Love it. An ordinary car that’s become extraordinary. Take care of it :)

Is MCM officially dead? Just to be a little snowflake, I always felt the tone of those columns was uncharacteristically mean-spirited for this site (as the comments always showed, very few cars are meh cars to the people who drive them for years).

You’re the only Grey I’ll probably end up replying to, because I have a feeling most no one else is going to adequately address why this is a complicated issue in good faith.

I think you chose to ignore the whole point of the first quote bud.

Before people start jumping in and saying “B-but, muh 1st amendment rights!!” without understanding a gorram thing:

Private entities reserve the right to police their private forums in any way, shape, or form, they are comfortably with doing so from a business standpoint.

Some people seem to think that there are only two extremes when it comes to presentations: Amateur-hour-flying-by-the-seat-of-your-pants, and Corporate Automaton. The truth is it’s a continuum, with the most skilled presenters falling right smack in the middle. They’re smooth, slick, and prepared, but they do it in…

Exactly.

Elon’s presentations are consistently awful. It’s like he deliberately doesn’t rehearse or even practice speaking in a measured way. His constant “uhh…” “ummm…” and stumbling through shows – at best – a lack of preparedness, or even worse, a lack of self-awareness and not giving a shit about how he comes across to his…

TED talks. ughhh. There’s that whole “TED talk” way of talking that just puts me off. Maybe it’s the chin Mike, maybe it’s the required provocative statement followed by studied caesuras.

For what it’s worth, this is the Crew Dragon launching on Saturday morning with 117-minutes of star trails leading up to the launch and a storm over the Atlantic Ocean throwing out lightning bolts. It was pretty friggin’ impressive.

And I bet in more than a few cases this works out to be MORE expensive than buying a new car on a full warranty. Let’s say you only buy $3k cars and chuck them only when you’re quoted for a repair that will cost more than $3k.

As sort of a fun experiment on this exact argument, I bought a new Mazda 3 with a 0% loan incentive, while my brother bought a used 2006 Mazda 3 with a low rate credit union loan the same month in 2011. Both S Grand Touring models with manuals.

Only an idiot wastes their money on a safe, reliable modern crossover in the $25-35,000 range for their wife and kids.

This asshole probably has a 30 second youtube add that comes on(every fucking time you’re trying to watch a video)...he’s in a garage surrounded by a 5 year old R8(murdered out) and 9 year old 458 (of course its red), and starts telling you about what books he reads, and how you can have the type of financial freedom…

A practical demonstration of the same concept in reverse (flying into a strong headwind)

The dimpled golf ball thing is about reducing the boundary layer size/thickness to limit drag. The dimples introduce turbulence by increasing roughness and Reynolds number. Something like that could be helpful on surfaces that do not need laminar or attached flow.

“drag from sponsor logos”