Agree.

Is there anything wrong with it?

Look the simple story here is that octane rating is a means to prevent pre-ignition. Any car with OBDII will tell you if you are doing it wrong because it will have knock sensors to detect pre-ignition. The best tuning you can hope for is as much timing advance as you can get before pre-ignition. Thats the point of…

If your engine is naturally aspirated and not high compression, running anything other than the recommended 87 is throwing money away. It’s that simple.

Or just resuscitate the old S2000 platform, drop the current Civic Type R motor in, and call it a day?

So this whole crowd already knows what this car should be, compared to what it is. Dumping the manual and farming everything out to BMW sure makes business sense, but gearheads aren’t swayed by Toyota’s business sense. And gearheads are the only ones who would’ve bought this car anyway. The normies will get a C8 or a…

I mean, the Cayman exists and isn’t trying to be something its not in anyone’s eyes.  The C8 is new and exciting.  The Supra is the sportscar version of the BMW Mini, which wasn’t anything the original Mini was.

This is a good take

I think the problem here is that you can’t actually market this thing to people who don’t know about cars. There’s no wool-pulling. It’s not like the Urus (I finally have an excuse to drive a Lambo!) or some heritage-laden tweedmobile (Careful with the Jag, darling).

Lots of car names became famous to normies for…

Kia: Behold the Stinger, attractive, high performance car at a good price!

This place has been going down hill for years. I have been shadow banned more times than I can count.

I’m a complete Toyota homer, and there’s almost nothing that excites me about this car.

The other thing that’s missed is that a huge portion of frequent flyers, regardless of distance, are doing it for work because they *need* to, not out of leisure.  And I’ve already seen people suggest the same thing should happen in the US, where flying is the *only* viable method of transit for 90% of situations. …

Aaron, your ignorance and overwhelmingly leftist ideas shine brightly in this coagulation of garbage you call an article. You clearly have no expertise in the matter, yet you spew your unfounded opinions blindly in hopes that people like you, eat it up. Sadly, there will be a few who will actually agree with you and…

This is a very relevant article, if read in its entirety: https://e-csr.net/plane-cars-means-transportation-pollution-27537/

Summary:
The average EUROPEAN car logs about 55g of CO2/passenger/km.
A Plane logs about 285g of CO2/passenger/km.

Pretty disappointed in this article. I would have expected a senior reporter to have a better handle on the nuances of this argument.

With the right tax structure, a lot of people might think twice about flying those short hops, opting for the train or bus instead.

I’ve got a choice right now between a 1 hour, $150 roundtrip flight to see family, versus 8 hours each way in the car and the same cost in fuel. Fuck your idea.

I’m glad I got to spend a good bit of my life where the past and the future were built around the idea of democratization of travel as opposed to the demonization of travel. Obviously there are all kinds of problems to be solved, but who wants to live in a society who’s vision for the future is to just tax everyone…

Because giving more money to the government is always the best solution.