I have two cars now with 6mt and, I really think they’re designed mostly for track use. I find myself frequently skipping gears when just driving around. I’ve often thought to myself that a 5 speed would be adequate... So long as it had the same overdrive as the 6 speed.

Well, the Pilot Sport Cup’s are not drag tires. But that said, how warm were they? Did you measure with a pyrometer? The car is good for sub 4-second 0-60, so if you weren’t able to get under 4.5s, then I’d question how warm the tires really were or how good your driver was a producing a good launch in a Mustang. You…

Yeah, I wasn’t even talking about lowering the car’s actual performance. Just lowering the advertised number cause, who actually cares?

Yeah, man, I think when you’re comparing a front engine, rear drive car to a rear engine, rear drive car; you need to really scrutinize your expectations. When you have over 60% of your weight on the rear tires, you’re going to get better traction. It’s basic physics.

Yeah, the Mustang will be 200# lighter....so light.

You know, I’m not sure it would have been any less attractive at 666 HP than it was at 707. It certainly would have been at least as memorable. right?

The auto companies play to their audience. Most people buying these cars EXPECT their tires to last 40-50k miles. They don’t want to replace tires at 10k miles. They’re pissed when they have to. And the PP mustangs came with Pzero’s. Even the Pzero’s would spin the tires at 60 mph if you tried hard enough. Most of…

And there’s the rub. The tires exist, but idiots buy these cars and then bitch about tire wear and cost. There’s a dozen sub 200 treadwear tires out there that work great, but they cost a lot to run.

Hellcat...probaby. Demon? Probably not. This car (like previous GT500's) will weigh around 4000#. It won’t have enough of a weight advantage to make up for the power disparity between it and the Demon. But it wont’ need to. The only people that care will just do some mods and make it outrun a stock Demon.

It did sound really good, though.

For real. I was in traffic going around a turn and the rear end of my car hit a slick patch; my car is old enough that it has no stability control, but I caught it no problem and still put the car in the correct lane for the turn. I immediately thought of how that, rather mundane, maneuver probably looked like a…

Sounds like their insurance needed a better lawyer. The description you gave of the accident and the design of the barrier system both seem to point to a driver who was severely at fault in both the cause of the crash and the severity of the crash; and your wife’s father seems to have put some good effort into…

Does it rain oil in Texas or something? I have never in my entire life even come close to losing control in the rain...and I’ve autocrossed in a torrential downpour before!

To encourage a “community” develop by making sure people are excluded from the discussion. Duh!

I have had similar thoughts about those stickers. “So you’re going to have even slower reaction times and are going to drive even more cautiously than you probably need to. Thanks for letting me know that I should pass you as soon as possible.”

Technically incorrect. If you are distracted and do not identify hazards before it’s too late to initiate a maneuver to avoid the hazard, then you were not in control of your vehicle; you were merely as passenger in the driver’s seat. The vast majority of collisions are 2-fault collisions (even if the police…

The X4 is in the $400 range too. Although,I worry the camera isn’t as good as the 5x’s camera.

I have 5 bikes. Only 1 cost me less than a year’s worth of gasoline. And commuting on that bike would be hell.

Strange failure for a Lenco...wonder if the root cause was some kind of linkage failure that engaged counter-rotating gears. Not sure that really makes sense with Lenco’s, though.

Why does it have fake exhaust ports?!