6 spd, turbo, AWD, 300hp hatch, that if anything like the Yaris GR will be essentially a WRC homologation car. What isn’t there to be excited about?

I was feeling the same way until that GR Yaris dropped. If they can get half that personality and performance into the GR Corolla then it’s a total win. I’m hoping for more 90s Toyota personality to rear it’s head!

The first modern “sporty” BMW I drove was a test drive of a 2014 335 M-Sport and that car felt very ordinary unless you put everything in Sport+ mode. With that said, Sport+ mode was pretty great and I was even able to drift it around an empty traffic circle (the salesperson and my wife were both pissed).

I want to know more about that winter wiper one: that’s quite a take!

Still better than a DCT/PDK IMO.

99% of the people driving large SUVs, body on frame or unibody, would be better served by a minivan.

Formula 1 is not interesting. Not going to give people shit for watching it but I’m pretty damn tired of people telling me I should.. it’s just not interesting to me OK?

Not only do 80% of truck owners never really need a truck, but that they will tell you they get one to help friends move or pull someone out of a ditch, and then cannot be found on moving day and drive right past everyone stuck in said ditch.

A sports car isn’t a sports car unless it has THREE pedals and a shifter. Mashing little flappy pedals on the steering wheel steering and pushing the gas hoping the computer does the right thing, does not a sports car make. 

BMW’s future styling direction is genuinely abysmal - on track to be the worst in the U.S. market within this decade, and the sole thing that will keep the company afloat is brand recognition (because it sure as shit isn’t going to be reliability or heat seaters that require a fucking subscription).

All things being equal, winter tires will perform better than all-season tires in wintry conditions.

Please dish.

I dunno, keeping a spotlight on these troglodytes is a public good.

My favorite DC protest. Someone organized a protest against the 55 mph speed limit. They had a moving road block of cars going exactly 55 mph around the beltway during rush hour. Paralyzed the city. Complete chaos.

It’s the dilemma of the contemporary American conservative activist.

It’s ownership percent, rather than pure numbers. There are likely more F-150 drivers with DUIs than there are Contours still on the road, but there are so many F150s out there that the percentage of owners is smaller.

I read this as saying that the people who drove these cars were more likely to have DUIs - it compared the ratio between the number of people with DUIs driving the cars against the total number of people who drove that car.  So it was adjusted for the number of total vehicles on the road.

Lots of pick up trucks.

7 trucks