Who the hell would ever compare this to a supercharged V8 strapped to a fleet car Dodge?

I am curious to hear what some of these newbies did in the past. I posted something similar recently- there are VERY few road tests anymore, and the only good review I read recently was by a freelancer. Lots of garbage on here now. 

So you are into weird choices- username checks out. 

Best bad one? Maybe. But the motorcycle one takes the cake as just plain stupid. Is this Cycle World? Why is anyone here interested in this? 

You beat me to it. Brutally bad interior. Which, I have said before, makes the 996 the perfect car to gut and turn into a track car- livery on the outside to help the exterior looks and rip out the heinous and low quality interior for cage/seats/harnesses/etc. Both problems solved.

This is a classic “Nice Price FOR THIS CAR or No Dice”, not “Would I Buy This Car for This Price”. Someone who wants some luxury, snazzy nameplate, and flexibility will find this a NP. Personally, you couldn’t pay me to drive this abomination, but it is provided well for what it is. NP

Can we talk about the barrage of colors in this photo? The brightest of bright blue exterior (great for a sports car, not a luxo sedan driven by 75 year olds), with a bright red interior (again great for some uses- but especially with a any grey scale exterior color of white to silver/grey to black)? Hideous…

I started my track days doing Skip Barber and Lucas Oil type events where you get the ride with the entry cost ($$$). Then I got an Audi S6 and tracked that for a couple years, and now have a Cayman S. Guess there’s a Turbo in my future? 

I have seen a guy in an M5 at a couple of events in the northeast as well (Glen, Lime Rock). And yes he was running in the Red group I think.

If BMWs truly do have higher percentage of claims, my guess would be the run flat tires? Stiffer sidewall so more impact is transferred to the wheel. Whereas my Audi runs regular tires (granted they are 35 series sidewalls) but I guess a pothole will kill the tire but spare the wheel. A Michelin PS4S for my car is…

Yes I drive with my eyes closed, I turn on the Hovercraft function when the roads get potholes here in the NYC area, and I got 15 inch wheels with 55 series tires on my 4400 pound car with a 175mph top speed that employs 400mm front brake rotors (let’s ignore the fact that the rotors required to stop my car are almost…

And please don’t push this false equivalence of a mob of people knowingly participating in an illegal shutdown of the street for dangerous racing, vs peaceful people protesting police violence. These dumb fuckers in the street are in now way equivalent to a BLM march. 

I am scratching my head on the weight creep. My ridiculously long and luxurious 2011 A8L weighed about 4450 pounds (NA V8). My current smaller 2016 S6 we had about the same, despite being a foot shorter and narrower (Audi Aluminum Space Frame on the A8 makes a huge difference). That this leaps to nearly 5000 pounds…

Thought the same thing immediately since they don’t really have any experienced drivers on the site anymore. 

The Jalop author recommends getting the ceramic brakes if you are going to track. In the real world, most of the people at PCA events that I go to who regularly track a street car remove the ceramics and use standard iron rotors at the track. The ceramics are 4x as expensive as a set of high quality track worthy iron…

Anything with a low first gear (like your Land Rover), and bonus for diesel for lots of low end torque, is the easiest way to acclimated to driving a manual. So for me, it was toodling around the yards and garages at my family trucking company as a 13 year old in a Mack truck during my summer job. With no trailer you…

It’s a very LONG body on frame. That said, unibody is actually easier to create a lower load floor, or to create under floor bins, spaces for third row seat to fold down into, etc. BOF SUVs usually have a higher load floor and no way to access space between frame rails (tho they often can get a full size spares…

Sorry for confusion - I agree with you. The site has gone from a technical site to blog. I always appreciated the fun they had mixed in with the technical, now it’s mostly fluff. 

Are there any hot shoes left on the Jalopnik staff? Travis Okulski- gone. Stef Schraeder- gone. Is there anyone on staff who races/does DEs? Is this why we see an actual car review once every 3 weeks? I know Covid has slowed some reviews but the big boys in the industry (C/D, R/T, etc) are still pumping out reviews.…

I drove a Subaru Forester with a CVT as my company car for several years, have driven Nissans with CVT. I will NEVER drive another CVT willingly- you can put one in a Ferrari F355 and I will walk away. A CVT is the rubber band of death. Sorry.