If someone makes a vehicle that can perfectly handle limited access highways and their interchanges (with traffic), and nothing else, that is instant buy for me. It’s the easy part of the problem, and the biggest time-sink.

I see FR-S/GT-86/BRZs at almost every track day I go to, why are you so skeptical about the GR-86?

It feels slightly underpowered pulling away from stop lights.

This is great news. The GT-E class was more expensive to run and kind of limited the field for Le Mans and the associated WEC series. Pretty much every other sports car series and major endurance race in the world works with GT3 spec, and because of that there’s about 15 current manufacturers of GT3 cars as opposed to…

I want to know what part of a person’s brain is missing to look at their phone recording a train crashing into a truck in portrait mode and think, “yes this is fine and good.”

Cars are already phenomenally complex machines that are unbelievably inexpensive for what they are. Self-driving hardware is adding like 2% to the overall complexity of it. The hardware problem is really more that they keep building safety-critical systems to commercial standards when they should be built to medical…

I was gonna say, self driving cars are feeling very similar to nuclear fusion, in that it’s “always x years away.” Just the x is smaller for self-driving cars.

That’s a very good shot of the car. Effectively de-emphasizes the hood height, which is my main styling quibble.

I still say the hood should either be a foot longer or 4 inches lower. Looks good, but overall a bit squat (lengthwise).

Measuring by “days” like this makes no sense.

Most miles are highway miles, where weight counts for naught. Every stop for fuel is extra city miles you wouldn’t have had to do. An extra couple gallons of gas is only 10 or 15 pounds, which is just so insignificant anyway.

It is with hybridization, yes, but all the energy output of the system is derived from gasoline. I’m not sure what the rules are here, but it seems like that should count.

I had a 2006 Skoda Octavia Diesel that got ~1000 km on a 50 liter tank. So 15 years later and we’re just doing the same but with less torque and cargo space? I guess it’s a little apples-to-oranges since this car is using gasoline, but I still struggle to be impressed by cars getting less than 50 mpg. I like all the…

The Mercedes Formula 1 power unit is 50% thermal efficiency.

It’s funny you should bring up the Isle of Man TT (which has a title sponsor of Monster Energy, by the way, and lots of other minor sponsors), because I was going to bring up the Isle of Man TT as the exact argument of why the Pike’s Peak motorcycle ban is totally lame.

Yeah I thought there was a major tax thing for nicer cars in Australia. Really skews the results if you’re looking for something in that range.

What is being online even for if not dragging people for having stupid opinions?

Oh yes, I was born in ‘86, and roundabout ‘92 or so I had this picture book of cool cars. One of them, the best one in the book, was a Countach. I saw side profile picture with the big-ass wing and the wedge and the doors that opened straight up, and that was it, I decided it was the coolest car thing ever made. Doors…

I don’t know why punching a flight attendant isn’t already a federal felony assault charge? Wouldn’t that carry significant jail time with it?

Gotta love fail-unsafe design. Just the best.