These people just aren’t used to criticism and now that social media has somewhat raised everyone else’s voice above the background noise it used to be when they were able to cloister themselves in a media bubble, they’re struggling to cope with the fact that they are not, in fact, glorious geniuses whose inborn gifts…

If you watch WRC live 90% of the sound you hear is helicopter blades though.

The 914 has gone way up because of the cachet of ‘air-cooled porsche’, and while the -6 is the one that seems to be rising the most these days, the smart money is on the 2.0l because the parts will be cheaper and it was more powerful than the 6 to begin with. They’re still sadly overpriced and they had that engine-bay…

I mean, you’re the one who brought up Lovecraft.

It’s from the print edition of Road and Track that came out last week.

No, they were hand-built and the only ones in existence are the ones already in cars since the factory (it was built in the same facility as the ‘vette in KY) shut down for covid. It’s not coming back and they want to sweep it under the rug.

The Blackwing V8? You know that’s dead right?

On the one hand, current contact tracing research shows that something on the order of 97% of all super-spreading events occurred indoors, sunlight kills the virus, and it isn’t transmitted on surfaces.

You mean like how Polaroid didn’t move into digital photography despite having a lot of early research in it? Or Barnes and Noble not moving into online sales when they were the biggest book chain? Or Sears not doing the same with tools and appliances? Or Palm not releasing a mobile phone OS until after Blackberry had…

The start is doing what they did, which is the bare minimum, but the fact that it wasn’t spotted before this speaks volumes.

Someone sawzall’d a Renault logo in half diagonally for their logo, I guess?

Isn’t the common complaint from people who try doing that that the steering ratio is nowhere near fast enough so they can’t turn without getting their hands all crossed up and it’s a huge pain in the ass to drive it?

Yes, brute force machine learning is what they’ve been trying to do for decades since it’s the simplest method, but I don’t think anyone has figured out how big of a data cohort is necessary to actually become properly useful.  It’s worked reasonably well for things like Google Translate but it’s pretty rare that…

During the interview, Fox News host Ed Henry noted that “it isn’t every day you see people carrying long guns on the streets of America”

Well, maybe not a Gazoo, but privateers are still running Ford Fiestas in WRC.

I think most of this market segment was shopping the Mazda CX3, which is this with a lift kit (seriously, it’s incredible how tiny they are inside).  I don’t think it’s just that the small car market is dying, the car market in general is and people like throwing a little extra money for the lifted version.

Recessions don’t cause gas prices to go up, oil producer collusion and shitty international politics cause gas prices to go up.

Will we lose anything if Mitsubishi leaves?  Frankly if they fucked off I’d still consider it a far greater tragedy that we lost Suzuki.

it was probably a local track worker

I had pegged Kamala as the obvious pick months ago when talking with my Dem loyalist family, primarily because of all the things we’ve all been seeing about Amy and the fact that Amy never really managed to land with real traction. There was no way Warren was going to be picked after she didn’t manage to convince a…