I am going to do a Spec Miata race this year and it’s been 11 years since I last drove either a race / race prepped car or in a competitive race / race weekend, so of course I need a test day to get back up to speed (I really need more, but can’t afford that.) I went up to WGI where I’ll be racing for the test day,…

I’ve looked on an off for years (since around 2012). Just at ad’s never found anything that looked worth the trip. Hell, I’m pretty sure I’ve only made one phone call even. But yeah, I have credit, I’m not going to buy your “stage x bruh” car for $3-7k less than a new one.

Not only that, but I predict the exact same thing will happen that happened with the 2012 Abarth. Those cars all sold in and around MSRP, there was a lot of excitement and something in the neighborhood of 5000 units for the USA that first year. As with any new car, excitement created demand and people paid to be the…

I don’t follow NASCAR so I’m not familiar with this rule / situation, but if you ask me the way about 80% of the guys throw their hands up at once in a “What’d you taking ‘bout” manner, they all knew what they did and they all knew it wasn’t okay.

Well maybe it needs to be an independent organization, or I don’t know..., I certainly don’t think these organizations are not without their issues and yes, for this to work it needs to be regulatory, not politicized, that, I can agree with you. Point is I think something needs to be done, needs to be set up, to both…

Just been to the eye doctor actually and they tell me I’m doing fine, but of course I can’t see that so I’ll have to take their word on it.

Well, I don’t disagree that just because something explodes it’s bad. Obviously we have been riding around in “explosion machines” for around a century, and before and during that time, we also used machines that used fire, hot water and extreme pressure contained in a metal casing, which of course had the risk of…

What’s your point here? Just to be an ass by being technicaly correct? Or can we grow up and have a real discussion about this? Is a seatbelt pre-tensioner power by an explosive a better idea then one that uses a mechanical pre-tensioner? Why? Based on your reply, it would be because the body and the car contain…

I mean, clearly a different kind of material and contained behind vaaaaaaaaaaaaaastly thicker metal casings. Of course technically you are right and the results of disaster could be the same. They went though that with drag racing, first moving the motor from in front of the driver to behind and later adding more and…

Yes, that too, and we saw that with the GM ignition switch issue too. Almost the exact same story, employee’s raised concerns internally, ignored. Some data comes out and it’s not correctly looked at until a decade later, but more importantly until there has been a large enough number of deaths to “warrant” the…

Side note, I fully think that one day we are going to realize that packing our cars with something like 10-20 explisive devices (think of how they brag about 7, or 12 airbags, and then add other “safety devices” like pyrotechnic per-tensioners on the seat belts,) in the name of safty was about as stupid as... well…

So here we are again (and again, and again,) in a situation where lack of regulation allows a company to make a dangerous, possibly criminally dangerous, decision in the quest for profitability and surprise!, we find out that the threat of punishment for being caught doing something wrong wasn’t a sufficient…

As someone who seems to be trying to make a career out of working in parts (not for Auto Zone or any similar chain store,) that’s exactly what you get when the employer thinks any idiot can look something up in a computer and is only deserving of minimum wage. Besides obvious skill and experience, you don’t get people…

If I had a race team (which won’t ever happen,) I’d run my cars, transporters etc. in that!

Ferrari, of course.

Speaking as an owner, the first thing Fiat needs to do is get their quality up, but they won’t because the rest of FCA has the same issues. Next, FCA has some pretty terrible customer service, they have no interest in keeping customers that are having lots of issues with their new cars happy. Legally they just have to…

It’s a combination of the dealers and the parent company clearly only giving a crap about new car sales and not the owners experiance. You know sort of like they have always done for the last, what almost 40 years? Yeah, I’m never getting an FCA product again when I’m done with the Abarth.

As a Fiat owner (and the rest of FCA doesn’t seem any better,) be concerned with their lack of quality, quality control, their dealers / dealer network, ability of those dealers or FCA to fix anything under warranty and their lack of doing ANYTHING for their customers when their cars are broken all the time. Sure I…

Fucking Jalopnik and their half-ass “journalism.” You guys ever heard of fact checking???!!! Pretty sure that’s a Lambo, dooode.

You very well might have figured this out already, but there’s a really, very good, extremely likely chance here that the shop didn’t use the specialized BMW tools to hold the timing chain in place and so when they put it together the timing was off and when they first started up... well you know the rest.