When it’s convenient? Most often dictated by non-gas level factors like stopping for food or drinks, etc

Yikes really feels bad how the entry price to a running not trashed old car is so high these days 

It doesn’t inherently, but when laid out intelligently, reducing total control overload is helpful. Sync for example had 33 buttons! and 2 dials just for the info screen control on the dash, and then additional redundancy on the steering wheel. Just ridiculously opaque and excessive. And that isn’t the worst offender…

Certainly it’s possible, though it was done back to back. If I have to err on overdone or underdone, I'll happy err under when it comes to busyness. I will note, I don’t have the most standard of preferences for material design, eg I would happily take a nice cloth seat over leather or synthetic every day of the week.…

See that opinion I get and makes sense to me. But actual minimalism I’m good with, the current inscrutability of luxury interiors (control systems in particular) (Lexus/Porsche probably the worst offenders in otherwise really nice cars) is far worse of a problem to me.

I have? I even own (well owned in the case of Toyota) both. It’s not comparable quality. Also if rear passenger testmarks are what you are looking for, or fit and finish, most exotic/premium cars outside of VAG, BMW and Merc would fail your grade for luxury. And Merc can only make it if you find as-received…

Yeah this is exactly it. For people who don’t like busy overdone interiors, Tesla is well in a class of its own in that respect. Personally, when I look at early 21st century cars with 100+ buttons everywhere (especially luxury ones), that’s just wasteful and ugly. We are slowly starting to see more minimalistic…

It's kind-of crazy to me that in a spec series the deltas are still that high, when F1 has had pole being decided by less than half a tenth for basically the whole season. Of course, qualifying is closer than the races for F1 and Indy is a bit of the opposite, but still. 

1996 Ford Explorer that finally died in 2012?after 262k miles. Surprisingly, most everything was still working at the end, until the transmission went anyways.

Btw, as a Tesla owner it really really pisses me off when I hear anyone (and I do mean anyone) defend Tesla on the basis that Autopilot wasn’t on, even if cruise control was. These two things share the same operational mechanism to turn on, just flick twice instead of once, and the only notifications you get if…

Lewis is just insanity. Honestly, just insane. Max did great, but Lewis probably could have gone even 1 or 2 tenths faster again by not getting caught in Perez’s gravel mistep. Still.

I would take cloth seats over leather at the same price. Same with no sunroof. Larger wheels are just always worse so please let me option smaller ones back when looking at performance variants. Anything gloss in an interior. AWD that doesn’t have some huge performance or otherwise benefit, hard pass (and yes I grew…

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I feel like these days David is naming holy grails more often than roman catholics name saints, and that’s impressive.

That isn't true (at least compared to what I was talking about). Lewis ran a 17.9XX in Q2, the fastest lap by anyone else including deletions was a 18.2XX by Max. In Q3, all three were in the 18.3XX range, but Bottas just eeked it out. So from that basis alone it seemed obvious that Lewis had some serious margin left…

Called it in advance. Hamilton was the actual fastest in qualifying, and the same signficant edge showed in the race over 66 laps.

Called it.

Worth noting to everyone that Hamilton did have the fastest lap of qualifying, by a huge margin (3 and some change tenths) and Bottas’s best was only 3rd fastest overall, but he’s the only one of the top 5 to get better into Q3 so got it done when it mattered. Still if the race goes similarly, expect another…

Fastback/liftback. I need the hatch in my life, but the last back corner of storage is basically never actually used in my experience. Either something is long and generally short, or it's big and fat, either way the "significant storage losses" people always claim making that body style less practical have never…

The ad says fun and not too unreliable. Hard pass (only somewhat joking).