I’ve been on this crusade for awhile now. Anyone that thinks modern turbos don’t have lag just haven’t tried balancing a car in a corner at the limit of adhesion with said turbo. EVERY turbo has transient lag. You can absolutely drive around it, but to me, it just isn’t as fun as the immediate control you get from a…

I feel like with places like Noma, the “prestige” is tied with the fact that no two experiences are ever the same.

I’ve eaten at multiple 1, 2, and 3 Michelin starred restaurants and I cannot say there’s any real pattern between why one restaurant would warrant more stars than another. As far as I can tell, the biggest correlation with more stars is rather a place is fancier. The one exception to that is if the establishment was…

Maybe I can hand off the baby to her grandparents and convince my wife to come along with the promise of Torrance sushi. We’re looking to move anyway, so not a bad opportunity to check out some more houses in Palos Verdes. I’ll let you know.

I don’t even know where Radwood is. Anyway, with an almost four month old in the house, this Integra is all kinds of interesting to me. I already have my fun 2 seater and the Type S version of this will be a great kid hauler. If I were younger and without kids and looking for one car to do it all, I’d get the 86 and…

All I know is, if a tarted up Civic is good enough for the emperor of Japan, it’s good enough for me!

The spirit of the Integra is a tarted up Civic. Seriously, every single generation of Integra was a tarted up Civic, in various states of tune. This is a tarted up Civic.

Man, I’ve always wanted an EP3, but it’s always been a few cars down my list and so I could never justify it. These days, with the need for my around town car to haul a baby seat, the rear doors are a requirement. Although right now that car is a Fiat 124 (I’ve been waiting for this latest group of FF sporty cars to…

Yeah, this one has always confused me too. I just went along with convention, but if we wanted consistency, it should really be 2 door hatch and 4 door hatch, not 3 door and 5 door.

Mitsubishi please put a yoke in the Mirage.

Let me address the common complaints, one by one.

“It’s turbocharged 1.5-liter Vtec engine, like that found in the most recent Civic Si. In that car the engine made 180 horsepower and 177 lb-ft of torque.”

So much this. I have friends of all stripes sending me links to every crazy “overlanding” build because I’m the “overlanding guy” that they know. I then have to explain why taking a giant bus down the narrow trails that I like isn’t ideal, or how, though it would be nice to have a house on wheels, the kitchen sink…

These tests are generally used to acclimate a driver to a certain type of car so that they can step up to the series that the car races in. Therefore, they are generally for drivers that have never raced in those series. Chadwick has already raced multiple seasons in Formula 3, so there’s no purpose in having her do…

I have 32" AT tires (the LT Toyo A/TIIIs if you’re curious). The transmission will readily downshift if you’re not on flat land, but that doesn’t bug me that much. Ultimately, it really depends on what you prefer. Some people absolutely need to be able to go up a hill in top gear without downshifting, but for me, I…

Been wrestling with a newborn so I haven’t had a lot of time to devote to much other stuff.

Honestly, the squat isn’t terrible considering the camper on the back.  But even just jamming some rubber jounces onto the dampers would’ve helped fix the look.

The manual has much shorter gearing than the automatic. The effective gearing of 6th in the manual is shorter than 5th in the automatic. It’s probably still not short enough, especially considering the sail, but it isn’t terrible like the automatic’s.

We’re not talking about the 9th gen interior, which was famously cheap feeling, especially pre-facelift. Honda made a big jump with the 10th gen interior and the 11th gen interior is an even bigger jump. I’ve been in the 11th gen Civic (though not Si trim) and the 7th gen GTI (but not the 8th gen GTI), and the 11th…

The new Si is definitely the Nice One of that trio. The new Civic interior is at least on par with that of the German, and probably better. I never understood the hype for how nice the GTI interior was anyway since it was lots of anonymous looking black plastic. While the black plastic was admittedly soft touch, it…