As someone who has driven a 2012 Honda Fit from Chicago to Denver, Chicago to Montreal, and most everywhere in between...it is not that bad. Especially coming from a 25 year old Accord.

Those complaints will look a lot more reasonable and measured than buying extremely inefficient/high pollution vehicles though.

If I could live in a world where both of my cars (ie: the two mentioned above) get 60+ MPG instead of my current 30+ MPG (30 in S2000, 40 in Fit)...I’d sacrifice the S2000 for that.

And trust me, I don’t say this lightly. The S2000 is my favorite car ever built.

I would trade my S2000 in an instant for this. 

It is not a fun watch, but it is really, really worth a watch if you can build yourself up to it. If not, no judgment!

I agree with the message of this post, but the $15,000 hot lap thing seems more in line with track time being way too expensive for regular folks in general.

I too want to pay a ton of money for, or at least celebrate, an inefficient EV that looks like a 2005 Hummer H3 with a body kit.

Yeah, this isn’t funny. 

Pointless death as a result of one of the more pointless trends of my lifetime.

Sure, but the Raptor is also how many hundreds of pounds heavier?

Also, at what point do bench racing stats actually not align with reality? 

This is/was my thinking on the matter. It seems too big and heavy to do much good.

I know nothing about Dakar, but I’m really struggling to believe the Raptor would ‘run circles around’ this or the other overall Dakar contenders. Proof?

Yeah, I do 9 and 3 but I never wrap my thumbs around the steering wheel. I’m not trying to destroy my hands.

If you modulate the clutch slowly and gain an understanding of the friction zone it works. I learned to drive a manual using this exact method when I was 18 and had a ‘91 Civic Si. 

I think it is less that people want meat substitutes than that they want something easy and convenient.

It is also quite nice to look at. I would happily drive one of these.

My gut says the door handles will still be higher than the roof of my car.

Tiny seems to be relative.

Agreed. I think every single team (other than Haas) can come out of this race feeling pretty decent about their odds this year. 

I think the title works.

The Red Bull was the faster car.
The Red Bull was on the ‘preferrable’ strategy.
The Red Bull had the better tires.

With FSD, Tesla has also devised blood tests that require only very small amounts of blood and could be performed very rapidly using Model 3/Y/X/S.