Soldiers have been raping women since the first war was fought.
It definitely happens less today than at any other point in history. To call it an epidemic today is ridiculous. In the middle ages, it was accepted as a regular consequence of war. Hell, as recently as the Napoleonic wars it was accepted, and to a lesser…

Yep, the wording, namely the use of investigation is what threw me.
I get what you said about it being SOP for them to assign a cause of death, but I pictured the cops hauling the race car to a lab somewhere and disassembling it looking for the cause of the crash, and that's a waste of taxpayer money quite frankly.

I…

No, I'm just saying that the police are hardly the most qualified people to determine why a race car failed. Cause of death and investing the car to determine why it crashed are two separate things.

Cause of death being "Crashed in race car during race; blunt force neck injury" seems more than adequate, as opposed to…

You're aware that picture is done by an artist whose usual medium is dirty cars, right? Hell, if I'm remembering right, I found out about the guy from Jalopnik.

That's not actually real. People with volvos don't get laid.

I feel like I'm missing something here.

Come to think of it, you're the one who keeps shifting the conversation, but you say I'm moving the goalposts. Your original post was explain all the other brands that haven't fallen into this trap. I said torque, honda doesn't have it, everybody else does.

Then you carried my saying the integra wasn't the best…

A 300 lb (swap adds weight to a miata, not an Rx7 though, turbo II engine/trans weighs the same as a ls1/t56 combo) weight advantage more than offset by the fact that the FC has a drag coefficient equal to a Z06 (.27, vs a miatas .38) with a much smaller frontal area. The FC also fits much bigger tires, I run…

Unless you're a necrophiliac, Saab won't be sucking anything

Handling and speed are two different things, those cars are slow.
And both of them are going to get lapped repeatedly by my daily driven LS1 RX7.

Have you looked at how much an MX5 weighs vs a 90s miata? They've gained 400 lbs. That basically proves my point. It also happens to be about the difference between a 90's civic and today's civic.

And both those cars are ridiculously slow, my truck would walk them both in a race and I couldn't stand to drive either.

Weig…

I told you I don't like Honda, I'm not arguing for them.

And the integra severely lacks power, it's not like the Cobalt has it in spades. I couldn't stand driving it until I put the STG1 kit and plugged my HPtuners into it.

Better tires is canceled out by the 15 years of the government putting bullshit into cars. The…

Oh, yes, fox bodies don't stand up to abuse well at all.

That's hands down uglier than a fox body.
And I'm not a ford fan at all to be defending them. But they definitely did a better job.

Italian design is often lol, quite frankly.

It doesn't matter if it's the ECM or a separate system doing it.

It's not "just good engineering" it happens to be how every major OEM in the world does traction control. It's not a separate box, it's built into the engine management.

The way this article is written, and especially the quote from Axis, I don't feel like there is a good understanding of modern engine management here.

See, a few people like you are very vocal about that on the internet, but the fact is that the sales data that Ford has access to and you don't doesn't show that your average Australian actually cares.

Don't get me wrong, I'm one of the people who cares, but the fact is most people don't.
You're losing RWD for the same…

Eh, I disagree on some of that.

First, McPherson struts. Yeah, they suck (unless you've got that neat new-wave mcpherson strut deal like the new Regal where there is an upper ball joint as well), but plenty of extremely good handling cars use them. BMW always did, although maybe that's changed recently. SA/FB and FC…

Uhh, have you looked at the average weight of cars? It's not going down.

It's just that unlike honda, not everybody was relying on torqueless high revving motors to make lightweight cars fun.

People who made engines that actually make some tq and hp can move a heavier car around, whereas the Civic SI's 207 hp in the new…

You know, I was going to say something in my reply about women getting better prices from male advisers/mechanics in person, but I decided against it. Fact is, though, it's true. A woman asks "can you make that cheaper?" and they'll try. A man they won't even bother, just "Nope, that's the price, sorry."

As somebody in-industry, here is my view.

"But when you show that stereotype is wrong"—because you reveal yourself to be an informed woman or an uninformed man—"you get treated the same way," says Busse.

This sentence is poorly punctuated/written. I can't tell if they're saying that informed women get treated like your…