I will never understand this masochism.

I forgot how atrocious the C4 interior is. Thanks for the icky reminder.

Dude with name of loud_v8_noises says big deal regarding a good exhaust note? Interesting. One of the reasons I love my car is because of the admittedly not stock exhaust. Corsa performance + V8 is musical, and it doesn’t have the BMW tax (full 304SS exhaust is half what most of the BMW aftermarket is). Even stock it…

A PP Mustang has basically the same equipment level to an SS (non-1LE). A PP2 Mustang has similar equipment to a 1LE SS. Motortrend was dumb to compare a regular PP and not a PP2 with a 1LE SS, and they even stated themselves it wasn’t a really valid comparison given the equipment/tuning disparity. The normal PP for…

Is it superior at everything? Hell no. Is it a little bit quicker around a racetrack with a pro at the wheel? Sure. Can the everyman, even relatively experienced HPDE guys, access the performance differential between an SS (not 1LE) and a GT PP? Usually, no. Is the performance difference between them noticeable on the…

See what happens when you don’t do it manually?

Are you basing this on looks only? Because underneath the C3 was terrible.

You shut your mouth.

Agreed completely. You have to be a big-time skeptic, but you can get good quality if you work at it.

Ah yes, but your Mini has WAY more area under the power curve despite having similar peak. Torque is a thing.

If you accept a lower quality steel then it’s on you. There’s plenty of materials verification processes to understand what you’re getting. Or, you design your widget around the lower quality steel...

You live in an interesting economic theory land, and are making a lot of assumptions that may or may not be remotely accurate.
How do you know that the Chinese steel is, in fact, worse? Just because it’s made there? That alone shows your ignorance of materials processing. Yes, some raw materials sourced there is of…

I’m just eating my popcorn as everything I’ve said about Musk specifically, as well as Tesla, is coming true. Fantastic idea guy, brilliant at it, but his true role in this world isn’t to mass produce a product. Tesla has stepped into a mine field and is now realizing that they don’t know how to find the mines. They…

Add the Camaro to that list.

Designing, developing, validating and mass producing cars is incredibly difficult, and anyone who thinks otherwise has never been part of it. Every other company has either been doing it for decades or has been very risk averse in their early days so they could get good at building cars before they try to supplant the…

Quite literally over my (and probably thousands upon thousands of others) dead body will they ban driving. Glad to see Google is being sensible, for now. Make separate autonomous roads.

This exactly.

Giant truck, good sized wheel, tiny tire for the wheel.

Ford HAS to do that because they’ve been unable to develop and present a solid future-state strategy that gets investors excited. Their stock is in the dumps because of that, so in order to maintain good liquidity they must focus on their big margin stuff: Trucks, SUVs, and to a lesser extent, Mustangs. It’s their own…

I can’t say I disagree with having an NA engine. I love my 5.0L. I will say that despite the TT V6 and its air induction system likely weighing nearly the same as the LT1, it almost certainly sits further back in the chassis, an important thing for weight distribution. GM loves their SB V8s, so if they didn’t put it…