It seems to me the issues with wet races and red flags are out getting out of control. The entire field started on inters, and then Sainz hydroplaned off and several other cars spun. I heard commentary about full wets being the correct tire for the conditions, but they were deemed “too slow” by the drivers...the same…

Moneytron ain’t got nothing on the Gamble-Tron. Cincinnati damn near covered those 2,000 points.

This is some Reno 911 level work right here.

Fuck this guy and his ilk. And as I happen to live in Carlisle, PA, home of one of his victims, I hope he never sees the outside of a prison wall again.

Seems full BEV might be good for short haul, but a fuel cell would be better for long haul? Long haul can’t exactly stop every 3 hours to refuel...for 30+ minutes. 

LOL!

I’m also guessing the Venn diagram of Uber driver + homeowner with access to overnight charging is pretty damn small. As someone else pointed out, it could require a lot more DC fast charging, which is both expensive and kills the battery.

Wonder how that would work insurance-wise? Not sure I’d want someone else driving a car I owned. I know Uber offers insurance, but I know it also has loopholes that have caught people out. If your buddy (or a stranger) crashes your car and maims a busload of orphans under a condition Uber does not cover, I’m pretty…

What? The transition from CRT to LCD/HD TV is in no way whatsoever comparable to ICE-EV transition. To begin with, most people just transitioned because it was cost-effective to junk their $400 CRT for a $600 flat screen, a relatively painless decision.  Nobody at scale is junking their $30,000+ ICE for new EVs in the…

“Strategy malpractice”, LOL!

Wow, nice! There is an early 2000's Prelude parked a few streets over from me, and damn that styling holds up great so many years later. I get the Celica’s looks were a bit polarizing, but the Prelude has such great proportions. Well kept!

I think they key is they don’t have to charge such a premium...but they can.

Good for them for getting out and driving!!! But, the (apparent) nature of their talent I guess shows, as 5 seconds over 38 is an eternity, and the Ferrari is barely down on power to the Lucid and has to weigh a good 1,5000 lbs less, AND should be on badass tires.  Would love to see the Stig in their car, I’m guessing…

Agree with you there, I “knew what I had”. But I still think Toyota’s from this era are so reliable, that on a test drive if it seems to rev well and the VVTi kicks in, it’s probably good to go. Funny story, when we replaced my wife’s TDI buy-back in 2018, she wanted an SUV, so we were looking at X3, Q5, and she got a…

No doubt. I got into autocross with mine and it is terrible for that, because living in second gear from 20 to 40 is no-man’s land. And yeah, it would not go into first except at a dead stop. The upside was you could roll stop signs at 1 mph in second and it would pull just fine (albeit slowly) with no bucking. My…

Which is why I phrased it “one of the first...”. Should also clarify as n/a engines. Around that time the Ferrari 355 made waves for it’s high specific output over 100 HP/L, but needed 5 valves and engine rebuilds every other week to do it.

I owned a 2000 GT-S from new from June 2000 to June 2020...when a deer took it out. 246,000 miles? It’s just getting warmed up, I got 382,000 from mine before the deer. These photos taken just before that, and you can see I kept it looking brand new inside and out for all that time. I replaced my clutch at 176,000 and…

My family owed a 1973 450 SE in the mid-80's. My dad, a school teacher, had wanted nothing more than to own a Mercedes. Unfortunately he had to settle for a car my mom eventually dubbed “Hitler’s Revenge”. I dare say the repair bills from the 2 years we owned that car caused my dad to retire a full decade later than…

Found the root cause of this sinking: Chop.  And that captain didn’t know shit about chop.

LOL, air down the tires.  The poor-mans air springs.