Yes, you still have to select your drive gear.

The antithesis to this is the Escalade IQ which has no start sequence.

Morality and ethics are the antithesis to accumulating vast amounts of wealth. IE, they cost you money. Capitalists aren’t interesting in losing money.

George Russell: 

Oh I didn’t miss anything. It’s just that your point is wrong. When they’re racing, yes. When they’re on public roads with public traffic and pedestrians, no. The FIA sets the rules for WRC...you can find the black and white there. 

They weren’t on a “course”. They were on a public road with public traffic in between stages. It’s a shame they couldn’t have had some parts of road closed for some shenanigans and spectator delight but they didn’t. Had that gone wrong and someone got hurt...some folks would’ve been in big trouble.

Just slap one of these bad boys (slightly larger, of course) over some 360° stands that are just above ground level.

I’m not saying EV isn’t efficient in stop and go. I’m saying the act of acclerating from a stop is where the majority of your power is lost. Coasting at 18mph for hours on end is not an accurate reflection of a real world situation.

Great mileage but my pea-sized brain is telling me the test isn’t as “real world” as they want us to believe. Sure, 18mph may be the average and that’s what they stuck to but the reason stop-go traffic is inefficient is because you’re....stopping and going. That means sometimes you’re doing 0 and sometimes you’re…

He never was too bright, that one. 

Maybe there’s an antique vehicle exclusion?

It’s all to do with how the rules are worded. What matters is “whose” corner it is and that’s defined simply by the racer who reaches the apex of the corner first. That’s all fine and dandy unless you intentionally goes so late on the brakes that there is no way you’re making the corner on optimal line. If you get…

It’s not just divebombs for passing that he’s prone to doing. It’s defending from the inside, taking a tight entry and then opening the steering wheel on exit leaving his competitor no room. This is why he has so many “crash or yield” scenarios when he isn’t the fastest on track and able to walk away from the field.…

When will people learn...you decide what car you want and what price you’re willing to pay before you even shop. When you find the car but it’s above your price, you call the dealer and you tell them what you are willing to pay OUT THE DOOR. They can either agree to the price or not. If not, you shop on. Either…

Nothing artificial about you, broseph. You’re the real deal.

Unacceptable levels of always-been-there river bottom stickiness are correspondingly related to unacceptable levels of floaty water parts.

Rougher than napkin math but my rule of thumb has always been, for every 10 degrees down, you lose 1psi. So if your garage is 60 and it’s 20 outside, you’ll lose 4psi. Not a huge deal if your tires are at 30. If you’re at 20, though, that’s a 20% drop. Especially if you drive a BMW.

The civil lawsuits (and subsequent settlements) that are going to be lobbed will be massive. 

Yep, you can count me as one of the injured by one of these. I was not in proper gear but, to my defense, I was a kid and didn’t grow up riding ATVs (I was a dune buggy kid). We were riding through waist high grass at a fairly decent clip, there was a fallen log that I didn’t see and after I hit it, both of my feet…