Lol no manual in a 335 hp, small-ish sports car. Flop.

*TYPO*

STOP PUBLICIZING STUPIDITY. STOP IT. STOP IT! 

Cast magnesium strut tower brace, one designed specifically to accommodate a supercharger. A brace in concept isn’t the patent, rather the unique design elements for a specific purpose.

Come again?

Except the official blew it dead instantly, not allowing for a recovery. 

In what way does the simple act of driving a sports car make one an asshole?

How are they excessive?

Unless not feasible, always back a truck in. It’s much easier.

4". Honestly it’s quite fine. I have more or less the same thing in my base Mustang and it’s perfectly adequate. Would I mind a bigger screen? No, but I didn’t want to spend $4000 for it. 

Oh geez, get over it. The car has character unlike most of the crap pumped out by most OEMs today.

Denial is a powerful impulse, I know.

There are far, far more people that think about cars like my uninformed aunt than the other way around. My usual reaction is this when I see people talk about cars/trucks like “my old car that weighed xyz amount less got the same fuel economy”, or even worse, “it’s a conspiracy, they could get us to 50-60 mpg cars if…

I have an uninformed aunt that thinks like this. The amount of creature comforts that are demanded, plus safety features that are either market competitive or regulated, in addition to the VAST increase in safety of new vehicles is where the weight comes from.

Conventional trucks have quite a bit less drag than cab overs, thus why the entire industry here is conventional. 

No, the designer pretty much gets to do whatever they want unless the engineer proves it to not be feasible. It’s intensely frustrating working with the studio designers as an automotive engineer.

You’re absolutely right. Still bad. Just not mouth-agape in horror bad. 

That....that actually looks good.

They’ll still cord if they don’t have much tread left.

I generally agree with everything you’re saying. We will need UBI within my lifetime (I’m 32).

That said, I completley agree with NDT that we need a new revolution in technology development sparked by something enormous. We did it in the 60s. We can do it again.