Regions have pretty soft borders. I mean culturally eastern PA is really part of the Northeast, Western PA is most like the Midwest and central may as well be part of the south 

If you’d read the original article where the research was done rather than the Jalopnik article it examines multiple contributing causes. Distracted driving and walking have both gone up contributing to more pedestrian impacts and therefore deaths, SUV driving has gone up which means a higher proportion of pedestrian…

I mean you couldn’t have picked a worse example because the Cayman has a ton of practical performance benefits over the Panamera. It’s lighter, stiffer, lower, and has better weight distribution. A better example would be the difference between a, say, BMW 3-series sedan and coupe. Functionally, the coupe may be…

It’s sorta like how you can buy the coupe version of a sedan that’ll have better proportions, cleaner lines and maybe save a little weight at the expense of some interior volume except in exchange for less interior volume than the X3 it has worse proportions, busier lines and is heavier.

I have purchased an Alfa 164 for $500 so that pretty much disqualifies me from sane automotive advice for life 

Paying them back wouldn’t be financially advantageous to Tesla but it isn’t very really detrimental either, it’s a very small portion of the purchase price for the cars and they literally can’t build them fast enough. Tesla is still new to this business and may have re-evaluated the benefits of having a very low…

If I was in line and serious about it this would make no difference to me. The price of the car hasn’t changed, I’m still on the hook for 50k or whatever when I take delivery.

Eh, true. I still say go for it. Maybe tell them they can do what they want as long as they keep the halo so we don’t have to open that can of worms again. In fact I could see the teams keeping it in this case anyway because although every 1000th of a second is worth them fretting over in a race but minimizing risk to…

I think I agree with the spirit of what you’re saying, if that is increasing control over capital gains and introducing more sweeping and effective gun control and environmental regulations but making your point that way just pisses people off and gets us nowhere. I think a majority of people besides some nutjobs on…

Right?!? Just imagine how horrible of a YJ you could buy with that three grand! 

Oh yeah I almost forgot how not-fun F1 is.

Note the word unrestricted. F1 cars are very restricted in races and qualifiers. I don’t actually know which would be faster, but if someone ran one unrestricted it would certainly be interesting to see

Theoretically it’s possible but unlikely to be proven because it costs a race team at the caliber of this or F1 a hell of a lot of money to do something like this with limited return. It’s not that there haven’t been F1 cars and LMP cars that were faster than the 956 till now, but because there isn’t racing at that…

I agree with all your points but to me the Escalade is even more unforgivable than all of that. I mean, maybe someone did work hard, bought themselves that boat they always wanted and want a nice, comfy truck to daily drive that can easily take the boat, their family and some friends to the lake on the weekends. It is…

If by conservatives you mean ‘Congressional Republicans’ I don’t think they can really be described as conservative anymore. It’s pure maneuvering so that their base gets to see their net pay number go up a bit and maybe even a temporary bump in job availability but when the economy crashes in a few years from the…

I’m sorry, I think your Scout must have developed a terrible exhaust leak that’s finding its way into the cabin. 

Before the advent of income tax the world was a very different place, our nation in particular. Even if we ignore the larger force of globalization in the international economy as a whole, until just a few decades before income tax the US was an agricultural country and a tiny player on the world stage. It’s not…

This! Typical Republican BS. Pushes a tax cut through “for all Americans” where the poor will see a couple hundred extra bucks a year, the middle and even upper(ish) classes will see a few thousand extra bucks a year and the ultra wealthy will see millions extra a year. Meanwhile the tariffs that only partially cover…