Elises come with 16 front and 17 rear standard. I changed mine to 15s all around. This is not a common style, but I like mine. They’re mismatched wheels that are 8 inches wide in front and 8.5 inches wide in the rear.

The Honda ER!

That’s because the majority of Americans can’t seem to figure out that they’re only using 1/4 of the available gas pedal travel.

Honestly, most of the people who were in the scene in the late 90s or early 2000s have moved onto the overlanding trend. Which makes for another interesting story: how did people who lived life a quarter mile at a time decide that they’d rather crawl over rocks.

The Plymouth Prowler!

The Elise has a surprising amount of leg room.  Try it out, you might be surprised.

So this kart has about a third of the power of a non-shifter TaG kart.  Got it.

Oh please. Luc Alphand is a Dakar overall car class winner and the dude started as a World Cup skier. Jean-Louis Schlesser is a F1Reject (I use this term in the most endearing of ways) and is an overall car class winner.

“Basically, it keeps cars from locking up.”

Seriously.  At least this has an interior.  Instead of the unfinished design study buck Elon insists every Tesla comes with.

A part of that has to do with the demographics that drive such vehicles. Back when I was growing up, cops targeted import tuners for noise violations, but never pulled over loud muscle cars or Harleys. Going back even further to 1958, California actually passed anti-lowrider regulations by making it “illegal to…

I agree with “Never Outsource Your Halo Car,” but I feel like the Lexus LC is much more the halo car of Toyota even though it’s not a Toyota.

Here’s the issue, the Feds are just looking for any excuse to try to yank the waiver, despite California pretty clearly meeting the conditions for a waiver under the law. By saying that California has an air pollution problem, that means that the Feds are admitting that California has a compelling or extraordinary…

Well, California’s waiver is codified into law.  The executive doesn’t have the power to change legislation, only execute it.  Revoking California’s waiver, which is explicitly allowed under laws passed by Congress, is actually illegal and goes against the express intent of Congress.  If he wants to revoke it legally,…

Agree with that. What America calls overlanding is really just putting a RTT on a trophy truck or rock crawler. Very few Americans look to do actual long distance overlanding trips.

A part of me is kind of saddened that, somehow, the overlanding craze in North America has bypassed Nissan.  I would really love to see more overlanding Armadas considering the Patrol’s overseas legacy.

Unfortunately I track all my sports cars and my driving style involves using the throttle to control the attitude of the car. Sure, I know the boost will kick in within a half second or whatever, but my driving is at the point where even a split second difference in power delivery will mean a slide. Whatever you can…

Turbo lag isn’t just an engine rpm thing. No matter what rpm you’re at, when you get back on the throttle after being off throttle, there’s a momentary phase where the turbo needs to spool up, and during that period you’re getting a lot less power than what you’re used to. Plus, when the turbo kicks in after that…

Money doesn’t buy skill or bravery.  Despite their insistence that since they have a Ferrari, they must be advanced drivers.

Unpopular* opinion: If what Toyobaru is going for is a pure sports car, they should remove the turbo. I’ve owned modern turbocharged, supercharged, and NA sports cars, and turbocharged cars are by far the most frustrating to drive on track and on a twisty canyon road (of which I do both often). The much bally-hooed…