Well, yeah, but that’s kind of the reason why the Miata was such a huge success. Just about the right amount of power and torque to give it a perfect balance of performance and handling. If you want to give 300 hp to a Miata you can, but its purpose becomes more of being a track beast at that point, assuming you make…
I think we are all criticizing this design from the wrong perspective. It’s not a horribly-designed puke-inducing minivan, but it is rather the most luxurious and refined street-sweeper you could wish for. Ok, it’s missing a few brushes here and there, but I’m sure they are optional extras for several thousands of…
Fair point, but in the current world of SUVs and nothing but SUVs (and trucks) on the road, anyone with a regular sedan/coupe/station wagon already can’t see anything ahead but the back of said SUV/truck, so defensive driving practices and third brake light use are completely irrelevant. Only real solution is to buy a…
No idea. My only rationale is that it bothered him to have a car behind hm for a couple of miles in a winding road and when I refused his “politeness”, he lost it. The level of pent-up aggression one witnesses in US roads is downright scary.
You were lucky, had they not been rear-ended, if you had continued to refuse to cross the road and kept waving at them to move on, the least you should expect is two middle fingers, and the worst probably a bullet between the eyes...
The usual tale of the good samaritan who thinks no evil could arise from their incredibly good-willed actions, no matter how stupid or reckless those actions are.
The C3 Corvette solved this problem 55 years ago (when it worked), but clearly all the Elon’s horses could not succeed in implementing this solution reliably or profitably...
LOL, it could only be more perfect if there had been a way to make it play on a loop without viewer intervention... I guess YouTube wants to avoid people bashing themselves to death with their own video-playing devices.
I believe they were not scolded (yet) by BMW, but were scolded by Ferrari for their savage takedown of the terrible infotainment system on the 296 GTB, which I thought was fully justified.
Throttle House was less than enthusiastic about the manual version, and quite disapproving of the design, which indeed has a face only a blind mother could love...