Maybe some MBA graduate advised them that they should consider planned obsolescence.

What? No, Hot Rod removed commenting from their entire site years ago when they revamped it, has nothing to do with this car.

All Hot Rod did to their car was change air pressures. Other than that, the car was bone stock.

Conditions count for a lot.

Texas conditions for the LMR tests were definitely different than the Florida conditions that Hot Rod raced in.

Hot Rod raced on a prepped track.

This is an 11 second car under the conditions Hot…

Plus she was the best part/only good part of the ill-fated V reboot. I watched that horrible, horrible show just for her.

Also Morena Baccarin is most notable for Inara on Firefly

No, nowhere else is an 11 second car a car that is faster than 11 seconds. That would be a 10 second car. You’re incorrect interpretation isn’t heard anywhere near a drag strip. What’s behind the decimal point doesn’t matter when your saying it’s an ‘X’ second car.

It’s not exactly rocket science to take an automatic transmission car to the drag strip.

I mean, sure you should warm up the tires for best effect - but that’s why the car comes with line lock.

Reaction time doesn’t count into your time anyway so a 90 year old could do it so long as they knew how to floor the go pedal.

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This argument has been made since the first cars were cheap enough for kids to buy them, and it never really actually works out that way. Dudes who want to do stupid shit in cars will find a way to do so at legal speeds and with 85 hp. If this was actually a danger, we’d be seeing massive increases in deaths among…

While $54k is a lot, especially when you think about a 2000 SVT Cobra came in at $28k (about $40k in todays money), you think about how much nicer a modern Mustang is, and how favorably it compares to cars like the M4 that can easily top $85k....

IIRC, the September, 1960 issue of Motor Trend magazine had a compilation of short blurbs about every 1961 model car available for sale in the U.S. that told us, among other fascinating facts, that Chrysler was the only make where every car they offered could do 0-60 in under 10 seconds. Back then, quarter miles done…

I’m always wearing a helmet on a track, regardless of rules.

According to NHRA rules, you need an actual roll cage under 10 seconds, that’s why the Dodge Demon was supposedly “banned.”

The way I read it in coverage elsewhere, it would not allow you to register a 2040 or later vehicle not meeting the criteria in California, with the sole exception being made for people who are moving to California for the first time. That would rule out the ‘Californians going car shopping in Nevada/Arizona’ scenario.

“Pity the poor Wall Street trader”

I applaud this effort, but I hope the same BS games American employers play aren’t allowed here.

Well, to be fair, 1-2 is acceptable on a street performance car.

Counterpoint: Please God no

The unspoken subtext is that they only allowed two customers to buy them.

Yes but some sports cars such as BMW M2/M3/M4 and Porsches have manual transmission take rates ranging from 25-50%. Explain that then.

There’s few practical problems with that.