Spoken like someone who doesn’t have to work on modern shitboxes.

I think the problem is that the vast majority of “interesting” cars are expensive.

You don’t even need to go near the limit to have more fun in a simple lightweight car. That’s part of the joy. Modern sports cars are generally boring on the street as you are totally isolated from what is going on and you can’t hit the go pedal for more than a second without hitting prison speeds.

I mean, if you have to explain a car in terms of practicality being the highlight, your taste is similar to having chicken noodle soup...But without the chicken, and the broth is just hot water.

This is a car enthusiast site, right? Has the author of this article actually driven a lightweight car without any aides past the limit?

My opinion is that modern cars are really, REALLY good....for people who don’t care about driving and consider a car an appliance. Which, to be fair, is the vast majority of the car buying public.

He’s right though. As cars become more like appliances, less and less soulful cars will exist.

Nothing about a suspension being a “coilover” inherently says anything in particular about the ride. You could have a cloud soft coilover or a board stiff coilover. Only thing a “coilver” does is give you adjustable ride height in an integrated spring/damper setup.

You bought the wrong coilovers and set them up wrong.

Never put coilovers on a car your just driving to work. You will hate the stiff ride. The roads are terrible all over and stock suspensions are designed to absorb that horror. If you want to lower your car, get shorter springs. If you want better cornering, get thicker sway bars. Ask me how I know this.

I’ve driven a new M4 on and off track. I’m fairly confident that the M4 wasn’t the issue.

The Dodge Charger - BRING BACK THE MAGNUM, you cowards. 

Do people really do that anywhere? If so what state?

Do people really creep around a gas station, spying on guys using premium, then lining up behind them even though there’s 3 empty spots?  All for a splash of the upper crust juice?

Bring a Trailer was originally an auction site setup for old/obscure cars, project cars, motorcycles, etc. It became an alternative to ebay motors as a way to reach a broad audience of enthusiasts, and the open questions/comments forum was a great innovation - you could ask questions to the seller and also see answers…

13yo vehicle with essentially zero miles is a timebomb of small and big things going wrong due to inactivity. With that mileage its seen 2-3 tanks of fuel at best, so that’s gotta be flushed out at least. I can imagine alot of other items will come up too.  Hard pass for me on this type of deal.

Generally speaking, if you’ve lost power, you don’t have a radio.  It would never occur to me to use AM radio to tune in anything significant.

Technologically, AM radio is probably the cheapest, most robust way to reach the most people quickly.

If they want to keep AM for public safety, they can pick one frequency and reserve it across the United States. Clear out 5 KHz of the best spectrum and treat them like the EBS where you can activate it in affected areas via a few 50-100 kW antennas. Use it for regional emergency weather alerts, national security…