I don’t know if this is a case of horsepower being too accessible so much as a platform being woefully inadequate to handle it but my cousin used to drive an SRT4 caliber like in the header picture. Soft economy car body with obnoxiously stiff suspension and no tire sidewall to speak of (I think his had 20" wheels…

To add to this one, double visors. My commute to and from work has the sun constantly going back and forth on either side of my A-pillar so I’m swapping the sun visor at least a dozen times per drive.

“with some trickle-down tech from the hybrid single seater series”

I’m assuming the little bump you’re talking about is the flattened bottom of the steering wheel. My WRX has it as well and it’s not that big of a deal since my hands are only there during some very tight parking lot steering (and in theory it can help with leg clearance during ingress/ egress but that’s not a big…

Well this article is from the same guy who got ripped off to the tune of about $1,000 by a shady state inspection mechanic and wrote a whole article about how he felt good about the experience. He’s a complete hack and the furthest thing from a car person I’ve ever seen write for Jalopnik so this is just par for the…

In addition to this, in the initial (black shorts) roll over clip, there’s hardly any cracking through the windshield (somehow). When Pog is in the car as it’s rolling, it suddenly has massive spiderwebbing and shards of glass all over the dash. either the windshield exploded after it already completed its roll, or…

BMW M cars have a significant range of configurations that they’ve seen.

From a complexity standpoint this would be simpler but Torch’s idea has the advantage of rotating near the lid’s center of gravity which would make the flipping job require significantly less force (also reducing loading on the pivot point, etc). There’s advantages to both ideas I guess.

Dude, lay off the fucking comma key already.

Maybe, just maybe, it’s because Zagato has been making unattractive cars for several years now. It’s been a long time since they’ve put out anything that’s better than the car it’s based on.

Why don’t we go dyno some duramax in 1st gear and see what it puts out. Most vehicles’ power is measured at whichever gear gives a 1:1 gear ratio, these electric vehicles are not, hence an insane torque number. Doesn’t stop EV manufacturers from using whatever number suits them though. 

“I have been religious about not letting my car inspection expire ever since”

The German Grand Prix was an incredibly chaotic race with constant cycles of rain and drying and rain again. Teams were taking 3, 4, and 5 pit stops (a typical race sees 1 or occasionally 2 per car) and quite a few drivers ended up crashing out. It made for quite the spectacle to watch.

Only one more DNF in races but Hamilton had significantly more failures in quali which directly resulted in Rosberg wins. Hamilton had to fight from 10th or below on 4 occasions and Nico never did. I’m really not a Hamilton fan and I’ll say Rosberg was handed the championship on a platter of Hamilton car failures. The…

“Big issues that F1 is reported to be considering are human rights, gender equality, and media freedom and safety”

That person has clearly never been to Austin.

The thing to note here is that according to Ricciardo’s camp (and they backed this up by providing dozens of emails) claims that while Beavis attempted on multiple occasions to make a contract stating he was getting 20% of Ricciardo’s salary, this was denied every single time. So despite what his former manager…

I think VW knew exactly how much they’d lose making the Veyron and just accepted that so they could flex their engineering muscle. From that aspect I don’t think it’s a flop but from a volume perspective it might be. It took years for all the Veyrons to sell while the P1, 918, and LaFerrari all sold out in a fraction…

Even on the extremely unlikely chance that Haas did agree to that, there’s no way it states they’d be out performing Red Bull like the tweet seems to think.

Good riddance to Rich Energy. Nobody’s going to miss you.