“Also our product is distinctly Cadillac and people will buy into that brand and that substance,” added the spokesperson.

The 2020 Supra emblem typeface was made from scratch “and the new ‘S’ is based on a turn at Nurburgring.”

I really like 3/4 of the car. But that front end is just... wrong. I think its the headlights, and the the way they’re cut into the bumper? I don’t know. It kind of tries to do what Mazda did really well with the new Miata, but it just doesn’t work. Like you, I really like a lot of the car - my favorite detail is the…

Doors back = good doors forward = dumpster fire

C4C had almost no effect on used car prices. It only involved ~690,000 cars out of a market that is ~40,000,000 used car sales per year. That’s right, less than 2% of used cars (that year) were involved.

Used car prices jumped due to the supply of cars as car sales crashed from 20+ million a year in 2006 to 10 million in 2009.

Not quite exactly. The engine and supercharger rotate at a fixed ratio to each other. Here is a very simple example assuming full efficiencies and no temperature change factors. Let’s say that the supercharger rotates 5x faster than the engine. That means that for each engine rotation that calls for 6.2L of air the…

Nope. Engine displacement and supercharge displacement are calculated by how much air is moved per rotation. For an engine it is calculated by Pi/4*Bore^2*Stroke*# Cylinders. This is basically the difference in volume between top dead center and bottom dead center of the cylinder. Supercharger displacement is…

Meh. The midwest offers a pretty decent balance of quality of life to affordability. I’ve lived a lot of different places and the reality is day-to-day life is pretty similar wherever you are, so why spend a fortune?

ST205 Celica GT-Four

The manufacturer can charge more when the buyer is getting a rebate from a third party. It’s like college tuition - the more Uncle Sam “helps”, the more expensive it becomes.

There’s plenty of bad debt out there, but I think you’re way overselling the “bad” part of your car ownership experience.

I have a 997 Turbo.  I promise you as a current owner this dilemma you have will become an even larger problem as the time winds down because the new car is just oh so good.  Now if you’re tuning the 997 is still the way to go.  Stock for stock however there are lots things to consider.  I’d say as a new car the…

I agree totally. I am automation adjacent in my high-tech job and sweet jebus is this shit hard. People a hell of a lot smarter than me have had years and a huge budget to automate stuff at my job and its, at best, working modestly. And its nothing so complicated as driving.

This kit makes total sense..

Why is trade imbalance a bad thing? Is it just a concern when its between countries, or should we worry about an imbalance between states, municipalities, companies and individuals?

I remember back in the early 2000s, I co-worker with a Navigator on 20" wheels came by work to show it off. I though those wheels were gigantic.

Volvo hands down perfected the solution to this problem.

This is wrong, and you know it. Wrenching on cars that were born before you were should make you realize what happens to old molded rubber components. They dry out, they degrade from UV, and they crack. Then the thick rubber section opens it’s terrible maw when you slide it into first gear, and as you satisfyingly…

That still sounds pretty disappointing as like, a car, which is a functional object meant for driving.