And then you hear “bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz” or “wrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr” when you hit the gas.

There are very few gear changes in autocross. Most courses, you shift into 2nd as early as makes sense and stay in it the entire course.

...except when the “can’t build them fast enough” is entirely due to the way they decided to go about building them. If they built their cars using the wisdom and knowledge of those who came before them, they’d have long ago hit their target. When it’s your fault, you just look like an idiot. When the market demands…

Too late. He built an assembly plant based on (currently) stupid concepts for how to build a car. Fixing that requires tearing it all up and essentially setting tens or hundreds of millions of dollars on fire.

Because Ford’s process for producing them wasn’t fundamentally flawed. They just needed to do the same thing more/faster.

They can’t build them fast enough because of their own idiotic decisions with respect to HOW to build them. There are no medals for that.

Makes some sense. Just like the fact that’s brought up about the rising temperature increasing the amount of water that can be held, as does the fact that more moist storms will be more massive and thus move slower, despite having more angular energy (storm intensity).

I’ve gotten there faster since I work in engineering in the auto industry. To see the utter lack of respect turns you really fast.

Yeah, it’s gotten so bad that I root for them to fail.

I’ve actually grown fairly negative on Tesla over the last year. The biggest reason is the following: rather than simply coming out with a world-changing car in the Model 3 (it could be/have been, even though it isn’t quite), they went and said “We’re the best, so we’re going to reinvent automotive manufacturing AT…

How exactly has Honda lost its way? I would prefer pretty much everything in their lineup to the Toyota equivalent.

No, he’s looking further into the corner/beyond the corner as you do in a racecar. Humans have binocular vision, which means that center beam is barely noticeable.

YES. Lexus RX drivers are the worst. They always look like they are lost.

You may not know this, but the pace car is basically hauling ass at 9/10ths, which is slow enough to be at 3 or 4 tenths for the actual racecars behind.

It is not difficult to launch. They are either total dweebs or sandbagged.

GM’s supercruise won’t let you do some of the things Tesla’s system does. It’s a better, more refined system, based on years of experience. They don’t want to open themselves up to what Tesla has.

The current one also has some the worst ergonomics and seating in any modern car I’ve been in, despite having plenty of adjustment. I was sore after an hour, as was my co-driver who felt exactly the same. I’ve literally been in track cars more comfortable for extended periods.

Them and every stancenation bro in the country. Cancerous.

Normally I’d agree with you, but Mazda buyers tend to be much higher enthusiast percentage than say Toyota or Honda.

““But since the power is so low, you’d just be short-shifting all the time,” one of Mazda’s people said in response to my complaints about the Signature trim’s lack of a six-speed. “Not enough people would buy it,” came the refrain. Yet in the same presentation, Mazda’s marketing folks bragged about the fact that the…