You do the same internet tough guy.

OK...and what does that have to do with the Corvette? Other than being one of my two small-wheel cars, what relevance does that car have to anything I said?  Why are you all so obsessed with it?

And what, exactly, is everyone disagreeing with? The need for evidence to support an argument? I’m perfectly fine going…

Swing and a miss.  0 for 2.

Not a boomer...try again.

I probably should have said “larger” rather than “large”. Not sure if that was a slip of the keys or a slip of the mind. But I was not claiming that using the biggest wheels was advantageous, only that other racing series that had a choice on wheel size were not using 15" wheels like F1/NASCAR.

And yeah, agreed that big…

Obviously not worth arguing with when all you have are personal attacks. Really shows where your moral center is at when you feel justified in attacking someone for doing nothing more than asking for evidence to support an argument.

...it means I fact check things rather than just believing anything and everything that gets tossed my direction. It means I value evidence to support arguments, not just believing whatever pops into someone’s head because they happen to write a blog. It means I critically evaluate data to determine where people are…

When everyone, including you, resorts to ad hominem attacks, and can’t formulate even a basic rebuttal it doesn’t really challenge my argument, now does it? Really just shows you to be an internet tough guy who can’t carry on a conversation with people who don’t believe exactly as you do.

How sad for you.

Its a true story. My dad had a lung transplant almost 11 years ago. When he started going into rejection a few years ago I happened across a rough, but running and driving, C3 Corvette for next to nothing. He was supposed to get his ‘Vette after surviving the transplant, but life got in the way and he never ended up…

Sorry, still waiting on your point...

It says a lot about people that they can’t separate an attack on a poorly written article from an attack on the opinion (which I stated I agree with).

We’re defined by our tactics. If we let bad arguments slide when they’re in our favor, we have no ground to stand on when we attack bad arguments that are against our…

No argument. Objectivity is that bigger brakes will perform better as brakes. Objectivity is also that the better performance does come at a cost to other factors and how one weighs those objective facts is where subjectivity comes into play.

But the author claimed small wheels are *quantitatively* better. Meaning…

Yes, a Corvette I bought for my dying father to enjoy during his last two years of life that was then left to me after he passed...

And?

Whether or not they are required on the street has no bearing on whether or not they are better. Larger brakes are quantitatively better than small brakes. To ignore the benefit is lazy. He would have been better off taking your approach of addressing the usefulness of it. But even then, you are now adding subjectivity…

I read it perfectly fine. The only paragraph in which you provide anything resembling numbers gets caught, as I said, in the “correlation does not equal causation” trap.

“For one, they’re aerodynamically inefficient. If you opt for the largest wheel on a Tesla Model X, your range is reduced by about 10%. This is true…

“Production cars often imitate design elements of race cars to make them look sportier, but fat sidewalls have ruled in the top levels of stock car and open-wheel racing for decades.“

Yes, because the rules limited those particular classes to a small diameter wheel. Large diameter wheels have been used in every other…

That struck me as odd too. My guess is they are bragging that it is at full weight, but then...why wasn’t it before?

...that’s still not great. Willow Springs Raceway averages 96-97 F over the summer. Meaning quite a few days are warmer than that. I’m sure there are other tracks across the country with similar weather patterns.

“During the technical presentation, the Corvette engineers also made it a point to inform everyone the car’s cooling has been validated to 100 degrees Fahrenheit with the air conditioning running and a full tank of gas.”

...that’s still concerning to me. 100 F happens quite a lot across this country. When I lived in…

My argument really has nothing to do with charm. Every state has its flaws and California is certainly no exception - it has plenty. The entire point is that, much to the chagrin of certain people, California is a very significant part of what makes the United States of America what it is. Without it, the US would be M…