At these speeds? I'd say not. I ran a La Ferrari around Spa in Assetto Corsa with a sim rig and actually switched it to full auto because corners were coming at me so quickly that shifting (even with paddles) was actively getting in the way of hitting the braking points/apexes properly. Sure it's just a video game,…

Woo, love this series. It lands just in time for my birthday!... which I'll potentially be spending in Jury Duty, but this should help ease the pain.

Speed Racer will always get a +1 from me!

It's about $3.75/gal for 91 around my neck of San Diego. It was about $4.40 or so during summer, so it's a little sad that I'm happy it's this "low" now.

While I agree with your sentiment of the "I did that" feeling, I have to disagree with your statement regarding shift times. Last time I had my car in for work, they lent me a new Boxster S with PDK. First thing I did was take it to the nearest mountain and see what it could do. I was not disappointed. The PDK is…

Eh, it kind of depends. Back when I bought my car, every privately owned Cayman of similar mileage/features/condition was priced roughly 3-4k more than what I stumbled upon at Carmax. So, I basically ended up paying exactly the same thing I would have had I bought it from a private seller, but now I have the extra…

I bought my Cayman from Carmax, and I can confirm the warranty is good anywhere. You just pay cheaper deductibles if you bring it to Carmax to fix. In my case, it's $50 at Carmax, or a $200 deductible at the dealer. Personally, I just take it to the dealer even though Carmax is basically the same distance because I…

Also, how in the world do I get out of the grey? I don't bite, I swear!

Heh, my shot didn't make it in because if the naming thing. I misread wanting the format to be FirstnameLastnameCAR as you wanting the name of the car in the picture... Lesson learned.

Bah, living in Southern California doesn't allow me to do much with this challenge right now. It's still warm and sunny, and the leaves around me aren't changing. Oh well, here's a shot from my yard last winter, just to make me feel a littler better...

Now, normally I really dislike color shifting paint on cars, but damn does it work well on this one. Well played!

Also not taken this week, but I love that I found one of these while walking around downtown San Diego.

Still not a good excuse. Just because it's a kids movie doesn't give it license to be terrible, children deserve better. See: The Iron Giant, The Incredibles (darn near everything by Pixar really),Willy Wonka (1975 version), Home Alone, etc, etc, etc.

I fail to see the downside to this? Heh.

This, plus Oculus, plus some sort of glove for haptic feed back... oh the possibilities.

Indeed, this is what I get for typing quickly as I'm headed out the door.

Fun fact: Jeremy Lin is an executive producer for the show. Explains all that.

If you're looking at used, the one potentially bad thing about the 07-09 Cayman is the IMS bearing issue. The issue is really rare (under 1% of all cars sold), but the specter is there. As a (lucky) owner of one, I haven't had an issue after 65k miles but the possibility still haunts me a little.

Thought I'd add an anecdote from the panel. Walter O'Brien (the guy who is the inspiration for the main character, look him up) has been involved with high level government intelligence operations for decades now, including counter-terrorism ops and the capture or elimination of several high level targets.When asked…

I actually ended up seeing the pilot for this at SDCC while waiting on another panel. Like most others I had never heard anything about the show before hand, but I came away fairly optimistic. The pilot was pretty solid and takes the "awkward genius" trope and begins to examine it at a deeper level than I was…