4-5 lanes going exactly the same speed is how roads are supposed to work (unless there’s so much traffic that the speed is fifteen).

I think you’re missing the point. F1 switched to hybrids because of regulations (that they chose to change for the manufacturer’s benefit), not because they were faster. There’s a lot of baggage left over from that decision.

Frankly I hope they don’t change the narrative. F1 is about speed, period. If they can prove that they can build hybrids that are faster than the best possible traditional engine, great. If they can’t, that’s fine too. Twenty F1 cars running for a century produce less pollution than a dozen family cars do in a year.

I feel like Tesla dug themselves into a very deep hole by selling something labeled ‘full self driving’ about a decade before it was possible, and now they’re just hoping people won’t notice that they can’t provide it.

I don’t think I could live with having a car I couldn’t ever push past first gear when I wanted to. I guess to me, either I’m trying to get everything out of the car or just cruising along and it doesn’t matter, there’s not really any in-between.

This thing is what, fifteen feet wide? How are you going to drive it on anything but a six lane highway? Some of that is probably the angle of the pictures but it just looks enormous and hugely unpleasant to drive.

I’ve seriously considered three different RX-8s with less than 10,000 miles that were all pretty close to me. Two of them were ruled out by interior color (fisher-price red on black still doesn’t look good), the third by popping up right as COVID made private party sales a nightmare.

You really think you can shift up three times in the 3-4 seconds it takes to get to seventy-ish?

I had my 86 in for it’s last free service about a year ago and they had a brand-new Supra, a mint 80s Land Cruiser, and the special-edition green 86 in the showroom alongside a Camry XSE. So at least some of them still try to carry interesting stuff.

I included ‘build quality’ in the list.  Not something GM is particularly good at.

It is a little more complicated than that though. Manual cars almost universally have a higher resale value, and new buyers do take resale value into account. So a solid secondary market for the manual model does impact demand of them when new to a point.

Anything with ~400HP or more is totally fine with an automatic. With that much power you really don’t have time to use a manual transmission unless the gears are waaaay too long (looking at you, Porsche).

I don’t want any of the modern ‘infotainment’ features. I don’t want any screens in the car at all. A radio and an aux port should be the extent of the infotainment system. I could care less about features like auto cruise (or even regular cruise control), same goes for active safety features like lane keep assist.

Pretty much everything in the $30-$60k segment suffers from this. That price range doesn’t quite reach the crazy performance models, so you’re paying a lot more than a $30k car for a car that isn’t really all that different (except with a reputation for poor reliability).

I always thought of my commute as a money saving necessity. A condo near where I (used to) work starts at $500k. A nice house fifteen miles away is under $200k.

Because you don’t have to worry about it breaking down anymore, and don’t have to drive in bad weather.

I’m sure I won’t be the only one to tell you this, but you were shifting too early. Even in daily driving you shouldn’t be shifting before 4500. If you’re trying to get anything out of the engine, you’re starting out above the torque dip, not below it.

Facism is a political ideology. Saying you are anti-Facist is therefore a political statement.

Like the Civic Type R, it’ll probably look alright in black, but only in black. At least the wheels are alright.

This wouldn’t be a terrible experience if it was a plane custom-built for the job. (Much larger windows for example). People fly small private planes for entertainment all the time.