You already emphasized it, but I think it’s really important to hammer the point home that 5-point harnesses are ONLY safer if you’re wearing a head restraint. Without a HANS Device or something similar, your neck takes the full brunt of a crash which can leave you with any number of debilitating injuries not least of…

No, traffic is stopped because some asshole didn’t have the forethought to get into the lane he needs to be in before it became urgent and is too hard-headed to accept that he missed his exit.

Most states have pretty clear criteria for what constitutes a safe lane change and they’re blind to what the traffic conditions are or whether or not you’re merging.

To this point, no cars have actually been revving to the limit. Because our fuel flow limitation, they’ve all been shifting between 10 and 12k RPM so it’s possible that with better efficiency, Ferrari could be revving to 13 or 14k now.

Didn’t they score points in the first race last year?

Top notch shoppin right there.

It’s a 3 series parts bin car so it’s very reasonable especially the non-M versions. The 4-cyl is also lauded as one of the most reliable engines BMW ever sold. 300k+ miles is pretty much par for the course.

Convertible + Road Trip = The Best

Let me guess, your favorite flavor of ice cream is vanilla and you don’t add spice to your food because, guys, it’s already spicy enough.

Are you talking about the waste gate sound? They’ve done that since the beginning of the v6 era when they added turbos. It used to be less pronounced because they were required to dump the waste gate into the exhaust, but that rule was changed before last season.

Fair enough. I’ve always had infatuation with f1 because of how much power they get out of a small package, but that’s probably the engineer in me more than anything else.

It sounds a hell of a lot more like last year’s cars than it does the v8s that preceded it.

If they can make 700+ HP with a 1.6L, what’s it matter how many pistons they have? Especially when you consider the hybrids systems, these things are beasts. I’m a big fan of the screaming V8 predecessors, but other than the sounds there really isn’t any reason one is better than the other.

Doesn’t sound that much different than last year’s cars. Maybe revs a touch higher.

It’s just too bad you don’t have access to some sort of database of searchable information.

Or even in arm’s reach in some states.

I’ll always have a place in my heart for Saabs even if they do things that don’t make sense. It’s their weirdness that brought me to them to begin with.

It is true for an AC motor as well. They work on the same fundamental principles.

I brought up ICEs and gear ratios because those are the reasons dyno tests run from a rolling start, not because the dyno equipment requires it which means those limitations don’t affect Tesla.