V14 engines exist for industrial applications; 13-cylinder radials could easily exist although I don’t know if they did

I think that’s true! It would probably be more so if I had the manual instead of the 5-speed auto, but you get a very real sense of what the car is doing and what it “wants”.

The newer Focuses are good! I was more recalling the old early-2000s models.

Golfs are good! I’m seriously considering a GTI as my next car to replace the Fit (in a few years). The only problem with Golfs is less certainty that they’ll take all the abuse you give them. Jettas are, depending on the generation, not that much worse than Golfs (since often they’re essentially the same) but the…

My Fit feels the same way. Japanese econoboxes are just fun in an indescribable way (or maybe it’s just that they take whatever kind of crap you give them?), and if you can only have one car and it needs to be practical and inexpensive, a car like that can allow you to still enjoy driving in a way that a Ford Focus or…

I think it’s a Radical GT3

Foot-operated car horn

Holy fxxk!

Those fender flares > any other fender flares.

It will have flappy paddles. Practically zero cars made today don’t have them (or some sort of manual-shift mechanism)

My dad and I test drove one prior to buying a NC Miata and it felt plenty fast on the roads we drove it on. It’s perfectly fast enough for what it’s supposed to be. Like you said, the problem is that young people can’t buy new cars, and ultimately, to make fun cars like the 86 sell, that needs to change.

My dad and I sat in an ATS-V at the Detroit Auto Show and... yeah. There is too much plastic in places where plastic DOESN’T NEED TO BE (not even for cost-cutting purposes - my dad’s S60 which cost half the price new has none of the cheap plastic). Also there are some features which are a pain in the ass - accessing…

“Forza-online” as a verb is some of the best writing I’ve seen on this site

They’re all locos from between the 90s and today, with all about 4000HP, so it probably doesn’t matter too much which one they grab.

Interestingly, the 1914+ Lanchester most resembles a Borzoi

I read “hatchback BRZ” at first and was actually like “you know what? I DO want that”

The headlights look SO GOOD

Fitwagon!!!!!

The crash rating is don’t crash

V-Spec! Especially since it stands for “victory”