Don’t worry, people will show up with them to Drag Week this year I’m sure.  That’s when we’ll get repeated and fully observable results.

Yeah, I mean I wasn’t expecting them to deliver early because Tesla, but this must be the easiest car they’ve rolled out yet.

It doesn’t have to be that way, but when the budgets get that inflated you’ll never get your money back.  Nobody is running on a shoestring budget like it’s the 1970s and nearly everyone is buying their engines from Cosworth and you’ve got to get creative.  The rules have hampered innovation and have been dictated to…

I take it you enjoyed the Lewis/Nico situation.

They’ve been making F-1 engines for ages, they just weren’t running a team until they bought Brawn. I’d be surprised if they totally stopped making engines, and since Aston is running Merc engines now, MB leaving would be like the Red Bull-Tag Heuer(Renault) situation.

Sportscar racing is definitely gathering steam, particularly because with the multiple classes, you can effectively pick your relative budget ceiling and then do what you want, F1-style ‘pay to win’ isn’t absolutely necessary (though it has obviously still been possible, hello Toyota). A company also doesn’t actually…

Yeah, there are regular commercials around here for the big Lexus dealership in the capital offering to meet you at a local country club/golf course for a test drive and mentioning the complete concierge service for maintenance included in the price.

It’s pretty hard to cancel no-bid government contracts.

The problem is, as with the financial crash, everyone who worked for the government (and the entire private employee to government regulator pipeline that did actually exist) who understood how anything worked has long since either retired or gone to earn as much money as possible in the private sector.

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24 hours of Daytona started, ran, and finished.

The Daytona 24 hour race just finished. I used to complain about yall dropping the ball on covering race stuff. Now I don’t expect anything.  New year, fuck Spanner.

The Daytona 24 hour race just finished. I used to complain about yall dropping the ball on covering race stuff. Now I don’t expect anything.  New year, fuck Spanner.

Yes, no-one was seriously harmed (although that Tesla driver must have been born under a lucky star. I don’t care what car you’re in, move that impact a foot forward and nobody is walking away). Cars can’t realistically be built for this kind of impact, but that is a 3-row SUV and that is a structural failure point…

This could work, once all non-autonomous cars are off the road.

Take that and throw in some modern capitalist-feminist marketing and that sounds about right. Somehow Goop plays both sides.

Wait, so the new environmental regs are killing small cars for not meeting emissions standards (or potentially forcing more expensive modifications that will raise prices) but give a pass for the big gas guzzling SUVs and trucks?

That’s some impressive range for such a mediocre mileage number, I wonder if they’ll need to shrink that tank for the hybrid system when they roll that out.

Re: Alan Cumming

I think you mean “since Chef Boyardee”