The really telling question is, if you’re the kind of person who drops $10k on the carbon ceramic brakes because you push your NSX to the limits, are you going to leave the $1200 floormats on the car at the track?

I’ll tell you what I always considered absolute crap: the editing of the shots of Maverick adjusting the throttle. He pushes it forward when he says he’s slowing down, and vice-versa. Just some amateur hour shit right there that pulls me RIGHT out of my suspension of disbelief, every fucking time.

Dude, there were like 4,000 articles on Jalopnik this weekend about the importance of snow tires.

Keep watching, he earns it later.

I understand being proud of what it undoubtedly a difficult achievement (and full disclosure, I’m pretty much a lardass so I’m definitely not one to talk), but the 26.2 sticker crowd has a reputation for going way beyond personal pride.

I’ve seen one locally with the vanity plate “NIKOLA” and a “Starfleet Academy” sticker on the back window. I’m totally okay with that.

#NeverForget

Christ, what an asshole.

This has been my experience, as well. I’ve talked to a couple of guys who are enthusiastic about owning them without being insufferable. And, full disclosure: I am (I desperately hope) enthusiastic-but-not-insufferable about the solar panels on my roof, so, yeahhhh, I seem to get along just fine with the…

Oh man, new rule of thumb: if you see a Model X with a “26.2” sticker on the back, fucking haul ass out of there because if you get sucked into that ‘check out how great I am’ conversation, you will not escape. Not without a felony charge, at any rate.

Tesla considers itself a ‘tech’ company, explicitly NOT a ‘car’ company. That sort of blind, slavering worship is endemic all over the tech industry. I guess the Tesla superfans are just...I don’t know, playing along?

Respect, my brother, for phonetically nailing the accent. Most people use a ‘w’ when an ‘h’ is what’s really called for.

I’m no expert, but here’s what I’ve read, translated into the lingua franca of cars:

Why would a US sub kill anything it tracks?

It wouldn’t. But they track whatever they detect anyway.

Filed to “Wrenching?” Doesn’t this belong under “Inadequate Man,” or perhaps “Ask a Filthy Person?”

Once again: great perspective, Tyler. Thank you.

Yeah and, uh, whose military has got that shorts-and-sneakers look going for their ground crews? At least issue them some ankle socks so they don’t look like total goobs in those cargo shorts, yikes.

I had a director in college who had a hilarious homophobia story. He started teaching high school drama in the south, and while he never made a habit of talking about his personal life, he didn’t work all that hard to hide it. One year, a particularly, er, ambitious young woman had to settle for a smaller role in a…

“The Cold War: Hold My Beer and Watch This!”

I think of the F-84H as an exercise in “lessons learned.” In this case: some envelopes aren’t meant to be pushed. That’s okay. Any good scientist knows that negative results may not be flashy, but they’re still valuable data.