Some GT cars are heavier than other GT cars. What else is new.

The difference is only a matter of degree. Most of their design goals overlap considerably. In every traditional sense of the term, both cars are GTs.

Your unattributed quotation is the generic, ahistoric, modern definition of the term “sports car,” which is more than elastic enough to include the Mustang or any GT.

I don’t care about these irrelevant categories, but if you’re going to correct people at least get it right.

GT vs. sports car are old distinctions that are meaningless today. They’re both GTs by those standards.

That S-10 may have a bigger bed.

IDK how low your competence must be if your threshold results in a minor inconvenience taking your attention for a split second being weighted beyond a backup for slamming into a tree at 70 because you fell asleep, but it seems to contradict your insistence on being an uber-competent driver.

More than that, it’s a foregone conclusion that in order to develop a car you’re going to build prototypes that will be crushed. That is built-in to the whole bargain. This is how we come to have any Focus RSes at all.

You talk about human imperfections - one of them is a propensity to conditioning. Being conditioned to rely on an unreliable system is not helpful.

A lot of these systems are awful. They’re there to add a checkbox to the feature list or to appease an agency (or as we see here, to earn a higher score).

It is obnoxious, though the Punto scores at the bottom for passive safety, too.

Everything about that old interior is so much better. Designers - and buyers - have lost their minds.

Shouldn’t have worn that dress

The snarky commentariat have no idea what trickle-down economics even means.

Understanding that spending on that stuff is of benefit to everyone is not “trickle-down economics,” it’s just “economics.” It is pure stimulus.

“Form follows function.” “No compromises.”

You are disagreeing with a position that isn’t mine.

I stipulated up front that holding back in the corners and hammering it on the exit is only 75% as fun as driving 9/10ths. So it’s not me being all about straight lines.

It seems to me that you are the one ignoring what myself and others are trying to say.

Wat? Slow car fast has nothing to do with 9/10 driving, sliding around and making risky passes.