My 1917 Stephens was one of the first mid-range cars with a starter. I have crank started it and also sprained my wrist. The electric start was truly a game changer.

Yes Robin was a fine journalist and the world’s biggest Indy car fan. The politics of modern racing just drove him batty.

Expecting rain and kept her foot down to get an advantage on the competition.

“Autonomous”. I think that is equivalent to “Full Self Driving”. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t mean “manual controlled”.

88 on a 55mph South Carolina 2-lane, while driving a 1964 Austin Healey 3000. I’m glad I had a chance to hit the brakes.

That snorkel is so tactical.

As someone who races a Lotus car from the Chapman era, I can confirm all the legends. The cars are both brilliantly engineered and underbuilt. I sheared a rear hub at Road Atlanta. Then I learned the same problem occurred to Sterling Moss many years before. The cars were built to go 24 hours and 1 minute and mine was…

It is a masterful restyling job and will get a serious test drive from me.

No they are investigating TESLA because they have the highest profile due to their CEO, their sales volume of self-driving, their aggressive marketing of the technology, and the media frenzy that accompanies every system failure. If they were investigating all Level 2 systems because they are stupid and dangerous that…

Miata

But how can a car even move without at least 250hp? — American consumer

EVs total cost of ownership is lower if there is infrastructure to support them. If a government converts to an EV fleet they will have millions of dollars of extra upfront expense for chargers, retrofitting, and retraining.

Good thing you aren’t running for elected office with that platform. But at least you would get my single vote.

Bracket Racing is a not racing.

Rules is rules but it is too bad because Vettel deserved second.

While we certainly need strong and responsible leadership, the average person has been conditioned for immediate gratification and will not inconvenience themselves at all for the long term good. The only way this will work is to get the incentives right (starting with a steep carbon tax) so that human ingenuity and…

Hey, look at that cliff! Aaaaaaaaaa...

So has the FAA done market research to verify that RAM trucks are most likely to appeal to plane-traveling a-holes?

Who the hell uses AutoPilot in Yosemite?

And it’s tactical.