Absolutely. One of the local autoX drivers has a Miata with a 1.8L 4-cyl and a supercharger roughly the same size. Puts down around 450hp. Says he could go higher, but he’s already tire limited and can’t fit anything bigger in without screwing up his aero. Having been thoroughly terrified as a passenger in a 230hp MS…

You can get that out of a Mazdaspeed Miata with a bigger than standard turbo.

Honest question: do they run well at altitude?

RIP :(

They actually have a terrifying, relatively new missile.

I live in one of the wettest parts of the country. There’s an area classified as a temperate rainforest 40 miles from my house. The rest of the area is not dry. Even so, everyone seems to forget how to drive the moment it starts to rain.

I’m in Tennessee. We had a big (for here) snowstorm two winters ago. All the guys with their 4wd off roaders decided they were just fine to drive in to work. That’s when they learned that mudding tires≠snow tires. Meanwhile, all the Yankee transplants with all seasons on sensible fwd cars were driving around like it…

That police car sliding backward...

Not really. Iowa was the first state to have a woman in any elected office (way back in 1868) and they legalized gay marriage state wide before any other state not on the coasts (and while CA still had Prop 8 in effect).

It is why it exists, but it is absolutely not how it “should” be. The Electoral College was explicitly set up to give slave states more of a voice because they had fewer voting citizens but could use the 3/5 compromise to pad out their representation. They already have outsized representation in the House and Senate…

It’s a sad state of affairs that I will be happy if that’s the worst that comes out of this.

Much less creepy than I’d feared.

Allotting EVs by percentage of popular vote within states doesn’t solve the problem that the smallest states are highly overrepresented while the largest are underrepresented. Every vote in WY would still be worth more than 3 in CA.

Here is the congressional map for Iowa:

Too bad it sucks to be McCrory right now!

When my ex and I were in Crete, we got a bunch of amazing local olive oil as presents for people because it was like 1/10 the price it would’ve been in the US. Basically, everyone was gonna get some... except her Italian family she was going to visit immediately afterward, because we weren’t about to insult them.

I think you think you’re joking, but it was after the Bruins beat the Canucks in the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals.

Yeah, but that’s only over hockey. Nothing else gets them riled up enough.

I’m scared to ask: why are you more familiar with hypoxygenic environments?