“when did they jump the shark (like Mini) and just start building huge vehicles? 2014?”

I think it looks like an elephant standing on a loading dock.

That’s just an aftermarket badge for people who want to pretend that their Kia isn’t a Kia, see also fake Raptor grille people and red badge Honda people

I have to commend you commitment to Carl

edit: Iregularly read your comments in his voice, followed by the occasional “fry man”

2013 BRZ for me. I even commuted 38 miles each way with it for 3 years. COVID changed the whole daily thing, so now thankfully don’t have to deal with the noise that was pretty brutal.

Yeah, the H-box is cheap feeling, but that does not detract from the fun at all, IMHO. If anything, the dantiness with which you should use it makes it pretty cool. There’s something interesting with the disconnect of running a 600hp C7.R down a straight at 180mph, and downshifting like your casually moving chess…

The wealth valuations of the “richest” people based upon stock values are incredibly stupid. Musk is contractually prohibited from selling his shares, and even if he wasn’t the stock price would plummet if he went to sell all of his shares. I doubt he even has $1B in liquid assets he can actually spend.

It’s strange that Powell wasn’t able to convince a single court, isn’t it? Or is that part of the “deep state” conspiracy also?

There are so many goatees there

Er, so, actually many hybrids (including the Prius and most of the Fords as they used the same system) work this way. The gas engine is never directly driving the wheels, it is always acting as a generator for the electric motor which then drives the wheels.

I totally understand where you’re coming from, and I agree that I’m not super comfortable putting my future on the line with what amounts to organized gambling. But try to remember that traditional automakers (not Tesla) generally provide that nice steady growth (yes I know GM fucked up and went bankrupt). And if they…

I read that as “Can we stop pretending like “shareholders” are like 6 evil dudes sitting in a golden shower staring down at the rest of us?”

Maybe not a golden tower but a golden shitter maybe. Considering the top 10% owns over 80%(was 84% pre-pandemic) of shares the benefits are fairly diluted for most of us as we are just carving up an ever shrinking slice. Yay stocks going up but the gains for most of our 401K’s just don’t amount to much actual money,…

A Miata with a mild hybrid system and push-to-pass electric boost would probably do quite well. I’m hoping a similar system appears on the next BRZ.

But it’s not a real rotary unless it’s buried under a rat’s nest of vacuum hoses.

I suspect they put it this way because to be considered a “range extender” rather than a hybrid it has to have some silly small gas tank and limited performance when range extending. Think BMW i3. But I expect you can just keep filling it up every 125 miles and drive as far as you want. Quick fillup with a tiny tank…

The guy who works for a car site and willfully subjects themselves to the misery of air cooled VW ownership hates cars?

You’re blinded by your hate of change and progress that you can’t see that people can like cars and also understand the myriad issues that come with them.

I would trade my gas daily driver for an EV…

Given the battery pack weighs 1400 pounds on its own

Really, it just shows I shouldn’t be including the M3 in that category. The M2 Competition is a better example of the point I was trying to make, and even that is pretty fat for a sports car.

I thought we were talking about sports cars, not SUVs? Why are you using a two ton model Y to argue a point with me about enthusiast cars? Tell me when Tesla or anyone else can make something that competes with a 911 or an M3 or a Corvette. You can’t, because a battery pack that has as much energy as a tank of gas…