There were a bunch of other things that just made me scratch my head and ask “why” on that car.  If you compare under the hood of a Ford and GM, it’s apparent that GM likes to stick with what works and Ford likes to redesign everything as often as possible.  I’m sure a lot of this pays off, but some of it you look at…

I’ve heard some horror stories about some of GM’s newer FWD cars, but I haven’t had to work on any of those. My disdain mostly comes from when I owned a 2005 Explorer and Ford decided they didn’t want anybody checking their own transmission fluid so they didn’t put a dipstick in it. That was also the transmission that…

Bland is good.  I was wondering who would be the first to step back from the war on sanity that half-ton trucks have been waging, but I didn’t expect it to be Ford.  Good for them, this is a good-looking truck.

Inside, Ford has joined the rest of the truck market by introducing a huge 12 inch screen. Included with that screen is a digital owners manual with how-to videos, because we’re visual learners now. Thanks YouTube!

You could maybe believe that this was all just an unfortunate coincidence, but consider that NASCAR felt the need to search every garage at its tracks because there might be nooses in them. Totally normal stuff.

Suspicious that some of this may be aesthetic, but then again, I can’t imagine there’s much room in there for aesthetics.

You realize that those regulations don’t actually cut down on any costs, right? All they do it force manufacturers to spend even more on R&D to find ways to create speed that aren’t already regulated. I won’t go so far as to say that the regulations make things more expensive, but they definitely have not had the…

Pretty soon you won’t have Toyota to watch at all, and I don’t blame them.  Frankly I’m surprised they stuck around this long.

Look, neither of us are going to change each other’s minds on this, so I’m not going to bother arguing. I’ll just point out that you’re making a pretty big reach, and going after trivial non-issues rabbit trails like this just distracts from legitimate concerns that actually exist.

“Pure blue” wouldn’t make any sense, since blue follows a pretty wide spectrum from teal through violet, same with red. White can have a bunch of different tints added to it to make it more grey, bluish, reddish, off-white, or whatever. Saying “pure white” implies it does not have any tinting whatsoever and is as…

The reduction in hybrid energy expended per lap between the 2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons is not a result of success handicap. Similarly, Toyota is required an extra second per pit stop, and no longer has a fuel economy advantage over the non-hybrids as they’re regulated to run the same amount of laps per stint, even…

That’s going pretty far, “pure white” is a common paint color.  You wouldn’t want your car to be “mostly white but there are some random specks of stuff that fell in”, would you?

Wait wait wait, can I not make the “OK” sign anymore? Now I have to go look up what the actual racist version is to make sure I don’t get beat up for signing to someone that they did a good job? Ugh, I hate people.

This would be the usual thought, but right now is definitely not the time to be releasing something like that.

I’ve only seen the one screenshot of the ad, but I’d probably have the same reaction. Some dude didn’t want anyone close to his car, so he moved them away with his white power hand.

If we could figure out a way to allow innovation and creativity while also having a cost cap I’d be all for it.  Bradley is right that GTE has basically priced itself out of existence, and as a manufacturer why would I want to participate if no matter how much I spend on my car its success will be determined by the…

Nah, you’re getting your comments mixed up.  The C6 homemade spoiler was someone else’s comment.  The guy I replied to was talking about the C8's wing, which looks terrible.

While I see where you’re going with this, I would ask what’s the motivation for manufacturers to actually participate at that point?  Racing has to have some sort of payoff where you have the opportunity to show you build a better car that someone else.  Balance of Performance already borderline neutered any…

GTE should have been rolled into one large “Hypercar” category to bring back a semblance of GT1's glory days but with a cost cap.  Leave LMDh or whatever they’re calling it as a more cost-effective class with speed, but Hypercar is what people really would want to watch.  I want to see actual street-based cars from…

And yet it still looks terrible.  Also it’s not a high performance spoiler it’s a “high mount” spoiler.  It’s just for looks, and it looks awful.