If they remove that light then they need to do validation on the dash control electronics (which might be shared with other models) to make sure it doesn’t screw up something else.

Yup. You did it again Jason.

About the only benefit is that historically premium had a better additive package with more detergents and whatnot. Probably not true anymore.

It surprises you that people don’t understand Octane? We’re talking about the same population that filled trashbags with gasoline in their trunks because a pipeline shut down for a few days. Think about the most average person you know, then remember that roughly half the people buying gas are dumber than that person. 

That wasn’t even Bristol’s craziest design. Napier made even wilder stuff. Look up Napier Nomad for some real madness.

Complicated is frequently worth it in the name of miniaturization. But if it’s not even smaller... yeah. WTF were the design goals?

Exactly. Getting this thing manufactured was impressive machining and design work. But a V8 OHV engine that takes up the same room and weighs the same has 30% or more displacement and produces a lot more power and torque.

I don’t know why we call over engineered, overly complicated things a marvel of engineering. KISS

“That’s beautiful, especially the rear!” - Chris Bangle.

The whole concept of a “Friday” car was a joke by a lazy rightwing stand up comedian in the 1970s to attack union workers. Sure, lets blame all of the sins of malaise era carmaking on the union workers at the plant. It wasn’t cheap steel, incompetent management, skimping on construction materials, or any of the other…

Clearly, it’s doing all it can to catch up.

I think the issue is that a lot of people don’t understand manufacturing and assembly, so they just think “well it works right?”

12k miles....that’s seriously low expectations.

Ingenuity from an assembly line worker is actually a very bad thing.

Growing up in the 1980s, I *adored* CART racing. I felt everything else was a pale imitation, especially NASCAR. Like, these guys are the fastest and best racers in America, if not the world.

Agree 100%.

Its hard for people today to remember the ascendance of CART at the time. There was talk of it challenging F1 on the world stage. The racing was that good. Tony George stuck a knife in their back over his petty greed and then the owners tripped over their dick in hiring Joe Heitzler and fell on the same knife. IRL and…

Yeah, it was... not a great call on the broadcast’s part. A shot of the shoes after Tracy mentioned them would have been fine because they are admittedly very cool shoes, but the weird, slow body pan gave me the heebie jeebies.

Can we also direct some of this shit at the NBC production crew who decided that PT’s first sexy shoes comment warranted a camera change to focus on said shoes?  PT was clearly being creepy and cringey as fuck but come the fuck on NBC, don’t lean into it and enable him.