And ~half a dozen nationally televised on-field attempted murders.

I wonder if the Mondial shared its engine with Italian mail jeeps.

I was under the impression that the car was always tested at the tailpipe in both tests, but VW programmed the computer to notice when it was being put through the typical EPA test cycle of specific speeds, etc., and would automatically alter its running condition to be able to put out less emissions until the car…

I figure I started noticing my hairline going back when I was in my mid-late teens. My dad was totally bald at like 30, and I figured I was on that route for sure. I would have been a lot less stressed out if I knew that nearly two decades after I was 16 I still would have a nearly full head of hair. Genetics is…

Yeah, lesson learned: If you’re built like a superhero, have Hollywood-level looks, are a multi-millionaire and your head is shaped the right way, which is true of every balding man, then you’ll be fine.

Seems to me they already have the solution: Make the cars permanently enter that emissions test mode. I’m sure it’s a reduction in power, but that will likely be the only effect, aside from maybe more crud that needs periodic cleaning due to cooler burn temps.

Yeah that’s the point where you go from a fight to attempted murder. You probably shouldn’t get to just walk away from trying to kill a guy over a sports argument.

Yeah that is a bit horrifying how quickly those people, who 99.9% of the time probably aren’t in an active fistfight and have to get along with people, would resort to basically attempted murder over a temporary manufactured grievance.

In the USA the farmer would reach for his pants and the cops would blow him away because they “saw him reach for what appeared to be a tractor.”

See here’s the thing: Since he actually runs the dyno, he does know better, than you, about whether his own leg is being currently burned off. There’s no speculating on that. It’s kinda obvious.

What the hell is Lexus’ “F” for that matter?

Oh there are lots of ways refs can misconstrue things. Ask Navorro Bowman who sacrificed his leg and a year of his career for the most fumblesque “non-fumble” in NFL history.

Pretty sure that’s a joke. Last time I checked the NJSIAA isn’t a judicial body so much as a kids sports organization.

Yeah when I saw “modern cars” I definitely thought of a car designed in the 1970s that was still being made in 2011.

As a college football photographer, I’ve gotta say this is the first time I’ve ever seen somebody describe a shot as “almost staged.”

“ From the whooshes of the wastegate “

This is the perfect summation.

Basically they just treat cars like Harleys. They buy old American hot rods, do X-cliche thing to them but just differently enough where it seems original, and add chrome to it.

What really sucks is your dad is right. In the wrongest sort of way possible, but still right.

Yeah, precisely this.