Not to put too fine a point on it, but fuck them for taking taxpayer money for a facility that, under the terms of their contract with the Muppet Master, cannot be used by the people that supported it the most. The “no HPDE/track days” clause they agreed to was a huge slap in the face to a very large group of…

I have a hard time dredging up sympathy after the dicking around the track management did when after they took buckets of tax money and stopped HPDE, track days and other ‘lower class’ things for the more upscale, mega rich Texas snobs.

If your whole plan rests on Bernie not actively screwing you over a barrel, you…

Especially since the NA Miata has an alooominum hood. Making a perfectly good ally panel look like rusted steel ranks right up there with stick on carbon fiber weave.

You what will ruin the paint job on an entire car? Old bathroom towels.

You what will ruin the paint job on an entire car? Old bathroom towels.

Water spots. And dust that gets kicked up by the wind and sticks to the still-drying car.

Water spots. And dust that gets kicked up by the wind and sticks to the still-drying car.

Of course they do. You can’t push something without a push back.

Damn, this guy must be on a whole assortment of government watch lists.

Revving to 9000 is never a bad thing

What’s better is the stock hood on those cars are aluminum, so they would’ve had to get an aftermarket steel one to make it rust

I am a (non-stanced) Miata owner, and I hate stanced Miatas.

I can agree with the WRX/STI assessment. I am one of those people who has a ‘16 STI with a 400-600 payment.

^ I was an Econ major.

The argument is that the antenna in the vehicle is better than that in your mobile device, so connections are stronger. One can also add the car to an AT&T plan (and maybe some others) as well, so it shares the same data limits as the rest of one’s devices. Still, I find it astonishing that it’s the one thing that…

the advertising only pops up when you stop moving, like at a red light. It may be annoying to see advertising, but let’s remember, we used to pay for GPS, this is free, continuously updated and auto-reroutes to reduce driving time. Do you really need to look at the GPS constantly, or like me, do you glance at it when…

Another neat innovation would be some logic that, when I’m being re-routed through residential areas during rush hour, will bring me to an actual traffic light if I’m going to need to make a left turn onto an “orange” impacted thruway.

I do the same! Waze should implement a “reliability score” for users - if people are constantly removing your reported hazards, you are probably just a Waze points addict and your reports should be considered less reliable.

The problem is that too may idiot Wazers over-report every stopped vehicle to earn Waze points, including unattended cars that are safely off the shoulder into the grass. So it becomes a bit like crying wolf and the safety value is completely lost.

At times, I get so annoyed with it in the SF Bay with “vehichle stopped on shoulder” that I sometimes commit a cardinal Waze-sin: I mark it as “not there”. And I’m Waze Royalty; both here, and back in my home state, so once I hit that button it vaporizes off the map.

Still, though, I can’t help but wonder how many…

3 ways Google can turn Waze into the ultimate driving app.

Ha, yes. Sometimes stopped on shoulder is good; it makes you check if vehicle is too close to road/person working on it. But people will even report DOT vehicles 10 feet off the shoulder in the grass.