It’s funny to me when “compromise” is cast in a negative light. I love the compromise of a family hauler that also offers serious performance. Is it the “best”? No, but the magical compromise is that it actually offers creature comforts and utility along with performance that was unfathomable just 10-20 years ago.

Agreed with this take. The “this family car is faster than it has any right to be!” argument went out the window when super SUVs became faster than most supercars from >15 years ago. They are all fast, and they will all smoke just about anything. 

Where are you getting that number? C&D says 3.3s 0-60 and an 11.6@119 quarter mile.

Pretty sure that’s a Lambo, dude.

to embarrassingly lose a drag race to a family crossover

Lol, zero sympathy for this guy. The “Work Harder” writing under the wing is all I need to know to have a good idea of what this individual is like. 

People are buying cars on extended max credit they otherwise would never dream of buying. Partly necessity but mainly wanting it.

The ‘buy a cheap car’ part is the hard part!

businesses added more than 500,000 jobs in January alone

Now I have no reason not to get PSVR2 and this sim racing rig. I already have a PS5 and GT7. So it’ll be the perfect sim-racing lite setup that I can just pick up and play without all the associated costs and pretentiousness of hardcore sim-racing.

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 last few years of Honda Civic Type R. It’s a great car for sure, but I can’t get past the stupid looking aero.

Are you okay? Blink twice if you need help.

I vaguely remember years ago this was basically Teslas intent. They didn’t really want to make cars, what they did want to do was make battery packs and a nation wide charging network.

I wonder if they are going to open up the least convenient chargers in the least convenient locations based on their statistics. Hey, this charger in the middle of nowhere gets used once a week for 20 minutes—open that up! I would imagine that they wouldn’t necessarily need to open up the chargers that are already…

Came here to say this.. The new Accord lights are painful, even if you look away

Anecdotally, I feel like Honda/Acura has aggressively bright headlights. Back when I was a teenager, my parents had an early ‘00s Acura TL, and they got flashed constantly by people thinking the high beams were on. Fast forward to today, my last couple cars have had pretty bright (IMO) LED headlights, but I don’t…

If I had a nickel for every time the inside of my skull got X-Rayed by an oncoming Acura MDX...

The answer is not adaptive headlights - that’s a nice bonus, but doesn’t do anything about the higher-and-higher headlights, the alignment drifting over time, and the illegal aftermarket mods. The first screams out for regulation - a simple rule that says all headlights must be mounted at or below a certain height…

The promised benefits are definitely doable. Have a Pacifica Hybrid that just went almost 2,700 miles between fill ups, doing the daily school run (about 30 mi. daily) and daytime errands. Plug it in every night and during the day (WFH). Gets about the promised electric range (26-31 mi vs. 30 mi rating, usually on the…