Social nicety? More like (minor) social burden. The other phrases you mention have some merit and/or reason to exist. “Bless you” does not.

There are two schools of thought: 1) get a first car that’s easy to drive without stalling to build confidence or 2) get an underpowered shitbox that’s a nightmare to drive (like Mr. Tracy had) and then you can drive anything. I went the same route as David (due to necessity) and I’m not afraid to drive anything.

Two things I’ve learned from owning a direct injection engine and browsing forums:

Yes it does.

Of course it will. Why wouldn’t it? They did that exact bait-and-switch with the last “WRX Concept”.

I see this a lot everywhere, including my home here in Las Vegas. It boggles my mind that people will stop of slow to almost a stop on a freaking freeway because they passed up their turn. It’s not worth it, people - go to the next exit and turn around. Your small amount of lost time is not worth someone else’s life.

As a runner who is constantly cut off at intersections by people who pull up too far, don’t respect my right of way and/or simply don’t stop and cut me off, I second this.

Will there be wheel support? (Thrustmaster, Fanatec, Logitech)

I think the last one was unofficially NFS Underground 3 (they just cocked it up). I hear ya’, though. I played the crap out of NFSU 1 & 2 on my gamecube.

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…