Yeah, there’s no way I’d get the magnetic suspension. All that extra cost both up front and down the road. And will I even notice the difference that much? I live in Vegas, so I only get to carve canyons (in SoCal) every once in a while, and my non-magnetic suspension has no problem handling what I give it. I think a…

Indeed, but I would rather see Ford stay where they are performance wise. All of this “catching up” keeps driving the cost of the car up. To be fair, I suppose no one needs a GT with this 2nd level performance pack. But the general performance and price escalation of pony cars is getting out of hand. Almost no one is…

Just an FYI, the standard GT performance pack cars from 2015 and up already had this staggered stance. Can’t remember if the widths are the same as here (maybe an inch narrower), but the rear tires on the GT PP were already a half inch wider. Luckily, my ecoboost with performance pack has a square setup.

100% sampling of raw materials sounds unfeasible, or at least overkill. Random sampling should catch issues with material defects. And supplier QA isn’t worthless, as long as the material is coming from a reputable manufacturer. CoC’s are worth something, at least from domestic suppliers.

I find it odd that I haven’t seen any articles on Jalopnik about these layoffs (perhaps I missed one). And last I read it was 700+ layoffs.

I know this is slightly off topic, but was there ever a Jalopnik article on the recent massive Tesla layoffs? I don’t recall seeing one, which is odd as almost every other auto-related layoff is covered on this site.

I’ve been reading about those layoffs and wondering why there is no article about them (that I could find) on Jalopnik. A massive layoff is bad enough, but then labeling these people as poor performers on the way out is awful. That’s going to make it much harder for these people to find good jobs. And from what I’ve…

Indeed, it’s even more of a problem for them (as it should be) given that they’re headquartered in California which has many more workers’ protections than most states. Tesla really needs to address all of their personnel and culture issues, and quickly.

I think the “hasn’t made a profit” thing is a bit unfair. They’re making profit margin on each Model S & X (from what I understand), they simply haven’t turned a corporate yearly profit because they’ve been reinvesting so much of their capital, which is not unusual for a new company of this scope (and some would…

Indeed. I remember a decade ago an engineering staffing company opened an entire design center employing around 50 engineers at my alma mater, Purdue. The sole purpose of that center was to work for Sikorsky, because Sikorsky didn’t want to directly employ these people for various reasons. Employee…

I never said the article wasn’t interesting. It was, and I’d like to read more like this one. This one particular paragraph just felt out of touch to me, as so happens when reading auto journalism. I probably shouldn’t have bothered commenting, but c’est la vie. There doesn’t appear to be a delete option on kinja…

Yeah, I get that. It’s just that the way this is worded makes it sound like owning an exotic car is easily within the means of most regular people, which it certainly isn’t.

As a former E36 owner (whose first order of business after buying the car was to replace the entire cooling system) I lol’d.

Most of us don’t have the money to buy a pre-owned exotic car, either (unless it’s really really old). I am amazed at how many auto-journalism publications are seemingly out of touch with the means of their average reader or viewer.

The steering rack itself is probably unlikely to fail in a catastrophic manner (though it could happen). What’s more likely to fail is the method of actuating the steering, which for an autonomous car would be these motors and for regular cars would be the human (assisted by electric or hydraulic power steering in…

Such a tired argument. Our energy grid is getting greener everyday - it won’t happen overnight, but we’re making significant progress. Also, EVs are much more energy efficient even when running on “dirty” electricity, due to the massively higher efficiency of electric motors over internal combustion engines.. You also…

Thank you for the helpful info. I’m not sure why the author would have written that.

Indeed, they’re very shady in that regard. The amount of DLC you needed to purchase on top of the Ultimate Edition of Motorsport 6 in order to get the entire game was ridiculous.

Hmm... I was planning on buying this right away, but I might keep playing 6 for a while until 7 drops a bit in price. Everything I’m reading in these comments is very discouraging.

“In previous iterations of the series, players could turn off driver assists like auto-braking in order to earn better rewards for racing. Now that’s all handled by these mod cards. “