Following distance.

Yes, that’s why I strongly and repetitively mentioned following distances having a larger impact than speed. I track cars regularly and have a great understanding of the limits of brakes which is why I tend to leave excessive following distances.

Despite what statistics bear out, speed is almost never a factor in modern highway crashes. Almost every modern car - even with the worst modern brakes and tires - is wildly safe up to a minimum of 85 or 90mph in my opinion. Following too closely, distractions, drugs and/or drinking, not understanding adjusting speed…

Burnouts?

They could even put an ECU in it that adds seventy horsepower when not in “the EPA is checking this" dyno mode too!

He probably would’ve gotten it had he gone to Harvard.

Religion: The Original Pokemon GO

Counterpoint:

I usually hate custom color schemes and other gaudy shit but this really isn't that bad. Those wheels are awful though. If you're going full cream sickle, let's get some classic looking fucking wheels.

I’m in camp Doug. I only wax the Stingray to get the cone scuffs off easier from autocross, and I pay someone to do that. Driving is more fun than looking at the car.

God bless the pushrod.

Paid $23k for my wife’s ‘13 Golf TDI and they're trying to give me $22.5k three years later. Seems like I'd be an asshole to say no.

Nice! I’ll be getting $22,997 for my wife’s Golf that we paid $23k for new. Decent cost of ownership.

Funny story, a friend of mine has a Miata with a biasing valve. After installing new brakes, I left him to set the bias, which was a very bad idea, because to confirm which was front or rear on the valve he set it all in one direction. Assuming it was set to rear, he punched the brakes at about 50mph..while turning.…

Yes.

I assumed it was a settlement of $1,000 to $7,000 in addition to buyback but we’ll see when we get there. The car only has 29k miles on it so it’d definitely be an awful deal to cap it at $7k.

;) government at work. It’s crazy that the majority of this country votes consistently to expand government also, but hey, maybe that’s just my personal opinion.

As a 2016 Audi A7 owner, VAG shamelessly looked at their other better looking four door hatchback sedan thing and said, “Welp, we got that one right, let’s copy it”:

Welp, my wife has a ‘13 Golf TDI I was planning to take the buyback on if the fiscal terms were intelligent, but if the government is getting involved via New York State, that’ll turn into a massive clusterfuck in which the government will manage to spend a massive chunk of the money for “administrative fees” and then…

I was never a Corvette person and then the C7 came out. Grabbed a 7 speed, Laguna Blue, manual because fuck it. Pretty good car. I don't honestly think the commentary on these cars should be as stigmatic as it has been (maybe the C7 dispels some of that) but I am shocked that more people don't die regularly in them.…