I agree with the numbers here except that 12.5% (or roughly 1 in 10) as you put it are in the range of "not horrible", which is very much not the same as "good". "Good" covers a much smaller percentage. Maybe 5%. I'm feeling generous today.

Tell it all. Don't stall.

Does it have to look that much like R2-D2?

Aaron, I respectfully request that you remove this story. Ignoring these idiots is the only way to beat them. You can lead by example.

I just sort of thought you were getting all nostalgic and had rather fond memories of them sweet good vents.

It's called the hexagon project because everything Lamborghini designs is hexagonal lately. If the name doesn't relate somehow to Bullfighting they're doing it wrong. If it's not available with a manual transmission they're doing it wrong. That is all.

I think that's the point. There's nothing really wrong with it, but it isn't special either. It's too bland. We don't need any more Corolla-Focus-whatevers.

It does look like it has a case of the "911 peekaboos"

It's all about mastering your fear

I cannot and will not defend the actions or decisions made by the idiot that caused this. I do not condone any of it, so save your breath.

Agreed. Many turn names are written in blood.

Turn 1 is "The Wall"

I'll just leave this right here.

The last paragraph from the article: "Have you noticed this, too — the death of the noble sports car? Will you miss them when they're totally gone? Or are we over-reacting?"

Reminds me of this. 2006 X Games Rallycross. Colin McRae did the same thing. Travis Pastrana's face says it all. "Sure I won the gold but so what Colin just rolled his car and didn't even lift throttle."

I picked up a pair of Porsches for $800 a couple years ago. One was a 944 with a broken timing belt but otherwise complete (yes, it's an interference engine, so the head had to come off and some repairs were necessary), and the other was a 924s parts car. We turned the 944 into a Lemons/Chump racer and so far it's…

These have to exist to balance the universe since so many Rx-7s have been given small block V8 swaps.

Blames video games for taking the excitement out of track events.

I didn't know that. It's possible that it's just a joke put together by someone. Great film school project, which I know we've seen before. Wasn't the Mercedes "commercial" about the system preventing disasters before they happen by running Hitler down as a small boy an example of this?

It's tough to draw the line between PR blunder and just good old badvertizing. I don't know if there was any backlash for this one, but I also don't think it was ever shown in the States. Some markets may be more tolerant than others.