I wonder how many people stating that there’s no difference between a sports car woth a light off-roading package here have driven both a sports car and a generic crossover (ie, not a Macan or X3).

One one level, you’re not wrong, but when you think about crossovers being turbo-4 jellybeans with slushboxes based on FWD commuter architecture, there’s a key distinction:

You’re absolutely right, but you see, this is Jalopnik. On this site, implying that crossovers have any positive attributes is... well, frowned upon.

Vettel and The F Word should go sportscar racing. No need to risk life an limb in top level club racing at cheese grater oval and street tracks.

Tires jumped out at me too.  For all highway miles it feels like they should last much longer.

Is it just me or did this thing eat through rear tires like crazy? Unless they were constantly rotating  tires from front to back it was like every 30k miles while fronts were no where near as frequent.

yea, a bunch of these repairs seem like the kind of thing a typical car owner would just ignore.

Seems like half the car was replaced. My dad’s truck has 250,000 miles and he’s only replaced tires and brakes. I’ll stick to cars that don’t fall apart.

“The first like 200,000 were super low cost,” he said, but things went up dramatically from there, especially after 200,000 miles.

I would imagine most teams are now working hard back at their factories to come up with something similar, or just work out on paper how well something like this might actually work before committing to building it for themselves. After all, it’s likely a very expensive extra engineering project on top of their…

I’m more curious about how easy it is to accidentally activate, or whether it will be activated at the wrong time by mistake. Those drivers already have a boatload of things to process, so I wonder if that incremental little bit of mental energy is really worth the benefit when they’re trying to time their braking and…

Wait... I just had to google this... that's real? Holy shit that's ugly  

Honestly, the BMW actually looks pretty good. It’s at the very least a step up from whatever crack the design team has currently been smoking.

And then he’d offer the LONG version if needed.

Exactly. They’re not adjusting toe angle, they’re just steering the wheels semi-independently.

I’m sure there is a many-page-long power point on some Merc engineer’s computer demonstrating that steering and suspension are two very different and in no way linked no way no how no ifs and or buts about it systems.

Straight line speed was Merc’s big downfall last year. (Not that you can really say that a team who dominated the championship had much of a “downfall.”)

No adjustment may be made to any suspension system while the car is in motion.

*rulebooking intensifies*