I don't think he understands... we were offering up the "out" and letting them say that they were doing it for regulatory reasons. Instead, they threw it back in our faces and just reminded us that they're the ones who make the decisions; history, pedigree and existing fans be damned.

@smalleyxb122: Of all the comments that expressed this sentiment, yours did it the best.

@zacarious: It only dies if you let it. Get a cheap, small displacement car. Put a turbo in it. Cage it. Rally it. Flog it. Love it. When your progeny is born, educate them. Speak of it like your elders spoke of the War to End All Wars: slogging through the mud in the cold and the damp, risking life and limb for what…

Until they pull off that sheet, I'm going to pretend that its big booty is due to a midship-mounted engine and not two rear seats suitable only for your amputee children.

The good news is that now Lotus' upcoming line is all "small cars".

@-Amateur: Can-Am's a close second, but Group B wins forever in my mind.

@MountainK1ng: Oh yeah, I agree with that, I'm just feelin' snarky today.

@LarsVargas: True, I just figured she'd be more eager to cut science some slack, considering how much of her slack has been cut by science.

You wanna talk bullshit? How 'bout that photo? That's not how a woman born in 1946 normally looks.

@Dougomite: Really? They kept throwing 10 day trials at me that I never bothered with until a sizeable group of my coworkers started playing.

Ah yes... to the car, "correct left / throw weight right / slide left / countersteer" can look like "throw weight left / slide right / countersteer / steer".

AAAAALLL MY HEROES ARE DEAD AN' GONE....

@I Can be Stig?: Well, it is the BEST blue. [drives off in an Impreza]

@Tossed Pissed Mazda3hatch sideways: I'm guessing the language you're talking about might be Python or - more likely - Lua. The harder part is parsing / decrypting the data, which Tesla obviously cares about you not having access to.

Love it.

@hazelnut1112: That would surely be harder on the developers than on the fans.

So, he's saying that - as a mechanic - he's had no problem with the cars. I completely believe him.

I think this guy lets lots of things stand between him and a shower.

My pick wasn't on the list, so I can only assume that it must be safe to give into my deviant desires and buy one.

@PunkyChipsAhoy: Word.