He did a great job at being offensively minded.

I run my SCCA Chapter’s Street Survival school (teen driving clinic) and we rent the parking lot at the high school football stadium (it’s Texas so the high school stadium has seating for 12k people). A couple of years ago after the first Cars and Coffee meat in the area collapsed do to this type of behavior, one of…

We could just build one more round of nuclear (fission) power plants which are carbon free (aside from construction) and could easily supply our non-renewable energy needs. It takes almost a decade to get a new nuclear plant going, but about half that is due to regulatory hurdles that could be streamlined, especially…

Same thing happened to horses, prices increased but so did quality/specialization. You could also just move to a rental model where you rent cool cars instead of buying them, since you don’t need them anymore to get to work (not saying this is the ideal, just seems the way things should go for the sake of efficiency).…

No, only niche car makers will continue to sell to consumers, everyone else will sell commercial/ride share vehicles or go out of business.

What I mourn is the US losing the moral authority that comes with assassinating a foreign diplomatic in a third country. Sure, this was a ‘bad guy’ but if we go around assassinating people we feel are ‘bad guys’ then when another country does the same we won’t have a valid reason to cry foul.

The ideal is for cars to become like horses. No one needs one, but for those who like them there are still places to play with them and you no longer have to use them for mundane tasks.

My buddy put the Supra brakes on his IS300, and yes I’m faster around the track than he is. He told me about the diffs once, his roommate has an FRS and he has become our unofficial group mechanic (he’s an actual mechanic). While we put a new 2Jz into his IS300 a couple weekends ago, he confided that he’s about ready…

You missed the “at the wheels part”, my WRX was tuned to the limits of the stock turbo and injectors (the class I competed in for autox required I keep those stock). “Stages” are marketing gimmicks that don’t have any real meaning, but my WRX would have been a “stage 2+” since I had upgraded the headers, full exhaust,…

Just last week, I helped a friend drop a refreshed motor into his 250k mile IS300 that he tracks and autocrosses, surprised to hear that yours didn’t work out at the track. I’m more surprised to hear of someone who didn’t enjoy the S2000 and BRZ on track, your local track must be a power course. When I’ve run at…

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.