Yes, but a large part of that is being able to keep revs and turbo pressure up so it can effectively stay in the power band off of the line. Gaps in timing between 0-60 and 5-60 are always* going to be a deficit for a turbo drivetrain.

Had one for a rental out in LA one time.  It was a warrior from the road.  All dented up and and when you got in the front seat, the center console wasn’t securely fastened totally to the floor, so it shifted around.   Add the tin like feel to it all, was horrible.

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Got a couple of years on ya 79' lol. But yeah. And the lead sled love 100% came from the movie Cobra with Stallone. Terrible movie but man that was a mean AF looking car. Put the biggest engine I can fit it in, complete rework of the suspension to make it handle, as best as you can with a 1950's car, and modern stuff…

You pretty much have to for the base AWD Sienna. Toyota also doesn’t do orders, so you’ll have a deposit and then you’ll be hoping that what comes to the lot matches everything you want. In regards to the trim, to get similar features in the Toyota you’re probably hitting $57k and you’re also locked in to a 7…

This kind of anecdote is my favorite response to the malaise-era boomerisms about how Japanese cars were all crap that was trying to undercut red-blooded US automakers. In reality, basically everything coming out of Japan during that era was so far and ahead of the US automakers that it’s unfair to call them…

To add to that - a lot of people dismiss the uncomfortable 3rd rows by saying they won’t need them normally and it’s nice to have in a pinch. So you’re giving up that trunk space for seating that isn’t normally used. You could stow or remove that 3rd row and then you get a nice sized trunk - that’s much smaller than a…

Yes.. You can choose between Elantra N, standard non-descript EV noises and a 2024 interpretation of the cars from The Jetsons if I remember correctly..

That definitely lessens the chance of it getting on the wrong plane, since they just send it down the luggage slide which goes right to the ground crew to load on the plane.

I forgot they MADE Gran Turismo

Not directed at you but in general, lets look at is this was Apples cash reserve is HIGHER that the GDP of well over 100+ countries. If this movie is a total and complete flop is essentially a rounding error on Apple’s books lol.

It doesn’t help that they don’t seem to have a name for it yet. The article only ever refers to it as “Brad Pitt’s F1 movie” which is not exactly memorable. It also doesn’t speak highly of it, because the only thing we know is that there is an actor tied to it who is way too old to be an F1 driver and is not really…

Well played--good research.

I had the same thought. $750m to break even is insane - that is probably in the neighborhood of what Fast and the Furious movies need to break even, and those have 24 years of following and are arguably the most iconic car movies in history.

This time is worse, because Chinese companies can build a car that all Americans would buy. In the 70s, Japanese cars were tiny cracker boxes, so they didn’t really compete with the domestic company’s bread and butter.

Given it’s penchant for expensive, troublesome maintenance, I fully agree.

Same, it’s much better than a practice session. Once in a while I’d watch practice highlights, but never the whole session. Now, I usually watch all of sprint, and sometimes only the highlights.

As Martin Brundle said “who would rather watch Free Practice instead of a Sprint Race?”

It tends to get pushed in waves, and the switch has very much been set to “on” recently.

The only issue I have - well, aside from McLaren willingly hosting the papaya-colored fella - is that he’s wearing a hat with his political slogan on it. Lando and Trump in a photo is just two guys in a photo op. Lando and Trump complete with MAGA hat can easily be spun as LN/McLaren/F1 endorsing him politically,…