You don’t say.

“The tyres and the wheels are the dirtiest area of the car, they cause huge disruption in the airflow,” says Brawn. “We are starting to look at devices that can stabilise the flow as it comes of the wheel. It’s maturing as we go along.”

Even if you never use it, look at all the money you saved!

I’ve always wanted to drive a Xenomorph head.

“there were flaws in the study, the opposite conclusion is true”

Great car, not great price.

Those results look... strange to me. My spidey sense is tingling... let’s look a little closer, shall we?

Here at Jalopnik, we looove the Fiat 124 Spider Abarth.

I want to like it, but unfortunately I happened to check the prices of B6 S4 wagons yesterday... they’re only a little bit more expensive than this.

Even if it can’t be registered it’d be a decent utility vehicle for farm duty, and a heck of a lot cooler than any used side-by-side you’ll get for that price. You can’t register an old tractor, either, but people still buy ‘em and use ‘em.

This is the correct response. In the interest of science, of course.

I think it’s a bit more complicated than this. I’d posit that you’d still see this effect even if the car’s mass was extremely concentrated in the center of the car, such that the effects of gravitational acceleration at the wheels themselves would be negligible.

RWD and AWD - anything where there are drive wheels in contact after the front is off the ground.

Too much throttle too quickly and too early out of the corner, not enough time on a skid pad for the “recovery muscle memory” to take over (or to know not to stab the throttle there in the first place).

Is there some reason why this person was specifically being filmed coming around the corner, or was it just a bit of good (for us) fortune that the videographer decided to focus on the ‘Vette rather than the Porsche and Mercedes leading it?

I’m not sure, actually! I haven’t thought through the vehicle dynamics of acceleration vs. braking vs. maintenance throttle when then front wheels are off the ground...

That flight path is pretty much about what I’d expect outside of a highly tuned and controlled jump. The rear wheels were almost certainly still in contact with the ground when the front wheels were airborne, which would create unbalanced rotational forces (assuming he was still accelerating at launch, which seems…

Now that isn’t to say that people in high tax areas shouldn’t shop outside their region to get savings

I own this car’s dark grey twin. I love it. It goes like stink, hauls stuff, and gets me up steep unpaved roads in the winter. I think someday they’ll reach minor classic status and well-tended examples will appreciate in value.

Two reasons: