Yeah but you can’t blame police for doing their job, which includes keeping the streets clear. (unless the protest got approval to close the street, which isn’t clear from the article).

Compare it to the ‘stock’ rear wing, and it’s a huge improvement.

Would you rather be told to move first or be tear gassed without warning? I thought so.

Words don’t kill people, but they can scare them off, which is much safer than gas.  Take the safe route first, always.

The problem is that they’re protesting against police action by committing a crime.  Of course they’re going to get arrested.

Exactly.  Legitimate protests are entirely legal, but you need to get a permit.  You can’t just block the highway and expect to not get arrested.

Protests require permits. If they had one, police are at fault. If they did not, then they were quite literally doing their job, asking people to get out of the road they were illegally blocking.

I think you just explained why they have one.  Wealthy people means (theoretical) tax income that needs to get spent somewhere.

Usually, I can kind of sympathize with companies exploiting our insane copyright laws. They’re just using the system they were given.

Totally empty highways are a thing even outside of current events, just depends on time of day and location. Anywhere in California, probably not, but here in Ohio it’s common for a highway to be empty for miles in each direction for some of the day.

He did slow. And we all don’t know, I don’t follow the news, and thus don’t know any more about this than what’s on the front page of Jalopnik (and frankly don’t care). If I was driving eight hours a day for a living, I likely wouldn’t even know that much.

RX-8s can be reasonably reliable... If you replace just about everything that’s connected to the engine.

If it will park the car until it’s fixed but not damage anything? Budget basically zero.

F1 is about being the fastest cars, but you could still do that with an (enforced) budget cap:

Then why are the fastest sim racers faster in sims than the fastest real world racers, and vice-versa?

But he’s NOT a professional sim racer. Yes, there are some skills that carry over from real racing to sim racing and vice-versa, but they are not the same thing. A competition between sim racers is fine, a real race is fine. A sim racing competition between real drivers is like two NFL teams playing basketball against…

One of the loudest complaints about the Supra, no manual option, doesn’t really apply to the C8. The C8 is a dedicated mid engine supercar. It’s so clearly focused on performance, offering a manual would be like offering a manual GT-R, it just doesn’t fit the philosophy of the car. I’m firmly in the ‘manual or I won’t…

There’s a lot of plusses to the Supra too:

Arguably the reason to avoid turbos is that the GT3 is built as a fun road-legal track day car, not a full race car aiming only at lap times.  Turbos would be faster, but less fun to drive.  That’s why the GT2 gets them.

If you don’t track it, is there any reason whatsoever to buy a turbo over a base model 911 with no options?