I put 15,000 miles on a set of Z2 SS, daily driving, and they had at least 60% usable tread when I sold the car they were attached to. They really didn’t have too many obvious downsides.

I’m of the same mind as you that - at the end of the day, the most important metric is “how much fun was it?” But even among people who can agree on that, what constitutes “fun” varies so much.

My dream sleeper DD would be to do a full V8 M3 conversion of the E91 3 series wagon. It isn’t really a sleeper, since a jalop would recognize it for what it was pretty quickly. But 95% of people would never give it a second look.

Anyone with an apostrophe in his or her name will be charged double.

This really should be priced closer to the 370Z than the Z4. 

I was certain that when he stopped in the middle of the road, he would pull off and cut the grass a little. He should have done that.

Any conservative driving that he did was more than made up for by the boosts at 4:15 and especially 4:22. I really didn’t find anything he did too too risky until then. Aero is his Lord and Savior at that point.

This

Bravo!!

I certainly wouldn’t pay that for it, but I know there are more than a few people in the world that would fight over it at that price.

Add LeMans but with GT1 cars in a few years, rally, pro cycling (road, mountain bike.)

Why do I get the ominous feeling that the Trump administrations’ proposed solution will be to send prisoners to farms to do all this work for nothing? Boy, would that be a MAGA wet dream - legal slavery!

I’m not entirely positive (I don’t follow Pittsburgh politics too closely) but I think Peduto is a decent guy. This is really shitty, so I wouldn’t put it past him to realize his error and become better for it. *edit* somehow missed the end of the article where he apologized, but yea. He’s a hardcore anti-trump, so…

They really bungled this thing. I see a few driving around from time to time and they just don’t look good at all to me.

I know where your frustrations lie here I think. My stretch of I-79 increased its speed limit to 70 mph last year. I typically cruised 65-70 on it before, and now usually keep it at 70, fuel economy be damned. I always make a point to pass as promptly as is reasonable (much faster than most people, I have noticed) but…

Yes, the danger in the situation comes from the aggressive behavior of the people jammed up behind the lane-hog. This potential danger is unavoidable. You can not teach people to stay cool - it is unreasonable to imagine that human beings in general can ever change in this regard. Some pretty deep-down animal rage…

When I saw this headline, my first thought was “why do a bunch of soccer fans care so much about whether Pluto is a planet or not?” That could have been a much less disappointing chant.

And even when you are capable enough to do any repair, and have the means to do them (garage, tools) that does NOT mean you are immune to that special flavor of anxiety that comes with relying on an aging used car. I went many years keeping older cars running long, figuring new cars to be for fools. Then I went for a…

I found this out a few months ago when shopping for someone who wanted a very basic new-ish car on a $10k budget. I thought the sky would be the limit. Turns out your options are some Kias, maybe a Cruze and a ton of Fords with wonky transmissions. I didn’t think about how the SUV-pocalypse was causing problems in the…

As a WRX owner, I’m confused by the mention here of WRX brakes as an upgrade. Are the stock 86 brakes a wooden block that you wedge against one of the tires with a lever?