But there are so many idiots, ManicDan. So many.
Here’s what happens. Dude buys a Kia Optimizer 900 for $30k OTD. Feels good he got a bargain, the new car smell is new, the sunroof works.
Then Dude’s girlfriend’s co-worker buys a Macan. He got a base model lightly used for let’s say $40k. “Boy that guy’s Porsche sure is…

Car people can also be a bit anti-social by nature (and if that sounds familiar, I said it to my team last week.. maybe you were on it?)
The questions are insanely hard, so you also have to be ok with saying “lol who knows” and sometimes that’s hard for people to let go.

“Caterham’s only marketing tactic is appealing to the nostalgia centers of our dumb lizard brains.”

You have a bright future here.  

Reading the comments here I feel like the article has to have been edited. I mean, Erik is a bad writer with worse opinions, but there wasn’t a ton of politics in this. Throw away jab in the headline, purge reference in the closing line... the rest is fairly straight forward reporting by Ballaban-era standards.
Eh, I…

What’s a “visual quote”?

Yeah, was gonna say that Basterds would have skewed production output for German car makers. So they sped up in this world.

Best post in the Ballaban era.

(I honestly didn’t mean that to come out so snarky, but.. good song for today.)

What I hear you say: “I’ve become used to unfailingly partisan media, and cannot stand reporting that accurately reflects both sides of any argument”

Why is that dog so sad? Do canines suffer from range anxiety?

6, 4

adult leagues have to play when kids leagues aren’t playing. very common in any rec league that shares space with kids leagues.

Then go read Consumer Reports

Keep the “long” chassis, take two doors, give me a real bed, and I’d buy one (1). At the prices they’re asking. So there’s that data point.

I have employed many software engineers in my career. I can say without hesitation that their compensation had very little to do with the quality of their code.

Well, the second sensor was the pilot, in that case. And when the pilot disagreed the system did not disengage. A dozen sensors don’t defeat one bit of shitty code logic.

1st gear:
In a drive-by-wire system the pedal/sensor is only a small factor. I tend to agree with the skepticism, probably a big dose of user error. But, the pedal goes into software, the software is taking many factors and sensors into account, and the software is calling on the acceleration. Just noting that the…

I mean... that’s basically how they got here in the first place?

That’s a very personal question, btw... I’ve got a couple of 4.0's half apart in my garage, an XJ without a motor, and... lots of other things to do, especially when it’s 5f outside and the garage isn’t heated.

Compared to your usual pre-Moab lists of fixes this one is laughably minor. Lots of cosmetic parts, some mechanical “nice to have” fixes, and the hopefully minor stumble and smoking. You did all the hard ones to get it back to Michigan. The real question is how do you get motivated to *do* these when you’ve got other…

I’ve been in the Honda Marysville R&D building. Kind of a weird crowd, at this point their second generation into the koolaid and it’s a little cult like. The smocks add a lot to that impression, though, I’m sure.