Every Tesla I’ve ever been in or driven has had kit car levels of build quality. They simply just do not sound, feel or seem as solid as normal mass produced cars are these days. Most of the materials are actually pretty good but the way they’re put together just feels third rate. Some of it is simply the fact that…

This. I’ve driven Porsche’s with regular steel brakes all day on track with minimal fade and no overheating. This was back to back 45 min sessions with short breaks in between and a 30 min lunch break between groups of sessions on a fast track with 3 max braking zones. I don’t mind a little bit of brake squeal when…

The owner seems super cool

Thats awesome. I’m definitely going to stay there on my next trip. Thank you!

My employers have a deal with the Trump hotel in Chicago and I’m supposed to stay there when I visit (fairly frequently) on work. So far I’ve refused to give them my business and I see no reason it shouldn’t continue. The Hard Rock is nice and its actually quite a bit cheaper. Everybody that knows me knows I’m no…

sure, there are also people that prefer bud light to yellow rose but that doesn’t make them right. I agree, theres room for both but TGT is a bland, flat reflection of what Top Gear used to be.

how is this controversial. Its a fact.

Seems shocking to say considering where it comes from but I actually think this is a fairly good starting point for a deal. The howls of outrage on both the far right and the far left seem to confirm this. With a few (major) tweaks this can serve as a way to radically improve our existing system and bring it closer to…

Almost right. I’d put anodized aluminium or textured metal over wood though. Wood works with older cars, not necessarily on the sportier cars I tend to look at. I don’t know why “carbon fiber” is such a popular trim option on sportier cars these days. Why would people prefer plastic (yes its plastic coated carbon…

For as good as Harden’s been Chris Paul is my Rockets MVP this season. When he plays the team just hustles a lot more on def. He makes an enormous difference to this team on all levels.

This. Get rid of autoplay videos and I whitelist all gawker media sites. The scrolling ads on mobile are equally annoying. Static, headers and footers are fine by me.

The oldsters are generally better drivers than most of us millenials. They’re not generally trying to get on instagram, facebook, twitter or watch netflix shows while behind the wheel. I say make cars with over 500hp faraday cages so nobody can use their cellphones for anything other than car mediated incoming hands…

The rumor actually says that its closer to 800 hp. The carnage at cars and coffees will be off the charts if true.

Autopilot’s just a fancy word for active cruise control Tesla uses to overhype what is a fairly common feature in the luxury limo segment. Stop saying its autonomous or anything of the sort - there will always be idiots who think this gives them license to be arsewipes and endanger everyone else because they think…

That color is fantastic. Never, ever considered green a viable choice for car color until I saw that.

This whole silicon valley driven “mobility” push is a massive waste of money that’s going to crash and burn with few profitable real world applications. This whole cringe inducing episode really hammers home who its focused on. Its a solution designed for the wealthy few in neat, orderly tech hubs well removed from…

Its so good that mechanics shops all over the country started popping champagne.

Try the current gen CTS-V and the Alfa Giulia. Both have an 8 spd tq converter that feels like a DCT in terms of responsiveness. For fast cars I’ve stopped even shifting myself anymore. The delta vees are just so high that it makes sense to hand over full shifting duties to the car. In a miata, sure a manual is a…

That’s purely an opinion. Its a fallacy that a car needs to have a manual to be fun. I’m thinking about the most fun cars I’ve driven over the last 5 years and only one of them (Golf GTI) had a stick. Everything else had a DCT and a couple even had torque converter autos. I actually prefer a DCT on a track because it…

You need to compare a similarly equipped Cayman to this. Generally multiplying stripped, base msrp by 1.3 is a good rule of thumb for Porsches. That would put it 15-20% lower than an equivalent cayman. The Alpine isn’t a 4C, its a genuinely well equipped car that you could use every day that somehow drives better than…