“What advantages does this motorcar have over, say, a rusty 1949 Willys — which I could also afford.”

Holy crap, y’all missed the most important detail in the press release: this is going to be a fan car! Just like the Brabham BT46B!  FRICKIN AWESOME!!!

HELL YES.

any excuse to post some images of my favorite car will do!

PSA (and this goes for the trailers in the OP as well): Youtube allows you to turn on auto-transcribed closed captions and then automatically translate them into English.

The best thing about the Puma was its ad.

my favorite manta story: so, in 1981 walter f. roehrl (the automotive chuck norris, imo) wins the WRC drivers championship in an opel ascona 400. which was basically as beige a midsize german sedan as you could possibly get (though souped up, obviously, for competition — it still falls under the category of ‘group B…

Back when Top Gear and Fifth Gear were one, and just Top Gear. I wanted the Ford Puma so bad when I first saw this. I still want it.

Ok, Mazda. I want you to hear me out on this...

Inspiration.

I like the chart! I think a lot depends on where you come from too and what’s considered normal. Here in Ireland I grew up AMAZED to see a Ford Scorpio with a 2.8 V6 and in later years the 2.9 V6 Cosworth. If the owner was nearby I’d ask them to start it up so I could hear it roar!

If we are going to talk F1 engine noises, there’s only one video worth watching, and while it’s hard to pick a favorite, I think the introduction of the 1996 F310 is the one that does it for me.

Jean Ragnotti:

Heated mirrors. With too many winters under my belt, scrambling around for something small enough to scrape the inch thick frozen drizzle from the mirrors in hypothermia weather is not something I look forward to.

Its a bad deal all around. I mean, the driver was cutting it WAY too close for safety. On the other hand, spectators are standing in a active race course with conditions that make it hard to see let alone drive. The spectator was damn lucky it happened on sand though, he’d be in a lot worse shape on something a little…

My favorite AI related post in recent memory (don’t even care if it’s real or not, it’s hilarious):

My favorite genre of used car is “super normal, everyday car that has suspiciously low miles and is inexplicably in amazing condition.”

“I will go back to my porch to yell at kids on my lawn now.”

MAKE AMERICA SHIFT AGAIN!

Regardless of single/dual prop, there is always a reduction gearbox used with a turboprop or turboshaft engine since the load (prop, rotor, generator etc.) will always need to run at a much lower rpm than the turbine. The only exception to this are turbofan bypass engines (even some of those have reduction gearboxes).