Agreed, racing is dangerous. Period.

If batteries are properly recycled and re-used, and if the chemistry keeps getting better (energy density and charge times), then I don’t necessarily see a problem for long term use in transportation (not sure how it’s going to work for semi trucks, though). It just seems that it’s a lot more convenient to charge at…

Neutral:
My wildest hope is that some thing that is already headed to a landfill could be a battery. The metal in aluminum, the leftover chicken carbonara, or something.

Agreed, Sal and his Viper have been badasses for a long time.

But as they say on the internet, porque no los dos?

I marble at the distance it travelled.

Jumping to conclusions are we?

I will never take your pun threads for granite.

The boulder got knocked 30 feet away?  She really was stoned!

“suspicion” of DUI?

I mean it would have been surprising if it was anyone *but* him. We all knew this was coming 

I’m not sitting in front of the numbers but isn’t the take rate for the stick on these types of cars hovering around 50%?

I would. 

You do realize that several European automakers, including BMW and Porsche, have released manual-transmission cars that were ONLY available in the US, right? For example, the E60 M5 was only available with a manual in the US; the rest of the world was SMG-only.

So, I was saying they’re very different cars.

On the negative side, if it has auto start/stop, BMW’s 4 cylinders sound like shit on start-up...

No thank you.  Much much better vehicles out there.  I’d prefer an automatic before owning one of these.

I’m fine with people picking the Mustang. But it’s in a whole different size class, and saying the only thing going for the Supra is its weight is just not true.

Significantly bigger, significantly heavier. 

Two questions: