Wouldn’t tall and narrow be the way to go if you have a super heavy vehicle? Take advantage of all that weight and sink the tires to the hard bottom layer.

Well he was averaging 165mph, so 120 would have been at the lower end of the speeds he was running.

The problem is the safety regs weren’t written to take trucks and SUVs into account. NCAP just created an arbitrary test where they smash a ball into a car’s hood, and made the recommendation of having extra space between the top of the engine and the hood.

What’s funny is that it was pedestrian safety regs that forced those higher hoods in the first place. The theory is cars need to have a gap between the hood and the top of the engine so that when a pedestrian smashes his head onto it there’s a bit of a cushion.

Altezza RS200 version is even better coz it swaps the position of the tach and speedo to put the tach up front and center.

Man, I hate that as much as I hate the Starbucks card. Someone ought to tell these guys they’re an EV charging station, not a wallet, and certainly not a bank. I don’t care for their shitty app, and I’m certainly not going to give them a free loan by loading money into it.

analbumparty!

Some of the modern chains are pretty cool and are made of rubber, with (optionally) embedded studs. Judging solely on looks it seems to me like they’d be able to run longer and at higher speeds without breaking compared to actual chains.

I love how the overlay just says: Braking 60-0mph: 150ft like the test was utterly unremarkable.

Saw this a couple days ago. The best part of the video is easily Jason’s illustrations of the “Cybertruck” and “911" in his diagrams.

Even the super-beautiful Totem GT Electric is touting “125dB of external sound” as one of its headline features!

Remember when everything started with a stylized e, or i, or had an x in it?

Wasn’t there a video with Akio Toyoda taking it to the parking area of a racetrack and speaking with another dude, and in that conversation he says it’s being launched soon?

+1

Having a BRZ for a first car has to be pretty sweet though.

The original was inherently a good car though, the new one just isn’t because the hybrid system adds too much weight. Gan-san helped develop the original and regularly hosts the NSX owners club meetings in Japan.

A 2024 GTR would be a steal at $50k though...

Damn those qualifiers! I was in the middle of typing a snarky reply about the thousands of BMW 1600s and E21s that shared an engine block with their crazy turbocharged F1 brothers, and then I read “modern”.

The 2JZ has no racing pedigree because it was just too much engine for every series Toyota was competing in.

Nothing drives up interaction than starting a good old flame war.