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I see what you did Douglas.

Yep, very common in cars designed solely or mainly for the US market. Remember, the traditional seating arrangement in the US (through the 70s) was three across the front bench seats. Foot parking brakes make more sense than hand brakes for that arrangement. Trucks (which retained bench seats longer) and mass market…

They do not, standard mechanical ratcheting foot parking brake.

These Jeeps have the standard ratcheting mechanical foot parking brake.

These jeeps actually won't allow you to do that. Engine will not shut off unless in park.

The engine will not turn off unless you're in park. All of the roll-aways are people who left the car with the engine idling without using the parking brake. IIRC, the car does ding that you're not in park when you open the door but it's a similar ding to the 'your keys are not in the car' and the 'you're not wearing…

IIRC, the only thing in the regulations about the ‘cool down’ is that all cars must proceed, unaided, to Parc Ferme. It becomes a whole lap because the only way to get back to pit entrance is the long way around (driving the wrong way on the circuit is an automatic exclusion). If they don’t make it the regs say ‘may…

The 6 minute rule was set specifically to avoid that. Even if they were running neck and neck at qualifying pace at final ‘-1' and one car instantaneously stopped and waited a lap then instantaneously crossed when the leader took the checker they’d still have a final lap in the 6:30 time frame.

It had to do with people gaming for higher classification. Before the rule folks would have a mechanical failure/crash, say 4 hours in, and they’d get it in a condition where it could hobble around for just 8 miles. Then, just before the leader would cross the finish to start the final lap there’d be a slew of broken…

Terrible but one of the things that makes racing racing.

Yeah, I know they have performance balancing, but I thought that was all done prior to the season hence no 'BoP' calls just before races. Is there a provision to adjust during season?

You compete in a different class if you want to target max innovation...that's not a goal of LMGTE, costs would go up significantly and you'd lose a lot of the field.. IIRC, LMP1 has no balance of performance provision during the season.

You need to upgrade to a Pentium. They're all the rage.

Did they ever fix the rear butt-shimmy when going over imperfections? That, right there was a straight deal breaker when I last drove one.

Neutral: What’s Another Car That Should Have Been Great?

Its buddy from the other big Japanese player; CT200h. Both of those should have had a sport-ish version packaged for a traditional ICE.

Yes they do. Here’s just a portion of the text they voted to keep classified:

Depends on the pedal box. I prefer left half foot brake/right half foot throttle, if that's not workable I do toe brake heel throttle. I've never been in a pedal box that would allow heel brake toe throttle without being a contortionist.

Every car will be equipped with a latency free, massive bandwidth uplink to a satellite constellation that covers every square foot of land on the earth.

Sounds cheap! Should only add a couple million to the purchase price fiftieth generation Leaf when it’s ready to be fielded.

In some places that’d be true, but in many other places there's a discovery rule where the statute of limitations clock doesn’t start ticking until the injury is discovered in cases where it was obscured.

One piece is that metal forming technology has grown in leaps and bounds since the early 90s, basically paralleling processing power. The ability to simulate, accurately, how a precision hammer/press/whatever will affect the stock material has allowed all sorts of in-sheet bends/curves/creases/etc. that would have…