Perhaps would’ve benefitted from a 7.0L mill for that all-steel shipping container of a van shell? Not that it would’ve done anything about the inside front wheel waving to the crowd in chicanes though, yeesh...

Chris Craft was robbed. Dry tires on a wet Brands Hatch in that brodozer-high rig, and only *one* full-360…

With as hot as weather’s getting now... they may as well drop batteries altogether and make capacitor models exclusively.

With as hot as weather’s getting now... they may as well drop batteries altogether and make capacitor models…

FYI, KMASHI flashlight code does not work.

FYI, KMASHI flashlight code does not work.

Only one of those that didn’t at least give a whiff of ‘ringer’, was the Peugeot. That seemed like more of a long shot than the diesel Benz or the Toyotas... and give more credit to the wrench’s skillset.

women being a major force in sales — at least domestically —

éX-Driver’s creator is Kousuke Fujishima, who also created Taiho Shichauzo (You’re Under Arrest), and Aa! Megamisama (Oh! My Goddess), two much less obscure manga that made it to anime... and also featuring Fujishima’s intricately-drawn gearhead-centric love.

Having just gotten back from two weeks with relatives in Hokkaido... I can tell you we are *totally* missing out on cool Kei-class cars.

Also... despite the massive institutionalized disadvantage women historically have dealt with there for centuries... there is change afoot, at least in sport. Jousei-senshu (female…

Wrong Chris Evans, to my sensibilities (little prior WCE viewing in other contexts, thank God), is poison to this franchise.

1986 FC/S4 Mazda RX-7. Worked at a Budget in HS, and had to shuttle these between baseyards. Non-Turbo II, so theoretical powerband (underwhelm + buzzer in three gears). Stock V6 Camaros (of that crappy vintage, no less) would eat its lunch...

Totally agree... and its an older, quainter example of how the Japanese thought of their customers’ expectations, pre-’96. Making a car that cost a big chunk of the average worker’s salary, then *not* doing the due engineering diligence and kaizen, to insure the car would still limp you home and give you every benefit…

My first car that was all mine, was a ‘75 Corolla SR5 with a 2T-C. Those things are like little tanks. ;)

22R ‘81 Toyota pickup, 4-spd. Clutch survived two teens learning how to take off on a hill, on the 40-deg+ hill at the local dump... and never wore down enough to warrant replacement, 20 years later when it was sold.

Also learned how to catch a fishtailing open diff with bias-ply tires on a muddy frontage road, with my…

Just goes to show... not even geniuses like Shinkai Makoto, get all the aspects of an anime right as an amateur (seiyuu, writing, choreography, music, etc).

The dialog kept ripping me out of suspension of disbelief, never a good thing. Some of the animation was pretty cool, too bad it didn’t gel.

Dunno about power numbers in themselves... but acceleration is pretty important to me, so power:weight I think is more relevant. Between 5 & 6 seconds to 60 from a dead stop, is plenty for a DD.

My SV650s racebike only did the quarter in low/mid-11s, so about high-4s to 60... that was usable, repeatable, and…

Commuted both in Phx and Seattle, two basically polar-opposite climates, topography, and cager mentalities...

Will never commute on an Open-class bike again... and my YZF1000R was pretty conservative compared to today’s frontline kit (passing was easy though). Maintenance, insurance in the desert, + every jaded AZ DPS…

As a former 85hp SV650 club racer, who routinely walked away from broseurs on 600 Fours with 40 more hp... I endorse this message.

This is surreal... like watching a CG version in some scifi movie... but with those minuscule motion details in real daylight /smoke / flame jostling, that’re never quite nailed in CG.

Lived there a decade. Woe be to they who buy a house at the foot of a rocky hill in AZ (pretty much all of Sedona/Jerome) — you will have more scorps than you’ll know how to deal with vs. the flatlanders...

Update: as with a ton of us, PE emailed me back as well:

Only got about 50 replies in... so if some are repeats, apologies...