I have an idea for this type of super-douche. Round them all up and start a televised motorcycle racing series, force them to participate. Some of them while they have truly awful judgement are very skilled and have no fear, so it would be entertaining to watch. The kicker though is they have to ride the bike they…

I wonder if there’s a way you could make it work with a steering wheel. Like straight ahead and gas is power to both tracks, and any steering input is less toward that side up to eventually stopping that track and going into reverse. So you could still do tank turns and have a car that looks completely normal inside…

The Prius is like the awkward-looking kid from band class that grew into their features after high school and you see them at a reunion. Yeah they’re good looking, but the drastic change from ugly to above average makes them seem a lot better looking than they are.

I remember reading about hypermilers in manual Insights back in the day that got crazy MPG figures. They did more mixed driving city/highway but the tricks they used were often illegal or at the very least very unsafe. Things like rolling through stop signs, shutting the car off completely going down hills, and…

My 2 year old daughter has watched a couple like this, but I’ve fallen into the rabbit hole of ridiculousness before just because of how hilariously awful they are. I call them sweatshop animation, they’re so bad it can’t even be AI, just a huge building in some third world country where they’re forcing people to push…

I’m excited to eventually do a cross-country trip in my Giulia. It doesn’t even have 10k miles on it yet but we’ve done four 4+ hour each way trips in it and it’s been amazing. It’s a tight squeeze with 2 kids and 2 dogs but we make it work because the drive is just so easy. Even with 19s it rides better than my 335…

The difference between this and a hole in one contest though is that this is seemingly much more winnable. Last year they had two winners and this year in the first few weeks of the season they already had one, too many wins and it would either be uninsurable or the cost wouldn’t make sense if they did have insurance…

That doesn’t count either, it’s a liftback.

For a dealer with an owner that donated $15 million to a school, I doubt they got insurance for this. It’s not ownership of a free high-end car, it’s a two year lease of what I would assume is a pretty entry-level car (given it’s for a college kid). The value of the prize was probably $10-15k, not nothing but an…

I don’t care that it’s automatic, this is about as perfect of an overall sports sedan as I’ve ever driven. W212 E63 AMG post-refresh, 2014-2016.

As an insurance agent, this is a weird list. Premium, help and advice, and policy review? Most of these companies with the exception of Geico are written through an agent, and many of them are written through independent agents i.e. we work with multiple carriers. They more often than not require everything be done…

Different companies prioritize different rating factors, and yeah they’re regulated by the state but that just means they have to submit their rating factors for approval, unless you’re in NC premiums will be different (though they could be very similar depending on your profile).

How does it say that? We know the power figures, you don’t need a road test to see the Kia is more powerful. To me it shows that the BMW I4 is likely underrated give the fact that it’s .1 second behind with less stated power in a much heavier car.

You’re right, I tried looking for it now and the only place I could find tire information was Tire Rack, the OEM option for the GT is an ultra-high performance all-season Pirelli PZero. The OEM BMW 19" tire is a Bridgestone Turanza grand touring all-season, so there’s still an advantage there.

Well exactly and it’s also edited for TV, which means they did a whole lot of driving to get the 10 minutes of content. So while it could easily look like it ran out after 5 minutes on the track, it was actually a half day’s worth of runs.

Which it doesn’t look like this one has. So they’re testing a top of the line sport version of the Kia (which probably has performance summer tires) alongside a standard suspension and all-season tired 5-series which is also a bigger heavier car in a different segment.

Also hurting the C8 is the fact that due to being mid-engined a lot of actual supercar buyers bought into the initial hype. They tend to only keep their cars for a year or two versus traditional Corvette buyers who will put them away for a decade plus. And a lot of those supercar buyers I’m sure realized that the C8…

Any normal car with a wing/spoiler, but specifically WRX-es.

What you need is a Mercedes GLA45 AMG, and put some knobbies on it.

I’ve seen plenty of evidence to the contrary, especially with European cars. Both my car and my wife’s (and her prior car) all did better MPG at 70 than at 55. They all have 7-8 speeds and the sweet spot is right around 70 where you’re in top gear with minimal throttle input. They’re also all 2.0T engines so it’s in…