Because she wants to hide the fact that she’s in an extremist cult from people who don’t know it.

I’m into religious freedom, too. That’s why I think it might be a nice thing if some religions would let adherents who no longer want to be a part of said religion leave peacefully. But I know that’s a bit of a big ask for Scientologists!

Consumer cars have had variable ratio steering for a decade.

It’s actually not all that unusual in mechanical systems today. Just not to the extreme of what they are doing here. 

You would have to have variable geometry with a full steer-by-wire system though. Or at least some secondary processing that can ‘override’ the input. Otherwise you run a very high risk of erratic behaviour at high speed. When 300 degrees takes you lock to lock, a 30 degree shift from center (which is only 12 to 1…

*Carpal tunnel syndrome has entered the chat *

yeah, if i demanded a manual choke or a crank starter on a 2023 car i’d expect to have to pay more for that too.

You have a higher chance of going to Hawaii and getting attacked by Ezra Miller than you do getting attacked by a shark.

It will go anywhere that isn’t snow. We use its grandad as a utility thing and it will not get stuck in 6 wheel drive...unless you are in snow then it’s completely hopeless.

Now I think is a good time to mention how James May said that cars tuned for tracks like the Nurburgring makes them terrible to use everywhere else.

his "music" is trash, like himself, period. 

My haha applies to the fact that people started calling Kanye a genius the moment Kanye told them he was a genius.

sit down, kanye.

Quite a stroke of good fortune for Louis.

The Yugo is just a hatch, nothing hot about it.

Chevy Citation X-11

(US) Ford Escort Turbo GT. 120hp, exterior and interior essentially the same as the rest of the Escort lineup, metric wheels. Pales in comparison to the Euro Escort Turbo of the same time period.

If you thought modern Alfa was unreliable, let me introduce you to 80s Merkur. XR4TI.

What’s the worst article format of all time?

It’s really tough to argue any of those points... I think that’s why they still so much of these type of vehicles.