This looks like it will be like every other “reality competition”. 45 minutes of family backstory and bleeding heart crap with 15 minutes of quick-cut competition at the end of the show. Kind of sad that Netflix is starting to go with cheap TV reality show style programming now.
Jalisurr
Jalisurr
I’m willing to bet this is entirely it, especially since the performance package gets a 1" upgrade in the front and only .5" upgrade in the rear.
Coming here to post this exact thing. This is definitely a wagon, albeit a bit of an outlier.
Not a lot of performance cars that I know of, but mid engine it isn’t completely unheard of. The SW20 MR2 had larger rear rotors than front, I’m sure there are some others.
You also claim stability control was prevalent in the early 90s. That is not the case at all. Most economy cars didn’t have stability control until the mid 2000s. Only crossovers and SUVs started implementing stability control early in the 2000s as standard equipment because of rollover risk. Most sedans and “regular”…
The whole idea that cruise control is dangerous in the rain was A LOT more accurate with older systems. It’s much safer now although definitely not fail safe.
It wont make you suddenly go airborn, but it certainly can start a slide, and with the already slippery road the car has a higher chance of continuing to slide after the hydro planing has stopped and the tires are making contact with the road again.
This. I was told not to use CC in the rain back when cars were all rear-wheel drive and lacked stability or traction control. A skid in the rain with the cruise on could be very dangerous.
It’s pervasive because it’s true. The traction imbalance, as the cruise control (which is pretty stupid in pre DBW cars) attempts to maintain speed, results in immediate yawing in the worst case. It will spin you around so fast you won’t know what hit you. And, the speed sensors might tip the ABS controller off that…
he’s giving terrible advice. probably the worst column I’ve ever seen on this site.
It will put you into a violent yaw when you hydroplane, whether the yaw sensor flips the CC off or not.
150 years ago, humans used horses for transportation and electricity wasn’t used for much, if anything. Japan was just beginning to westernize. Until 1861, the most efficient mail to the west coast was Pony Express, and don’t even think about overseas. 500 years ago, Western “Civilization” was just beginning to…
This poetic, but simply not true.
It’s worth noting that Antarctica isn’t basically abandoned. It has a seasonal fluctuating population between 1100 and 4400+ people [source]. Even a Martian colony of equal size to Antarctica would be pretty impressive. And there is a lot more different types of research that could be done on Mars that cannot be done…
Effective birth control is already solving that problem. Birth rates are at or below replacement in effectively every rich country. In the developing world, birth rates are falling quickly as access to birth control expands and cultural attitudes shift (much as they did in the rich world in the 1960s/1970s).
As Friedman pointed out earlier, we don’t see colonists living in Antarctica or under the sea, so why should we expect troves of people to want to live in a place that’s considerably more unpleasant?
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