If I do not partake in pretending to mourn a dead stranger - in front of other strangers that did not know the dude either - who met his demise doing dangerous things, and that makes me a “major jerk”, then so be it. I can’t be arsed into hypocritical theatrics.

It may be safer relative to riding on the street, but it is still “hurling oneself as fast as physics allow, dancing at the edge of a catastrophe, in a desperate bid to get past others” which contains the possibility of getting rammed by said others.

Are you being sarcastic?

when you try and pass something off as fact when its an opinion piece... yes.

I’m siding with Bubba here. And for context, I’m an automotive engineer. tall and short sidewalls have their place. It isn’t so much that one is better than the other, its that each has pros and cons in different context. tldr: its application dependent.

Is a problem when the adjective “quantitatively” is used in the title and then the article is pretty much all conjecture

First of all, the title says “quantitatively worse”. Quantitative means by the numbers. If he didn’t want to provide numbers, he should have chosen a different word. There are plenty in the English language to choose from.

Second, you don’t believe anything to be false based on what? Do you have intimate knowledge of…

Because this isn’t facebook? I realize Jalopnik isn’t MotorTrend or the L.A. Times, but I expect better. Otherwise what’s the point in visiting the website? I can read rants with no citations on FB, or on youtube comments or some other cesspool of misinformation anytime.

When everyone, including you, resorts to ad hominem attacks, and can’t formulate even a basic rebuttal it doesn’t really challenge my argument, now does it? Really just shows you to be an internet tough guy who can’t carry on a conversation with people who don’t believe exactly as you do.

How sad for you.

Regardless if whether any of us agree or disagree with his opinion, Bubba is correct that this is a very poorly (non-existently) cited article. It reads as more of a rant or opinion piece. And throwing ad hominem insults about him (Bubba) and his choice of cars is lazy and a poor excuse for debate.

Yes, a Corvette I bought for my dying father to enjoy during his last two years of life that was then left to me after he passed...

And?

I read it perfectly fine. The only paragraph in which you provide anything resembling numbers gets caught, as I said, in the “correlation does not equal causation” trap.

“For one, they’re aerodynamically inefficient. If you opt for the largest wheel on a Tesla Model X, your range is reduced by about 10%. This is true…

“Production cars often imitate design elements of race cars to make them look sportier, but fat sidewalls have ruled in the top levels of stock car and open-wheel racing for decades.“

Yes, because the rules limited those particular classes to a small diameter wheel. Large diameter wheels have been used in every other…

A little friendly rib, I actually think you have a point, you just came off persnickety. 

What the what??? I just had to double check if this was Jalopnik.. I thought I was reading the LA TIMES. Well Bradley not to worry my 2017 suburban fits nicely in my driveway next to my jaguar super 8 and cooper s. Maybe you can park your model 3 at your Peloton class or at Whole foods. Good lord. 

No, there is nothing that YOU find funny here. I, on the other hand, find the headline full of WTF?! hilariousness. And when one thinks about the fact that the person doing the damage is 1: Chinese & 2: a woman driver, I mean the jokes write themselves.

They killed themselves due to their own negligence. I feel sorry for the child in the sense that she was born to such bad parents, but your feelings are irrelevant to the facts. This is no different than if they had over dosed huffing on paint.

It's unfortunate that this little girl had such MORONS for parents.

To add to the idiocy of this. Rear parking sensors are standard on the RX270