Ah, gotcha

You’re right, it’s not. But with any luck the Veloster N will basically be the same car in a different skin.

Watch/read an i30N review. I’m optimistic

You don’t think this will deliver on the promise?

On the other hand, Evo has called the i30 N one of the best-driving hot hatches they’ve ever reviewed. If the Veloster N is anything like that this could actually be better than the Focus ST or GTI

Considering the praise that’s been heaped upon the i30N I’m excited for this. If this car is anything like that one it’ll be a hell of a hot hatch

I feel like Bush 43 has been more visible since the Great Plumpkin than he was during Obama

Almost all of Canadian rally. There’s a few regional events in the Ontario/Quebec area that not only started allowing studs, but actual giant WRC studs in the past couple years

It almost feels like young Altair and old Altair should be ranked separately, they’re so drastically different

The only downside to this is it’ll be really hard to convince myself not to call out of work every rally weekend.

Those dudes were awesome

Red Bull TV

A hot Yaris is Toyota’s NSX. They keep claiming they’re working on it but nothing comes of it

There’s two other angles of it at the start of this vid, even uglier

The original Hummer complied with all the Dakar rules. The Gordini was built because the Hummer was built to suit the actual “in Africa” Dakar and wasn’t as well suited for the South American Dakar. The Gordini was supposed to be an improvement

Hiroshi was competitive fifteen years ago. The race was a different beast on a different continent. Margins between competitors were bigger, you could afford to lose a few minutes to caution. Now with how tight competition is every second counts. It’s not unusual for 100km stages to be won by ten seconds or less, and…

This is an incomplete list of issues, but:

They’re not exactly pace notes. Teams are given a road book that has various landmarks and dangers. Sometimes it could be just a tenth of a km or less between notes, other times it could be more than 10k. One of the big challenges is that every competitor gets the exact same notes, and with no recce they don’t know…

BJ has attempted Dakar a few times, first in Robby Gordon’s Hummer (twice iirc) then most recently in 2014 in a car built by Jefferies Racing.

They met that billionaire