The Alta was very predictable. Blows my mind how the best of all the bunch seems to have scrubbed from history

Ray is wrong. There are different classes of logos, and the KIA badge is a logotype. It’s a logo that plays visually with the name, initials, etc. Think FedEx, NASA, Netflix... many are drawn from scratch so a typeface (and thus a font) is never involved.

The difference on two wheels is that throttle stands the bike up. I remember riding an early electric dirt bike where the engineers tried to get clever about brake and throttle inputs (not allowing overlap in specific situations), and I low sided it for that reason. After getting the bike leaned over, I cracked the…

The guys I know who have switched to new bikes in the last few years had to adapt their riding style to suit. To be competitive at all, they need to be pushing so hard that the aids are constantly at work. One of these guys wheelied/looped his bike, because he has to give WOT at the apex, and the electronics failed on…

Only 380k?

In SF Bay you offer whatever the bank is willing to lend you and hope there are no cash offers. Then you hope it appraises high enough that you can cover the gap (there will be a gap, and it will be 6 figures). Finally you hope the person you paid actually owned the home, since you waived all your contingencies up…

Your 10 year old SUV is not an appreciating asset, but my car absolutely is. Buy classics and you don’t have to eat the depreciation. Sometimes you’ll even make money!

This bike looks like it got it’s bodywork from a totalled Type R. They should have been scrambling to hire Alta’s unemployed designer...

Ironically the most troublesome cars I’ve owned were all VWs. Alfas of the Busso era and especially earlier were incredibly well engineered and built. They wouldn’t have been winning races since... forever ago if that wasn’t the case. I’d blame the reliability trope on the average American’s lack of mechanical…

Engineers shouldn’t be designing anything at all. There’s a separate role for that, and it’s hiding right there in the verb.

I came here to say this car has a goatee

Loud is good, you’re getting feedback. The benefit of old cars is weight & feedback. You can’t buy a 1400# production car these days (to my knowledge), and you’ll never be as fast around a corner in a 3000# car. So “slow” is relative to the car’s use case. “Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast…

Alfa never stagnated like Guzzi did. They still make legitimate high performance cars, like the current QF. Guzzi doesn’t have anything today that compares to a Le Mans, or a Sport 1100, or an MGS-01...

They’re one of the oldest brands, used to have racing pedigree, were innovative, but haven’t done anything in decades. I’d say Lancia.

I don’t get how this could be any simpler... one intermediate chain and one chain per bank to drive the cams. Am I missing something?

I doubt the arm had anything to do with it. It got “stuck”. Likely a high center snagging the trailer. I’m sorry but I call bullshit on your bullshit

Richard Petty is still alive??

Faster is a loaded word... faster where? Sports cars are built for tight circuits and fast b-roads, and weight is king. Start adding weight because you want more power, you get a GT car, and you’re slower in the corners. Cars that aren’t built for canyon driving aren’t fast there.

How did Jalopnik trick you into writing something this good for them

I think this attitude shows how conservative we are. Car styling is criticized like 19th century art... cows beside a stream and trees and “I know what I like”. Girl with a Pearl Earring and the Tipo 33 are pretty in a way that’s easy to accept. The SZ is challenging, it takes time to process why you’re stuck looking…