Pretty interesting story. Racing, for the most part, doesn’t have a singular female personality that’s always around anymore. For the most part, ‘grid girls’ are just models standing on the grid holding something. They really are there to only be eye candy.

I love wagons from the standpoint of being lower to the ground and ability to handle like a car while still being very practical. The the fact of the matter is, SUVs and CUVs these days aren’t that far off, and the high ride height means you can potentially go more places and buyers are going more and more for that…

Yeah, it was pretty insane how quickly it fell from those mid 1990s highs. 1994 had how many F1 champions? 3? Mario, Mansell and Fittipaldi? I think there might have been 1 more at some point earlier in the ‘90s. Piquet?

Yeah, it really was astounding just how competitive late ‘90s CART was with 5 chassis makers and 4 engine suppliers... not to mention 2 tire suppliers. Although there clearly were winners there too. Lola was all but abandoned until Castroneves with the underfunded Hogan team showed it was actually making a good turn…

I don’t wholly disagree, though as others have pointed out, part of the reason for the large break is because the Toronto race had to be cancelled because they haven’t rolled out their vaccine program effectively enough to keep their COVID numbers in check...

Exactly! For every day driving, they have great usable power that you don’t have to beat the crap out of the thing to extract that power from it (see: most Hondas from the era).

Here’s the thing. The engine has it where it counts: simplicity, reliability, decent mid range torque for the application and, surprisingly efficient.

Makes about as much sense as any other Soros/Rothschild/Jew-are-bad conspiracy. Or Q conspiracies, for that matter.

both you and @polka1 made the same basic observation. And you’re not wrong. One of the reasons why small farms have had an increasingly hard time competing is because of the corporatization of farming. Just like any small business owner, competing against a large conglomerate with vastly more resources than you have…

The right to repair deal hits close to home for me as well. I’ve been working in auto repair shops since I was 19 and am well-versed with how manufacturers can hide important repair information within their proprietary scan tool software. There are OK aftermarket solutions that can get you close, but there will always…

This is exactly the type of common sense suggestion that representatives in government seem wholly incapable of bringing to the table anymore. Frustrating.

That was a nice break of luck for Newgarden. How many times was he in control of a race only to have it stripped away in the final laps this year? Two in a row, even. Stripped away in the final laps of Detroit #2 as O’Ward blasted by him. Then on the final restart at Road America as his transmission issue finally went…

It largely is urban vs rural everywhere in the country. Showing county by county red vs. blue during a presidential election bares that out obviously. Even in California. There is a surprising amount of red in that state to those who haven’t actually visited the state. They just assume the whole thing is one giant,…

To be fair to the constitution, it’s only guaranteeing that the GOVERNMENT is not going to limit your free speech.

Oh, you mean someone other than Jim Harbaugh still buys khakis?? Weird.

I’m going to half-defend Piech here.

Hey... my 2001 Golf has 300k miles and still operates fantastic, thankyouverymuch.

Nope. Last model year for the 4 cylinder diesels was 2015. There are a small handful of 2016 MY V6 TDIs in Touaregs and Audi models around as well, but that’s a whole other line of bigger vehicles.

Not gonna lie, WHEN the convertible top on a VW Eos is working correctly (they can be fickle things) they’re pretty neat-o. AND, it’s also a giant glass sunroof that can open separately from putting the entire top down.

I’m sure the full story will come out soon. Something about a tow company illegally hauling cars with no license or insurance and a lawsuit is now involved.