The corner dents are aftermarke. 

The Corolla S.  Exactly the same mechanicals as the base model but it has bigger wheels and the plastic caps on the chin and bumper. 

Take some time to talk about where you can really go in an unmodified SUV (rental car).  They can make it a lot further into the back country than most folks give them credit for. 

That is a lot of money for what it offers.
If all I want is an around town car that can’t even get to the next city and back why does it even need to highway speeds? Why would I pay real car prices for something marginally more useful than a GEM car?

It is good enough for 90% of my uses but it cost more than a car that…

The lap times will go up for a half dozen races then they will start squeaking back down as teams find the edge conditions they can work in.

Then Ferrari will get the rules  changed again. 

The Monday update helps explain that a lot.

The shooter was defending his home and his girlfriend. Unfortunately he accidently shot her too. 

This take is almost as obvious as slideshows being unpopular. 

It sounds like American car buyers really like fixed prices, easily searchable inventory, cars that are reasonably inspected, and not haggling with a salesman.

Those guys make sense, but the elderly folks at the KOA always seem like a bad idea that doesn’t actually come out cheaper than nice hotels and nice cars. 

When you look at the costs in fuel and maintenance you are better off buying a luxury SUV and staying in a nice rental cabin nearby.

It isn’t like most RVs can really get deep into the wilderness. 

Cost of living (especially housing) is a bear in SoCal. This makes spooling up labor, even decent paying labor, hard and slow.

That is cool, but it is a real clutch. I am talking about an entirely software clutch that really just shifts the existing transmission into N when you press it. (Yes, this is a silly idea)

A clever modder could put in a digital clutch that simulates the effect of pressing a clutch with just the software in the current transmission.

The lateral G forces are really the biggest limits. Right now some folks are saying the drivers hit 4-5g combined loads in cornering, realistically 50% higher would be too much for the drivers to take.

If we are keeping the meat sack in the car, there probably isn’t more than 25-30% shorter lap times even possible…

The only thing that is actually regulated is emissions. You can go crazy with the body and Johnny Law won’t care. High, low, hydraulics, pneumatics, weird wings, no doors, NOBODY CARES.

But your emissions need to be in order. Your malaise era muscle car better have every inch of vacuum line spaghetti and that smog…

Would 15 minute sets really be that bad? Run the boats in heats in a way that you can get two or three good hours of racing like Rally Cross on the water. 

My beat up old jeep has almost as much fabric as steel on the outside.

They shouldn’t change the on track part but I can see fixing the run offs so it doesn’t funnel cars back onto the track.

Maybe putting in gravel traps and widening the runoffs. 

>explain to me how you can manually shift a CVT

So imagine a lever that goes between L and H with a continuous adjustment of gear ratio based on where the lever sits. You could move it in steps like an N speed shifter or you could move it continuously to hit good performance.

That is how.  Why is a whole different…

Someone was talking about a manual CVT with like a boat throttle for a shifter. That could make a CVT WRX fun to drive.