Dont forget: Improving braking and cornering is only one side of the coin. The other side of the coin is the one where you’re not buying new pads, rotors and tires for your car all the time because they’re not wearing out so fast. 

Weight savings is my favourite way to gain performance because it helps everything in your car:

I’m think aero was the difference. Pretty sure the only rounded edges left on that thing by the end were the A and B pillars.

1/8th mile doesn’t respond as well to P:W adjustments as 1/4 mile does. At 1/8th you’re more beholden to reaction time, traction and gearing. Half a second might be quite as amazing as it could be, but it’s nothing to sniff at considering it’s only really coming in to play after the 80' mark.

A half second is significant? I honestly expected much more for nearly 25% weight savings. (4500lbs to 3500lbs)

I’ll sum up: Grimes invites Azealia, a rapper famous for... um... an “inventive” imagination, as well as fighting with people (literally and figuratively)... to work on an album. Change of plans, Musk and Grimes take off for the weekend, right as Azealia is arriving. Azealia is invited by the staff to stay at a guest…

As far as i can tell; several people, far removed from the common worries and pleasures that most of us have, have beef with each other and have been ranting/covering up/partying too hard and just about everybody messed up.

Same.  I need a TL;DR version of this. 

I really wish someone would explain this to me without all the snark and cutesy shit. It seems intriguing, but I could not make myself read this. What’s going on here. Can someone tell me in just like 1-2 normal and informative paragraphs?

Mansion 1 was just too big, mansion 2 was too small, after it gained sentience mansion 3 constantly makes creepy comments about how you’re now inside it and it’s jusssst right and mansion 4 is being slowly moved through time to be the base of operations for a war 1000 years ago.

5 contiguous mansions?! That is beyond ridiculous. Who the fuck lives in them? I’ll take one. I’m pet/housesitting in Santa Monica this wknd, but it’s not a mansion by any means. If they ever need a pet/housesitter, I’m available for hire!

I could not be less surprised if this piece also mentioned the sun rising in the East.

Waiting for all the people who want NFL players protesting during the anthem to “Stick to sports!” to say the same thing to the Braves here.  Feel like I’ll be waiting for a long time.

Planned obsolescence is a myth. I Design Product for a living. Sure I can make a you a blender that will outlive you but you won’t pay what it costs. Therefore I’m stuck making you a $20 blender that lasts just about as long as you think it will.

I was thinking it sounds like an iPhone

In some weird way, I find this kind of cool. There is something sexy about a peaky engine that doesn’t like being cold or puttering around at low speed. Modern engines do everything so well that they require less of you as a driver.

What? You know there is such a thing as thermal expansion that takes place as the metal in the motor warms and gets to operating temps, right? That isn’t something that can be accounted for by the ECU alone.

What’s a warranty?

“But until the warranty expires, I’ll have lots of fun with this car.”

It’ll still be fun after the warranty runs out. Just a more scary type of fun.

Waiting for the car to warm up is unacceptable feature in a 21st-century vehicle. That would drive me insane.