There is some overlap since the GTi and twins can both be considered “enthusiast cars”; however, FWD hot hatch and RWD light-weight sports car are pretty different.

The first 80% of charge can be done very quickly, so the idea for road trips in an EV is that you plan stops to fill up to 80% (current technology puts this at 20ish minutes depending on the exact vehicles and chargers).

It’d be unimaginable for local ordinances to require apartments to install chargers in the parking lots, or incentivize employers to supply charging at  work.

I’m an instructor at my local tracks and the CDI (Chief Driving Instructor) for my SCCA region’s Time Trial program. I do 30-40 trackdays a year with 5-6 local clubs. I recommend trackdays to all enthusiasts and anyone even remotely interested in cars.

If only there were some act of Congress to deal with voting rights, then maybe, just maybe free and fair elections would be the norm and the people would chose their representatives instead of the other way around.

The end of a river changes often, that’s how you get river deltas, and the source/origin of many rivers is often a nebulous watershed that converges from a large area coalescing into the river. Seldom does a river have a well defined source (there’s still conflict and debate over the source of the Nile).

What about a river? Rivers change course often and use different channels, the water in the river is continuously changing, and often rivers will dry up entirely and yet, almost universally no one considers any of these scenarios as different rivers.

Fair points. This is still an early prototype though, so we all need to keep that in mind that these are test articles and not final versions. The whole program is different than how we’re used to seeing tests of space vehicles.

SpaceX is landing and reusing its Falcon 9 boosters regularly, in fact it’s become so routine that one of the Falcon 9's not landing safely has become the exception. Blue Origin also has a suborbital hopper (New Shepard) that regularly lands and is reused (they plan on offering tourist rides in it). Rockets already…

I hope we go with the same setup, our current rules aren’t especially onerous on the students (and they still have the choice for either in-person or remote learning). The main issue is that the teachers were told from the start that our options are to either accept whatever the admin decides, or we can find a new…

I’m a teacher at High School in Texas, last week we had a funeral for one of our football coaches who died from Covid (the principal never said the word Covid). Today, just after Abbott’s announcement the principal announced that there is an administrative meeting next week to reevaluate (reduce/remove) our Covid…

I drove mine stock for a year, with the factory replacement camber bolts you’re limited to about 1 degree of negative camber (which will lead to excessive shoulder wear). My BRZ is STX prepped: coilovers, swaybars, intake, headers, exhaust and tune, a big brake kit, and wheels and tires. I also added an oil cooler…

I’ve driven all of them (I’m an instructor at the local tracks and with multiple clubs). The 86 twins are more poised than the Miatas, Mazda seems to like a bit of body roll to get their cars to lean in but the 86 brethren just grip and go. The NC is a fine car but the BRZ/FRS just do everything better, so as long as…

I’d recommend the FRS/BRZ/GT86, lightweight and cheap like a Miata but as a coupe you have a solid roof and space with the seats folded down for a full set of tires. They’re also getting old enough to be cheap enough to turn into a track vehicle.

That’s always the argument, but I didn’t see any difference moving from a rural town of under 10k to a metropolitan area of about 6 million. My personal needs, ideology, and opinions didn’t change because my zip code did. Other than farm subsidies, what special needs or rural concerns are there that are unique to…

So, my dad drives an S550 that I’ve driven a number of times and I’ve driven a couple Model S’s and even an E63 AMG. The Tesla out accelerates them all, and was as quiet as the big Merc’s. The Mercedes won out on interior quality and appearance; however, there was nothing particularly wrong with the interior of the S…

One of my local tracks doesn’t allow EV’s because they require more serious fire response (mainly they have to be doused longer and that requires much more water and thereby a much larger water tanker).

Another option is to significantly increase the gas tax, this would both cover charging infrastructure investment and incentivize individuals to switch to electric vehicles. It’s been 30 years since the gas tax was raised, but only because people don’t like paying taxes (especially regressive ones like a gas tax).

A 90mph Diesel Electric hybrid really isn’t a terrible alternative.

Sure it’s funny now, but what about when they return to Washington state or take a quick overseas trip to Tbilisi, Georgia to complain about election results?