“AWD”

As does the Subaru he mentioned too.

True, but Doug also worked for Porsche prior to his writing career annnnnnnnd authored a rather well selling book. So yes, he may have made a lot of his money writing, but it wasn’t just for Jalopnik.

You’d be surprised the number of claptraps you can buy for the price of one well sorted suspension.

And sometimes taking care of what you’ve got can be expensive. Frankly, I don’t care that Andrew drives a boring Acura and David has fifteen million Jeeps in various forms of repair. They still have to maintain them, which requires $$$$$. Also, specifically, if David were to want to maintain one of his Jeeps at…

One persons pile of shit is another persons “nice” car. ;)

You see, the key to owning nice vehicles is having the money to spend on them. Which, and I know this may come as a surprise, Jalopnik writers don’t make much of.

I’m not exactly sure how strongly I feel about this take, but I think going mid-engined will kill this car. Especially if you can’t fit a set of golf clubs in whatever storage you have left.

I’m not sure if this is an example of unfair officiating, because the Rams are getting the pants played off them, but the 49ers didn’t have any penalty yards before the end of the 3rd quarter.

Oh, you live in Santa Barbara?

I understand needing to make your money back on your investment etc. etc. but building these cars can’t cost much more than $50k a piece, and that is including labor.

That’s a NA6 Miata, automatic beater status.

I would love to do what you do. I love “amateur” racing like this but the cash involved is a little out of my league still.

Ah, I was actually referring to #315 in front of you. Had to go back and look again. In the video it just looks like he drifted out in front of you from the inside line when, since you’re in a much faster car I wonder if it would have been smarter for him to stay to the inside.

That attempted pass on the last corner of the first lap seemed mighty ambitious and almost caused a wreck. Granted, I think he was cut off but that was a little hairy for a second.

Not that I really disagree with this opinion, but is it really worth 1000 words when they’ve been written already?

Could it be emissions? Fuel economy may be the same but maybe this plays around a bit with the emissions aspect?

While I 100% agree with the premise of your argument, I think the prevailing market winds are for body on frame because of those illogical consumer feelings about toughness.

I found the juxtaposition funny