Well, birthrates in the US have always been linked to making mistakes...

In a perfect FSD world there will be no stop lights, signs, nothing, just an incredible series of TERRIFYING yet orchestrated near misses...basically like driving in India :)

I remember that! Dave and Busters had two of them at White Flint mall in MD. Wasted so many credits on it.

Holy crap. My childhood just slapped me in the face.

I can’t believe Mario Kart hasn’t been mentioned yet. Obviously, it’s heavily stylized and features few real-world inspired cars, but it’s a game series that’s had a pretty large influence on the racing genre as a whole. Not only that, but it can be both a game that’s fairly easy to pick up and play casually, as well…

Also honorable mention to Sega Rally Championship, Daytona USA, and Shox

I forget which Burnout series it was, but we had the Playstation hooked up to a projector, and would get drunker than Cooter Brown, and do the crash mode thing, complete with explosions.

It really was the ultimate drinking game. Get drunk, CRASH! High score naturally wins.

THAT was way better than having some drinks…

Honey-baked ham? That’s your problem right there. If that held steamed hams, it’d be a best-seller, at least in the Albany area. 

You really don’t understand why someone with $100K to spend on a car might choose a Mercedes Benz rather than gamble on the first car from a startup? The 500+ mile range Lucid is $140K to start by the way.

Neutral:

I’m partial to Lola and Lotus.

Here’s Lola:

Any.

The grille seems to have survived relatively intact. 

A two and a half ton sports car should have brakes sized to stop two and a half tons, repeatedly. It just should.

As much as I agree w your statement, The Plaid edition was supposed to be built for track days. If people were complaining about the brakes on the standard S, that’d be one thing, but the whole point of this version was to build the fastest sedan they could. If they didn’t upgrade the brakes as much as they upgraded…

I picked up my wife for our first date in a 12 year old Nissan econbox, where I literally kicked her door shut and had to hit the dash with my fist to get the dahslights to come on at night.

The worst car to take is your best car.

Public transit.

Doug has done more for car culture than damn near anybody. He’s gotten people who had previously had no interest in cars excited. And that has value.