yeah, im guessing too many passengers combined with the low freeboard.  Bummer.   

I live in the Midwest and if there were no shooting ranges, people 100% would be doing that.

the terrible truth is that street racing would have to become wildly popular, with a rise in street racing deaths at the same time for that to happen.

I’m starting to wonder if one could make a valid safety argument for having more race tracks and having them be more accessible to the public (with rules in place, of course!)

Geely chairman Li Shufu has also toyed with the idea of Lotus cars being built in China. I don’t care where the car is built, just give me a new Lotus that isn’t another variation of the Evora.

This is seriously the worst piece I have ever read on Jalopnik. This guy doesn’t understand that dog teeth are a completely different thing from gear teeth (“dog ears” lol).

This article is nonsense.

So named for the dog “ears” that protrude from the gears, dog box transmissions are straight cut (as in the photo above), not helical (spiral cut) as in street transmissions. This allows the driver to jam the car from gear to gear, and they are bigger and beefier. Look at how big and beefy those dog ears are.

And, let’s be honest, we could use the gas tax money to improve our crumbling infrastructure.

I don’t think you understand what CAFE expects. You don’t have to have a car that hits 50 mpgs, the entire lineup must have an average of 50 mpgs, over all sales.

I thought it was a fantastic race. I’m no Chase fan but I was really rooting for him, and he and Truex put on a hell of a show. I’m also far from a Busch fan, but he went from 24 to 3 in 15 laps, that’s impressive as hell. Then Jimmie Johnson pushing Chase to complete his victory lap, that was awesome to see. It was…

Nope, they mean completely different things.  The proposal is to eliminate the planned future increase to the standards (after 2020).  The actual standards were not higher during Obama, nor is anything being lowered from its current level.  Wording it the way they did implies that the standards were higher in the past…

revising the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards downward from the Obama-era heights

It’s almost as if big batteries are expensive....

Until the rulebook says no, why not use tape or other means to get a advantage. Read Smokey Yunick's book on the “old” days of NASCAR, these new interpretations of the rules are “business as usual”. I like the one where Smokey machined his own set of micrometers, and calipers with altered numbers. The tech guys would…

A few weeks ago it was reported that HMS bought their own OSS system because they were having trouble getting their cars through inspection and wanted to make sure their cars would pass ahead of time. My first thought was that they didn't buy the system to make sure they were legal. They bought the system to try to…

So you don’t understand why people want to watch exciting racing with a lot of passing, clear visibility of the entire field from any seat in the speedway, and cars that actually sound good?

I bitched before that no one wrote up the excellent Watkins Glen cup race, but that’s probably for the best since this has to be one of the most ignorant comment sections when anything NASCAR is involved.

Counter point. No it’s not boring. F1 is boring as fuck. 

Maybe you wouldn’t be if you watched the races this past weekend. They were spectacular. Everyone for the most part behaved. No large wrecks, but awesome close racing the whole time.