i am seriously going to pop champagne when mazda triumphantly resurrects the rotary engine sports car. their engineering team has been sneaky-based and they’ve been subtly dragging every other manufacturer. if it wasn’t for the weak yen right now they could be making major waves in the industry.

agreed. mazda circa mid-2010s is like honda in the early 90s. there’s a slick gearbox and a sneaky driver-focused soul at the heart of every econobox shell. not to mention the samurai rotary engine is still lurking in the shadows poised to make a comeback in 2020 for mazda’s centennial.

literally a civic/integra or miata. there’s a reason these were the gold standard of manual transmissions for so long. IMO its better to learn on a non-torquey car so you can perfect your technique. an underpowered car like a civic or miata is going to require you to be in the right gear more often as well. people who…

on what planet do they call the lineup the “hitting rotation”

tell me where it says you can only downshift on a track

a lot of people like these. seems like a more natural fit for the car, even though it goes against the toyota/subaru ethos.

the tune gets some of it out, but its still there until you change out the headers and re-tune. the power curve is straight up NSFW after you get a higher flow cat of sorts to go with the tune.

it shares the same basic DNA, but it also has a much higher compression ratio and completely different injection system. turbo will still be great bang for your buck in power, but its not like a turbo will be the same as a WRX engine swap

i thought that until i bought one. when i drove it i realized i wanted to amplify the car’s existing character rather than completely change it with a turbo. its a light, revvy car with an engine that loves to be wrung out. the car along with its engine feel super connected and responsive in a visceral way. i have…

i know it won’t look like this, but i have some faith. mazda has the best designers of any japanese brand by far.

hmmmmm can’t remember where i saw it but i could swear people have driven the old Evos “beyond paved roads”......

find me an uglier merc sedan. pro tip: you can’t.

listening to Elaine Chao on this topic its clear that regulators have even less understanding of how these products work

its beautiful ;_;

sad thing is that a lot of those hits on Brissett were coverage sacks. not to take anything away from the jags pass rush, but TY and Crief, like every other pair of receivers this year, were not able to get any sort of release against Bouye and Ramsey. On replays you can see Brissett go through his reads and slowly…

the sportsmanship rating isn’t about discounting the human element at all, its about making the online portion (something the game is based around) playable. your driving skills become meaningless in most online lobbies that devolve into bumper cars, and there’s nothing more annoying than getting rear-ended into a…

.... its literally just 11 lbs lighter m8

i’d rather watch dragon ball z reruns for that instead of watching two CGI figures have a pixar brawl for 10 mins

“exhaust”

not with 1:12 to go. you don’t burn up extra clock once you are in the kicker’s supposed range. Myers in particular has historically better at longer kicks relatively speaking.