CAN CONFIRM!  When I bought the pro wheel and pedals I also got a Playseat, and they work well together.  FWIW, I’m 6'3, 245 and I fit in it just fine.  

The back straight ISN’T, it’s banana shaped, and the line is to the right (next to the wall).  It slopes away from the wall, and you don’t have to go very far out there before things get squirrely.  So any attempt at that would be hazardous. 

They could have REAL problems modifying PIR. There’s lots of wetlands in the vicinity, and the only EASILY modifiable thing is that they could skip the chicane. But the problem with this is that it was added because CART cars were getting too fast going down into turn 1, and there wasn’t enough runoff there. They…

Just found out that they’re going to run PIR here in the Portland area. THAT should be interesting as IndyCar runs it, as do the SCCA classes. We can FINALLY see where the cars slot into the hierarchy.

Get your bets in early!  How much slower than an IndyCar are they going to be!

Huh!  Thanks for the info, I’ll check out the schedule, and watch the races that take place on tracks that I know.  (I think I saw a highlight from Mexico City last year where they had shorted THAT track.  So they’re still up to that in some places?)

YES, exactly! I watched the first 2-3 seasons, and just got tired of “We’re going to run Monaco!” (But we’re going to take a shortcut that cuts out everything up the hill). And “We’re going to race in a parking lot”, or “We’re going to race on the tarmac at an airport”. WHO CARES!?! Run some real tracks and get back…

As a Portland-area resident, and guy who has tracked PIR MANY times, it’s a great track, but IndyCar runs there. So if the FE cars are slow, it’ll show. Badly. I assume they would NEVER have considered this with the Gen1 or Gen2 cars for JUST that reason, but now with the Gen3 cars they’re less scared of some guy in a…

Yes, and then GOD HELP YOU.  Hoovie had one that he sold to Tavarish, who replaced the engine, and promptly sold it, because it was stupidly expensive to get parts for, and what a nightmare to work on.

Only time will tell if the “limited edition” build numbers help stem their historic depreciation curve.

Some non-sophisticated car buy trying to escape an upside-down situation in a different car.  (Might need a lot of work to fix it, or something similar).

Wasn’t YangoWango an old Ted Nugent song?

THIS!  The last sentence especially.  “VTOL ain’t easy”.  It’s like trying to land a unicycle on a highwire that’s moving.  

And the Osprey was a great example.  When it was first released to the services there were crashes, and stories of it being “unsafe at any speed”, and the like.  Now?  I don’t read about them crashing, and I see them flying on adsb all the time.

“Cracked in 3...2...1...”

John Deere set up their tractors to only allow the dealers to work on them. Then, some enterprising lads from behind the iron curtain hacked the shit out of their stuff, and you can now replace ANYTHING.

This will happen again.

Now *THAT* I would associate with the crunch.  I owned 2 3-series, and always got a loaner when I had them serviced.  

Maybe because you can get an oil change at Jiffy Lube while you wait. But you’re opting to take it to the dealer, and pay more, and wait HOURS. Maybe because other brands have set the bar too high. Maybe because the initial price of the car is such that you’d EXPECT the same level of service that you would have gotten…

This was the case before the crunch as well.  It was always a debate.  It was NEVER a question when the car was under warranty, but the first service AFTER that, NOPE!  

Just so you know, there are QUITE A FEW 6-digit G90s these days. (Most of the models with the electric supercharger are over 100k). But we agree COMPLETELY on the dealer experience. When I used to take my Mercedes to the dealer, there was no question I was getting a loaner. Even if it was just for an oil change, and…

To the surprise of absolutely no one who has ever tried to deal with one.