Congratulations on your COTD aperson-Hates water spots! Well done!

Well Brt, we don’t roll this out for anyone but you. But instead of beer, brt always requests Tanqueray, and when you’re as celebrated a commenter as you are. You get what you want.

Yes, but I will defer to Torchinsky as the resident inventive repurposer of words for optimal usage examples. =)

I truly hope that two things come from this:

You’re damned lucky, I’m all the way down in AZ, but we’ve been getting Deschutes here since at least 2000 / ‘01-ish. Hence the reason for keeping all the good beers in the fridge. Ambient temps are far too high for leaving them out.

There is actually a complete set of Deschutes’ 2014 Reserve Series, and still most of the 2013’s too. (the door is all Firestone Walker). Most of the bottles lying down on the middle shelf are 2014 Abyss.

COTD is back? Wow.

As a fan of Walter Rohrl, Rod Millen, and countless others, I agree with you in spirit and principle. As someone who appreciates tech and clever engineering, I was incredibly intrigued with Sebastian Loeb’s Peugeot that destroyed the old Pike’s Peak records (paved*).

My bad, that was a misstatement on my part. I’ve always been under the impression that rear engine is that either the center of gravity of the engine, or the engine location period, is located behind the axle, whereas mid is directly over, or inboard from the axle.

If the correct location is roughly on top of the rear axle, rather than inboard from it, why does almost every race car in the world have the engine inboard? I’m not following how this is superior for performance when the mid-rear still maintains a rear bias for weight transfer and applied power but maintains a more…

There has been a losing battle with regard to allowing technology to assist / takeover skills which used to be honed over a lifetime. I won’t even pretend that you are incorrect there. But I mean gear preselect systems have been in place for decades and other technologies are there, and as long as everyone is on a…

Imma side with not just macanamera, but with Jeff Zwart on this one: http://forza5.kinja.com/thanks-for-the…

I’m gonna tend to agree with the guy with the username rennsportv12 on this one. =)

Right there with you. On both counts. Track times are a priority, go with the more responsive option that can mimic a manual when it counts (double paddle pull to disengage the clutch included). And the C63 with a manual? ooooooooh. =)

The engine in the 911 is not in the right place. The engine in the Cayman is. One is mid-rear (Cayman), the other is rear (911). Ideally the engine will be closer to the center of the vehicle with regard to the center of gravity and axle placement.

#cotd

Congratulations on the new job and best of luck. We’ll miss you, but I do wonder (hope) whether we’ll see you over with Sorokanich on the Kinja side of things from time to time.

I take issue with the “Down In Front” portion of your article. I have often been a champion of shorter folks at shows since I was 17 (I’m 40 now). But I’m 6’2”, and I used to show up to concerts early, as in early enough sometimes to arrive before the staff. And I’d like to be clear. If I wait 6-8 hours in line, I am…

Yeah, a couple of months ago my son sent me a picture of a 650S he had spotted at a restaurant. He didn’t tell me what model it was, but it was cleaner than the 12C, and not quite as sublimely perfect as the P1, so I texted him back with “650?”

I seem to recall that this brew tastes and smells vaguely of false citrus (lemon and grapefruit), and that I wouldn’t drink it again based on two bottles purchased months apart from each other (I’ll regularly give a beer a second chance).