Beat me to it.

Well the implementation is where (in my dreams) legislators SHOULD have and implement their expertise. I agree that suddenly making a critical item more expensive would have awful shock consequences. Imagine, though, that the government said “We are going to start taxing fuel more heavily. We will start with low rate…

Generally I’m with you, but I would say the laws encouraged SUVs rather than allowed them. If you present a business with a more profitable option, they would be morons not to take it. If we had approached this by making fuel more expensive, rather than trying to legislate outcomes, people would have been incentivized…

The owner of Dragtimes.com makes the kind of jack that lets him consider this?  RUFKM?

In my mind there was one wire pair running from the key to the starter, then to the battery, then to the alternator.

“Clarkson’s Office”  Not sure what to call the ladies’.

I disagree in a sense. Formula 1 as a brand is about money and technology. It is not always the fastest formula, but it always uses the most money to pack the most technology into its cars.

I grew up around SCCA club racing (RIP Mid-America Raceway). I love race cars and I love racing people. I love watching race cars do amazing things and I would go to an uncompetitive race in the right class just to watch, hear, smell, and feel the cars go by. I don’t really care about written coverage of racing as a…

To continue being pedantic, “term of art” and “technical term” are nearly synonymous, not opposite.

Is “Full Self-Driving” a term of art or a technical term established by a regulating body? If not, then why does it inherently imply that it doesn’t require vigilence? Especially after their following warning, I take “Full Self-Driving” to mean that the car is capable of performing all aspects of the act of driving…

This X $500/month.

Don’t forget laziness. I have no idea what the economics of the thing are, particularly how a salesperson or manager might be incentivized, but I bet you anything that special orders are a pain in the butt that the sales team doesn’t want to deal with.

You are making me miss Singapore.

Yes, sometimes multiple turbos are set up to kick in at different speeds. Mazda did that with the FD3S RX7. Porsche did it with the 959. I think that is pretty unusual, though. As far as superchargers, yes, they deliver less horsepower for the same boost since their drive comes from the engine, rather than scavenging…

That is true, as rotating mass goes up with the square of the radius. Although, and I’m no expert by any means, I have heard that the inertial effect on lag is negligible if everything is properly sized.

The car rules, clearly, and it scoots ferociously with one gigantic turbo. No need for twins, the one big one is enough.

That is not an IROC. You can tell by the smooth hood:

So if I can plant a seed regarding LeftVoice’s take:

Worth noting that this car was designed by Colin Chapman (founder of Lotus, for those who don’t know) with aerodynamics by Frank Costin (the “Cos” in Cosworth). I won’t pretend to know tons about it, but I love those wobbly web rear wheels. The webbing is made from a single sheet of metal bent into tight waves on one…

The “F1-type” car looks like a Can-Am 2.0 car to me, which means it’s a sports car (note the covered wheels) based on an F-5000 car, which is conceptually an F-1 car with a 5.0l V8.  So in a round-about way, yes, it is an F1-type car.