Porsche still puts AWS in the 911 line. It’s an option on the lower range, and standard on the Turbos and GT cars.

Er, this is actually wrong. In racing, you almost always want the smallest wheel that will clear your brakes. Anything larger is just increased unsprung mass for no win. This is why, for example, the Porsche GT3 Cup car has 18" wheels, despite the road car having 20" wheels.

Car and Driver did an article on this (well, not just wheels, literally why everything on cars is getting larger):

I mean, I think the core of what ever makes any good Superman story is “he has all this power, it’s miraculous he isn’t a monster, because that’s what would happen to most people. Lets explore that.” No great Superman story ever really has a threat to Superman himself. The threat is always to everyone around him, and…

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Yes. Because to insurance companies, it’s number of doors, not number of seats behind those doors.

I mean, that’s because you know what’s going to happen. That’s really only a fair criticism if the game doesn’t stand on its own merits once fully released. It would be like coming into Mass Effect after 1, 2, and 3 are all out, and saying “man Mass Effect 1 is just setting up for 2" right?

Yes, but “nostalgia” is not the same thing as “is actually good.”

I can still enjoy something I liked as a kid as an adult, but when I watch it as an adult, I see bad writing for bad writing, plot holes for plot holes (frequently, because budget or because actor/tress left/got too expensive), and poorly realized worlds…

That’s certainly a great point, but, I have one question for you: How old where you when you first played the game?

Remember that the EJ has been around more or less since the early 90's. It’s received incremental updates, but nothing incredibly radical, in all that time.

So yes, relatively speaking the FA in general is a step change over the outgoing EJ257.

Now if you mean “how did they go from less than 300HP in the assent to 400HP…

Yeah I think people are confusing “cost to be eligible to race” with “cost to actually build a competitive car on its own merits.” This class was expensive because you had to make a homologation special. Not because it’s intrinsically expensive to make a car with the required specifications. That’s why the manifs are…

Yes, I think that’s his point, but phrased poorly. It took three years for Can Am to die because it became so expensive to compete.

Well yes, it does become disproportionately expensive to gain small advantages when there are strict rules.

It would just be very surprising because gears 7 and 8 in that transmission are both purely for fuel economy. Top speed is reached in 6th. Adding that 8th gear adds nearly 40lbs to the transmission due to how they have to repackage the gearset. I would be extremely surprised if they put it in a GT car.

The 7-speed in…

As someone that does daily their GT3, in a city, I can say that PDK is a godsend. Do I miss shifting my own gears? Yes, absolutely. Do the pros of not having a clutch in a city with a ton of hills and bad traffic outweigh the cons? Yes, absolutely.

I mean, obviously Porsche is doing it for the track times. But there is…

I would be surprised if it was the 8-speed from the regular 911s. I would expect it to be the 7-speed from the GT3.

2nd gear tops out at about 75MPH in that transmission at 9,000 RPM.

I guess my point is I’ve never watched DBZ for the serious parts after the first watch when I was 10-15 and DBZ was still (relatively) new in the late 90's. There are much better shows within the Shonin genre that have come out in the 30 years since DBZ first aired if you want actual dramatic stakes.

They’re pretty orthogonal skill sets, especially in the pacenotes eara. A big part of being a successful driver is car feel, and understanding how that feel maps into controlling the car. A co driver doesn’t need that skill at all. They need to be able to clearly and concisely communicate information no matter what is…

Yeah, the problem is that most of the fans of DBZ-A already were fans of DBZ. It makes it hard to view the work objectively, because you’re not looking at it from the perspective of knowing nothing about the characters and the world, nore could you ever do that.

If you’ve already watched DBZ once, I definitely think…

I don’t think it’s really that. He has a great answer to someone asking about it in a Con panel: