Go Boilers.

Indeed, that horrible center display is a war crime. With all the things the feds mandate on cars, I can’t believe they won’t mandate that at a gauge cluster with (at minimum) a speedometer and warning lights be placed in front of the driver.

I owned two 80s Rangers at various times, including a 4cyl manual with no power steering or brakes that had over 200,000 miles. I didn’t own that one for long.

Didn’t Tesla hire one of the interior design head honchos from Volvo a while back? I wonder when we’ll start seeing the results of that hire? I hope the Model 3 interior wasn’t his work (blech). Not that it really matters to me, as I can’t afford a Tesla.

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…