Fuck the engine, how about that magnesium Hewland transmission? I’m sure it’s not as expensive as the engine, but still, $50K for a manual trans is somehow even more impressive to me than $100K for an engine. I’d be absolutely shocked to learn that the drivetrain for this car costs even a penny less than $200K.

It would be now, today, but when autonomous cars truly start to take over? When it’s a case of legislate for stricter driver testing or have no human drivers at all? When autonomous cars become cheap enough for the need for transportation no longer trumps the need for higher standards?

Mass hysteria is far more real than most folks realize. How about the Toyota unintended acceleration scandal?

In the end, surprise, it turned out there was nothing wrong with any of the Toyota models that were supposedly problematic. Nobody, not even freaking NASA, could reproduce the problem that people claimed was…

How about we just keep raising the standards for testing and licencing human drivers until their crash rate reaches parity with autonomous cars?

Don’t even begin to say it isn’t possible, because it absolutely is. There are professional drivers out there with millions of miles under their belts without ever having…

Oh my god, seriously! That has to be my least favorite modern styling trend. It is sooooo rare these days for a good looking car, especially a performance car, to come out that doesn’t have huge fake grille openings. That was one of the main factors that led my brother to buy his current car: a BK1 Hyundai Genesis…

I have a huge soft spot for these things as my dad drove one for years and years. ‘97 model with the “Autobahn Package,” which was a rarely selected option. It was pretty decrepit by the time I made it to high school and it wound up becoming the car I drove most often back then. I got into a pretty good amount of…

Already got the tire stockpile started for next year!

“ Why all the wacky, puffer fish faced body work and dinky wing stanchions?”

I dunno, it kinda makes sense in a way that the shittiest pirate would have the most kick-ass flag. As a pirate you need to have something going for you, even if it’s just your sick gang sign.

The take-down for Mark Manson’s “think piece” on feminism is to simply reflect his argument. He thinks tribal feminism is bad? Okay, sure, it is. I agree with that. Tribal feminism is bad, 

They did it by designing and manufacturing an all-new, completely bespoke cylinder head that’s backwards compatible with the old 964 engine architecture.

If that sounds outrageously expensive, that’s because it is.

“Ken Block said the Hoonicorn cost $1,000,000.” 

Add to that his discharge was over a domestic violence incident, which the US military has never given a shit about.

That’s really what did it for me. You’re going well over 200 MPH and then you shift up. What a sensation that must be.

Our dog is impossible to keep out of the car. You open the door, he’s in there; you don’t get a vote. He loves being in cars so much it doesn’t even need to be on the move. In fact, one of his greatest joys in life is laying in a car that’s up on jack-stands being worked on for the day.

Yea, $60 ≠ $70 dumb mental math error, so the difference is even greater than stated.

“3A. Much more expensive? Not much more.”

Professional tire mechanic here. Run-flat (or “zero pressure” as they’re more often called now) tires are never to be re-inflated and re-used after they have been driven on when flat, or even repaired at all under any circumstance. That’s a huge no-no. Any tire shop which did that would be %100 liable for any ill fate…

Seriously, a savvy social media manager or some such could turn this impending PR disaster into a positive if they got their ass in gear right now with something resembling your plan, perhaps alongside meaningful statements about how they fucked up by being wasteful in the first place. They could even drum up a…