If Sergio hadn’t thrown away his Silverstone weekend during the Saturday Sprint, Bottas would likely be 5th. And Sergiuo is having a poor season (by his own words), struggling to come to terms with a new car and team. Bottas should be miles ahead of him and Lando. Not holding 4th by 4 points

Agreed on George. Merc seat is a top ride, Ilhot and Zhou have not earned that quite yet. George most certainly has. But I can see why Toto would not make this move.

The biggest models are pretty much capped by the size of our roads, which have not increased. It makes more sense to compare base models to base models over time. Old trucks were definitely smaller. Height, hood height, step height etc are all pretty large these days.

Nice! I’ll be headed to Lincoln this year for the first time. The scale alone of that event is intimidating. Had a preview of what Nats will be like in Bristol a couple weeks back with a couple national champs battling it out at the top of our class and then a gap back to the rest of us. Not an insurmountable count of…

Yup. Lived in TX for 27 years. Every time you leave the house there could be a random hail storm. Especially in north Texas. This is life. 

Ah yeah I gotcha. That’s totally fair. Not everyone enjoys everything. Hope you are still having fun with that car in other ways!

And if you can, ride along with someone fast. Having fast people in your passenger seat is great, but it still is tough to break through the mental block that causes people to under-drive the car despite the passenger saying “go faster.” Riding with someone fast will recalibrate your brain real quick and you’ll…

Autocross is bad for seat time, if that’s the goal. It’s great for a sense of competition and learning car control. I’ll take that over a volume of non competitive seat time at a DE any day.

Bad seat time is bad seat time. If you can’t bring yourself to flog a car in a parking lot with cones, do you really think you’re going to do it at a track with other cars, hard barriers and real consequences? You won’t. Not being harsh, just thinking you should focus on the nut behind the wheel more and not take the…

I tossed my radar detector out. Waze let’s me know far earlier than my Valentine ever did. Not to mention warning about speed cameras which get moved on a daily basis in DC and Waze users almost never fail to mark them within an hour or two. Plus radar detectors are illegal in VA which is just around the corner from…

Yup. Nailed it. Honda, Kia and Toyota’s offerings beat the crap out GM/Chevy’s at those price points. One is a cheap car that feels cheap when brand new, and gives you the sense that it will age like garbage. The other feels like you’re actually getting a thought-through, quality product that matches or exceeds the $…

Just because you have a law degree doesn’t mean you’re not an idiot. I know plenty of accomplished, successful idiots.

Handing it over is one thing, you have a choice in that. Having it taken from you without cause or consent is another thing. That’s a police state. That’s an infringement upon your constitutional rights.

They don’t have warrants. They collect data on everyone, not even when looking for specific targets. It’s ostensibly like law enforcement being allowed to search everyone’s home, car or personal data any time they like. Not because they are looking for a specific bad person. But they just want to see if anyone they…

A simple bluetooth output-only connection is better. A physical aux-in cable is best. 

You seem confident that your car is not caching contacts, call records, text threads, photos, and a large amount of other data locally so it doesn’t have to do this each time you reconnect to it. Or that the trusted connection between your car an your phone cannot be exploited in very imaginative ways. Not sure what…

I use bluetooth connectivity and my phone’s voice control to do the same thing over car audio. The weird thing that drove me away from apple car play in my particular car is how carplay Waze does not call make audible alerts for police or speed cameras when you have Waze open but not specifically navigating. It does…

That’s a big ol assumption. I find, nearly without exception, that infotainment UI are far worse than my phone. So I end up using my phone and ask the car to do as little lifting of the tech-load as is possible. This plus critical/core car functionalities available as buttons is as good as it gets for me. 

This. This is the truth.And yet none of them can do technology better than my phone. I don’t even like apple carplay in most instances since it many apps (like waze) lose functionality when used via carplay. Phone connected to car via bluetooth is my savior.

All hail the physical button. Nothing is as safe. It’s always where you left it. There is physical feedback when you use it. No need to ever take your eyes off the road.