I see a lot of complaints about the anticipated handling of the Demon, which is odd because no-one (including me) every purchased an LX/LC with expectation that it would be a great autocross car. People buy these because they’re big, comfortable and go really fast in a straight line. This isn’t a Mustang, a Miata or…
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Great article...
Token Viper owner chiming in:
That’s entirely possible, if not likely. Mistakes yes...planning to fail, not so much.
Yet another “clever plan to not sell cars and generate revenue” post...
Don’t debate - buy one if you have the budget. I’ve tried a number of all-season suits and the Aerostich is my favorite by a wide margin.
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I saw several such hulks, including this one, during a river tour I took this summer. Thanks for the backstory Peter!
“Akira Nakai: Too Cool For Safety Glasses And Measurement Tools”
My father purchased an early MGB just before he passed away; I was less than a year old when he died and my grandfather took care of the car until I was 18. I would, mostly just to troll people, drive around in the early winter (before salt was spread) with the top down and wearing the longest scarf I could find so it…
OEMs profit from the uptake (purchase) of options, especially “premium” options such as appearance packages...and high-end in-vehicle infotainment systems. The uptake rate of premium systems has actually trended down for most OEMs, and the feedback that they’re getting from the market is something along the lines of…
I thought as much: your comments are based on implementation and not what the design ideal is. These are two very different things...
The goal of these high-number-of-gears planetary step-automatics is to keep the engine as close to optimum operating characteristics as possible.
I whole-heartedly agree with the main point of this post, which is “swap rides to experience more cars”. I have always done this, because spec sheets and other’s people opinions provide a limited amount of information. I think this principle is especially important with motorcycles, as it’s much more difficult to…
Some will disagree with me, but $30K airplanes are slow to the point of being tedious. I would rather spend that on a car (or a bike) where the excitement/dollar ratio is much higher.
Gen-Vs have a numerically-low axle ratio, a low-mass flywheel and a steep first gear, all of which makes them harder than average to launch smoothly. You can’t ease them off the line the way that some of you suggest and need to launched more like a track car. That isn’t the kiss of death for using it as a trainer but…
I’m a firm believer that “light makes right”, but it’s important to note that just having a manual rack doesn’t guarantee lightness or steering feel. I drove an Alfa 4C several months back, driving to the evaluation with my Viper, and was struck by how little difference there was in steering feel between the two. I…
Unless you are rich and can afford a membership to a private track, then IMHO there reaches a point of diminishing returns.
This isn’t my bag (get it? “bag”?), but what I really don’t understand is why go someplace where you’re hated and hassled? Reach out to the Chamber of Commerce in a couple of candidate towns and pitch this to them as some kind of cultural out-reach/revenue enhancement program. Some town, somewhere, is going to need…