I’m surprised the 4C hasn’t been cancelled completely. It’s been not selling in droves.

I spoke with the sales manager at my local Fiat/Alpha dealership a few months back when I was looking at a 124 Spider (the Miata won.) He said they were selling an average of 4 4C’s per month, NATIONWIDE. This dealership (a small…

A trip to Griggs Racing and a fat wad of cash will insure even the most hardened anti-Lincolk nutjob will think its cool. Being Fox-based, all the go-fast goodies developed for Fox Mustangs will work with these cars too.

So get ready for an SLA front suspension, torque arm, Watts link, and big-assed PowerStop brakes.

Douchebags are driving Teslas?

I literally could not care less.

Is anyone surprised that a bunch of guys who got their jobs by gerrymandering is now trying to gerrymander economies?

Harley should give the US a big middle finger and relocate everything offshore. At the same time, re-invent the company’s image to better appeal to hipsters, who represent a target demographic that aren’t dropping dead.

Harley Davidson bicycles and scooters, my friends.  Think of a Vespa with a V-twin...

For some reason, the fact that it has regen braking makes me very happy.

Come to think of it, Regen braking may not take that much extra hardware. I wonder if it could be done entirely in software.

I really need to learn more about regen braking in modern electric motors.

A couple of things come to mind.

I doubt the car has regen. It’d add extra weight and for 12 miles, regenerating the charge may not have been enough of an advantage to justify it.

The car almost certainly has electric steering and possibly brakes (how do you get brake boost on an electrict car any way?). I doubt you’d…

Since VW couldn’t cheat in an unlimited class, they entered 3 cheater cars in other classes, just so they could give the trolls something they could point to and grunt.

Now everyone’s happy. :)

If you can’t make the race, you can still get a taste of the insanity by visiting the Penrose Heritage Museum, where they have a wing dedicated to the hillclimb, with lots of former winners display.

When I was last there, they had what was left of Jeremy Foley’s car and helmet on display.

Good God, those are ugly. They’re as bad as DTM cars.

The solution is to charge more for diplomatic plates and put that money into a fund to pay the parking violations. If/when the fund goes dry, the registration fee doubles.

This fee would be charged for each and every diplomatic vehicle registered and must be renewed every year.

VBehicles without plated would be towed,…

Cultist or not, its good to have all the relevant facts, rather than glossing over them in an attempt to make Tesla look incompetent.

Paintball guns, because you’ll run out of eggs pretty quickly.

I think the automotive industry has it backwards. We don’t need autonomous cars (yet.) What we need are intelligent systems to detect when we are driving badly or dangerously and then alert us to the asshattery we are engaging in:

Race control and flagging is a serious, dangerous business.

To make matters worse, F1 doesn’t have its own track marshals. They rely on the local track for that, and the track determines who mans the flag stations.

For COTA, that usually means experianced SCCA marshals, usually all with the same training. But there’s…

Regarding the current gear indicator...

I’m fairly certain the display is driven by comparing the engine RPM againset the wheel RPM (from an ABS sensor,) or speed (from the speedometer sensor.) After a gear shoft it takes a second or two to sample the sendors to do the calculation.

If you’re handy with OBD-II PIDs, you…

Yeah, but it kind of loses its zing, seen from the rear-view mirror...

Probably one of the most poorly-held secrets coming out of the auto industry this week. We’ve known or suspected the power bump for months.

Next new flash — there’s going to be a mid-engined Corvette! OMFG!

Having worked races both as a corner worker and race official in the flag stand, I know there’s a TON of communication going on, particularly towards the end of a race. I can see how the flag stand could be off by a lap, but we always were very explicit in our communicatiosn with race control, which always occured on…

So, to me, based on the CCTV footage, it looks like the Renault turned in front of the oncoming ‘Vette.