I was contented with my Fiesta ST until I test drove an ND Miata. The taste of that sweet, impractical forbidden fruit lingers still.

It’s very clearly Ron Howard.

Andre Braugher is exceptional in B99. He’s playing so completely against type, and it’s a work of art.

It’s possible, but having lived here for 20 years, I’d say the evidence doesn’t support it.

On the grounds that a feature that proves useful to 8 million, or 10 million, or thirty million people in the country is probably a net value-add, and not fundamentally ‘bad’ because one author believes he can perfectly decipher legal driving speeds based on the road conditions.

I’m not sure that my position is one…

“Put me on any commonly traveled road in any car in the U.S. and I’m confident I could tell if I was moving quickly enough to get justifiably pulled over.” 

That it’s an insufficient rebuttal. :)

Eight million of us beg to differ.

I dunno, I found the Mazda HUD in my folks CX-9 to be helpful and unobtrusive.

You can do this with fish because fish barely needs to be cooked.

I...don’t hate this. It’s got kind of a Mad Max quality to it that I dig.

iirc the recently refreshed/redesigned Mazdas (CX-5, CX-9, and now the 6) are at the top of their class for road and wind noise.

I’ve definitely had 2 star missions where I end up being put up against a couple lights, and maybe a shoddy medium and heavy.

I got a headshot kill on a Quickdraw with the very first salvo I fired.

It probably helps that the game’s director, Mike McCain is also an artist and responsible for many of the game’s most evocative illustrations.

I looooove the mouse-over tool tips, but I wish there were also a ‘Battlepedia’codex or something where you could view all that information at your leisure.

I believe, as things currently stand, the ‘skull rating’ is an estimate, and things can have up to a full skull variance in either direction, depending how various modifiers and randomizers shake things out. It’s supposed to represent the unreliability of intel. Could stand to be a little more communicative, though.

Yep. I was gonna say, it’s always been ‘luxe.’

I’m a little salty because these vehicles don’t cost all that much more than cars to produce, but by the effect of some strange perception filter, people see this pricing as reasonable, or at least expected, for what amounts to a tall wagon.

I generally agree. It’s more that I question the use of the word “only,” as though this were some kind of raging bargain.