It would be cool if you did things with cars that humans couldn’t tolerate. Make them go 500mph. Race them around loops and corkscrews. Let fans participate by dropping speed boosts, mines, and sections of the track covered in mouse-trap glue. Make it hilarious and I’ll tune in.

* Motorcycle deaths.

Why is your homebuilt camera solution better integrated and better looking than the vast majority of backup cameras? Nice job, man. 

Indeed.

Just a casual reminder that motorcycle deaths are up 21% from ten years ago and that, while they only drive 0.6% of vehicle miles traveled per year, they make up 14% of traffic fatalities. It is true that there are more motorcycles on the road now than there were ten years ago, but it is not a pro rata increase…

I remain unconvinced that the future of fun-to-drive cars will only get bleaker and bleaker. Heavier. More gadgets and electronics. Fake noises. It all makes me feel like a real doomer boomer.

Lol. 

Maybe this is why the douchebag dad I secretly hate who drops off his kid at daycare at the same time as me owns a $120k Cadillac Escalade for him and his 19 month old to go back and forth from daycare in. 

I guess you just live in a very different part of the world than I do. 

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing. Way more interesting than this “article.” 

I would assume a full-kit suspension designed for a specific vehicle right off the shelf would be the best bet. But, when I was doing all this stuff I had to do it a piece at a time because I was a broke kid doing most of the work with a buddy in the backyard. Swapping a d16 in using a comealong attached to a tree…

Definitely true. My first experimentation in suspension mods was a long time ago, but it started with some Neuspeed lowering springs on my 91 Civic on stock shocks (it was the 90s, ok). Looked “awesome” and I “definitely” noticed a difference in handling. (And bouncing, and stiffness - but at 19 I thought that’s what…

The vast majority of suspension mods. Outside of maybe a 1" drop for looks, I’d say 90% of hobby-tuner suspension modifications serve to make the car uncomfortable and more unpredictable. Occasionally they are done right, but most of the time you get a bouncy uncomfortable ride with snap oversteer, terrible understeer…

I don’t care if it’s the reality TV version of F1, full of carefully edited drama that was turned to 11 for the sake of attracting new fans.

I always notice it in movies and shows when they didn’t get permission (or license or whatever else is needed) to show the car logo. It’s always a glaringly obvious noticeable thing to me, but, I’ll mention it to my wife and she absolutely does not notice. 

It doesn’t solve the money problem, which was a big part of what standardizing and hyper-technifying the rules was (allegedly) all about.

I was ready to hate it when my friend’s said they were doing it. Then it rolled up and I instantly changed my mind. I love it... 

The list of cars I would spend $60k on is a mile long before I'd even consider this thing. 

Sixty....thousand..... dollars...? 

A sensible plan. But a boring one!