That’s interesting, is your friend’s an automatic? The automatic has worse gearing and especially with heavier and/or bigger aftermarket wheels becomes a real dog.

Definitely, I loved my 2010 WRX and thought its handling was pretty good until I got my BRZ. The handling on the BRZ was a bigger upgrade over the WRX than the power difference between them. I had done some work on my WRX and upgraded the entire suspension and put some real time and effort into dialing everything in.

Sounds about right, I just went to the VW website to check MSRP’s (that’s where I got the $10k). The GTI is slightly more expensive than a similarly equipped BRZ and both are great cars, but they are fundamentally different cars. Which you choose is less about the cars themselves and more about what you want them to…

I’ve got a friend with an E36 M3 and our cars are very close on acceleration. Just sounds like this isn’t the type of car for you, nothing wrong with that.

This is what happens when you’ve saturated the market, don’t advertise the car, and the new model is approaching.

So you got almost $10k off MSRP? The GTI costs more than a BRZ before discounts.

I traded in my 2010 WRX for a 2014 BRZ in October of 2014, the BRZ is a better driver’s car by a wide margin. The only thing the WRX did better was accelerate and carry people.

Slow compared to what? I have a 2014 BRZ and I’ve been tracking and autocrossing it since I bought it new. Whenever I give someone a ride they are amazed at how competent and fast it is on the track. The car isn’t for straight lines or stoplight drag races, it’s an amazing performance car in the same vein as a Miata.

I accomplished my 2019 goals which were:

I started out in autox too, and I’ve found that my students who start there have a much easier time adapting to the track than people who haven’t done any autox. They are very different though and you have to learn to adapt your autox skills to the track.

There seems to be a problem with the title of the article. The video (I love Driver61) is about how to progress during a club race event, which is different than a “track day”.

Spec Boxster runs the 5-speed and it’s the only week part of the car, all the teams keep spares on hand because with the 2.7L they constantly break the transmissions. Really, the 5-speed is the only big issue with the car (assuming no mechanical issues need to be addressed).

Yes, someone can be killed by a punch; however, you have to be very skilled or very (un)lucky to kill someone barefisted (assuming you aren’t purposely trying to beat them to or close to death). A single strike to the head can be fatal with a bat, a fractured skull is one of the most likely outcomes with a baseball…

I was willing to give him a pass until I read that he used a bat. Punching the guy would have been understandable but the only person you get to use a weapon on is the rapist (just claim the attack was consensual). 

The last 2 Subarus I bought were worth more a year after I bought them than I paid for them (2010 WRX and 2014 BRZ).

Looks like the Penny Farthing speed record is about 22mph.

Your totally right, I forgot to change the units from Watt-hrs to Amp-hrs (or vice versa). Thanks for the catch.

When the truck is stopped it doesn’t use electricity except for the heating/AC. Electric vehicles don’t “idle” (aside from recirculating the battery coolant, but that’s very minimal).

In 2015 I was in South Dakota visiting family, we stopped at a gas station and were amused to see a Tesla Model S on the other side of the pump. We had driven up from Texas, the trip is about 1000 miles and took us about 14hrs. To our surprise, the Tesla also had Texas plates. He’d actually driven up even farther than…

Power is the rate at which work can be done or energy transferred.