Really unfortunate that Felix has inherited the cartoon anvil now that RHR isn’t in the series anymore. Just insanely bad luck this year.

100%. This is mostly to support dealership used car sales.

“Ford Credit’s plan for EV leasing enables customers to replace their vehicles with the newest model at lease end while keeping the vehicle in the Ford network longer so Ford can better manage battery recycling and materials,”

They should have been happy it didn’t rain. Reading your other track experiences, it seems you cause a 80% sodden downpour rate.

You turned down an opportunity to buy more tools?

1. Use gloves. I have been so stubborn about this but they can help from dinging your knuckles and possibly get better grip.

The US allows red rear turn signals.

If your only benchmark is whether or not a car is a bargain compared to a Corvette, I’m sorry to tell you that you must also hate every sports car made in the last 30 years. The entire point of Corvettes is that they are cheap. I’ll take the manual supra (once it comes out) 10 times out of 10 over the C8.

None of these are as nice on the inside as the Mazda 3, and it’s not even close.

Mazda 3 Turbo. 250HP/310lbft with AWD. 

You can buy the Supra with the 3.0 that has 78% of the power for 86% of the price.

Imagine a little Mazda 3 hatch that you could thrash around a racetrack for one minute, then stop off and stock up on groceries on your way home? Give the stock car a little more power, some slightly flared wheel arches, a big wing and a nice manual shifter and there you have it. The real car for the people.

And you sound like you didn’t read the post:

F1 standards are much higher than those of the folks that camped out for Summer Jam

F1 last raced in Watkins Glen in the 1980s, and circuit safety and entertainment standards have drastically evolved since then. There were even complaints in the final years WGI hosted the race that the circuit facilities and town accommodations weren't up to par

Hybrid engines definitely did not take away from the one race I’ve attended.

I'm sorry if this sounds like I'm attacking you specifically. I'm not. But holy shit can we NOT with this bullshit? Guy wants to buy a car. You know... the fucking purpose of this fucking feature? A large part of the whole site? LET PEOPLE BUY CARS. Fuck. If you people had your way we'd all be in 97 civics or…

100% should he buy it out, even if he plans to turn directly around and sell it.

I bought out my lease for 16,500 and then turned around and traded it into a dealer for the car I ordered, they gave me 25,000 for it....

In this case I’d look at it more like delayed gratification. I’m a sales analyst for a major automaker; I don’t expect car prices will ever completely return to their pre-pandemic levels, but I think the environment will be much friendlier to buyers a year from now. 

No offense, but the buyer would almost certainly be best off buying out his lease and waiting until the inventory situation improves before replacing it. I’m also at the tail-end of a lease for a vehicle I don’t particularly love. I’m looking forward to driving something else, but I’m buying it out and waiting at…