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.

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…