This car feels like a halo car. It helps Honda’s brand by offering some tangible evidence that they still care about performance without having to invest in a new dedicated platform.

So what you’re saying is that you prefer over-the-top, irrational enthusiasm every time something gets reviewed? The sort of mindless, hyper-positive crap we normally see?

A couple of years ago it came out in Connecticut that state police were using quotas, which apparently is illegal. Troops were in competition with each other and in one email that was uncovered a police Lieutenant was asking for asking for 60 tickets per shift.

I’d be curious to see under what price range those performance cars fall. If I had to guess, it wouldn’t be at the bottom end of the spectrum. The people buying these cars likely are higher income earners with some money to burn. It’s not your average consumer, going paycheck to paycheck, who’s snapping up sports cars.

It’s insane what people consider an “insane” amount of body roll. Ignoring stance crowd and drifters, some body roll is actually good thing. Who wants a car that gets upset by every little bump in the road because there’s no compliance in the suspension?

Too bad that G37 looks the way it does. Even if it were the best-looking Infiniti, which it isn’t, that isn’t saying much. The crown for best-looking Infiniti, by a huge margin, goes to the 2nd gen M45. Even the new Q60 looks marginally better with its muscular haunches.

I don’t doubt it’s fun, but calling this the best car event in the country is quite the stretch. How many times can you watch the same handful of cars drift around a track? I get the whole grass roots appeal, but if you’ve seen one drift in a battered old Nissan you’ve seen them all.

I love Germany. This attention to detail and rules is exactly why their roads are so nice.

I didn’t say I hated all these sports. Just pointing out that this happens all year long with other sports, even when it’s just inconsequential game #57 of 162.

For once Americans get to endure the annoyance I experience of wall-to-wall coverage of baseball, football, basketball and their shitty college variants. Plus day after day after day of reality show reruns.

Customization I can go far, even if it’s the goofy simplistic fare we typically get from EA. But what’s “authentic car culture”? There’s no monolithic car culture and I don’t play racing games for the culture anyway. And do they mean nocturnal, as in we’ll never get to race during the day?

I like the exterior so much more than Toyota trucks offered in the States. With the exception of the discontinued FJ Cruiser. It looks like it’s built for functionality, as opposed to striving to be machismo on wheels. But that interior looks like it belongs in a totally different vehicle; it’s a major styling…

The only time I ever see a Raptor is when it’s tooling around a wealthy town on the way to some fancy bistro. They’re the vehicle of choice for the guy who wants something more outdoorsy than a Porsche 911 but more exclusivity than a tarted up Wrangler. And it’s got just enough flair that they won’t be confused for…

I’ve looked into WeatherTech and found them to be expensive. They seem to price their mats comparably with typical dealer overpricing.

It looks like they actually do slow for turns but the cars are so fast that they must rely on muscle memory and rhythm.

Isn’t this what we want? Better people lose it in the controlled environment of a race track than on public roads.

The weird thing about Taiwan is that even American fast food is a million times better than in the States, and the restaurants are amazingly clean. And my wife reminds me of this fact on the rare occasion we get fast food nowadays.

The Chevy Spark. It’s a small economy car with the lingering stigma of being American.

You've got to love feasibility studies. Throw a small fortune at a consulting firm so that they can come back in 2 years and state the obvious, but with a bunch of nice charts and graphs.

I always prefer long videos. Provided, of course, they’re engaging. That’s the key here because most of Youtube comedians just aren’t that funny. They take a single gag and drag it out far too long.