Full disclosure, too: Patrick and Ballaban waited until I was home to tell me about this email, which was a great call, and I wrote the narrative of this story on the plane back, so I wasn’t ANGRY WRITING this—it was a later addition.

Stef dropping truth bombs in the comment sections is best kinja

I’M SCREAMING. A professional PR rep actually said this to y’all?!? The hell? That is so freaking condescending that I would’ve crop-dusted the entire place and left early.

The same representative assured my bosses everything was fine, and said that while the briefing mentioned FIA requirements like a HANS device, Geely didn’t think we needed one because of speeds.

HAHAHAHAHAHA, you- you’re about to be passed by a Zamboni!

It’s just waiting for the playoffs to actually start working. 

Yeah but honestly, so what? I can understand the frustration in not seeing these being used in their proper form but the majority of people who buy these without needing them are the reason why these are still being made. Jeeps, especially the Wrangler and Grand Cherokee, are a large part of what are keeping FCA…

0 accidents/crashes is impossible. You might drive towards 0, but you will spend trillions upon trillions to achieve 0.

Pretty much every modern car with a plastic intake manifold has some variable geometry built in, Hyundai/Kia included. Basically it can be as simple as a flap that diverts air into a longer or shorter run

Toyota T-VIS from the 80s, BMW DISA from the ‘00s, some LSx versions, Ferrari 458 slide-whistle manifold...

I was just happy I never got stuck in the mudfest of a RallyX we had last year in our Daily Driver (on snows). :P Those on more proper tires weren’t near as covered in mud… There were sweepers full of water I just slid right through until I touched a smidge of actual mud and took off again. :D Our WRX certainly had…

Did someone say Subaru AWD woodie????

Nom nom nom.

Agreed 100%. Even though I’m black, I can’t speak for all of us, but I know my recent disdain for many white women has been at those who portray themselves as progressive or as being allies but don’t do shit but talk (McGowan) and get all defensive and lash out when POC try to correct them on our experiences (Midler,…

This sounds like such a mickey mouse operation

Call them “Limewire” and leave them all over the sidewalks for people to rent, download engine sounds through the app.

HD has it’s issues, no question about it, and the dealerships are a major part of the problem as indicated by the commentariat herein, but I love the look of this bike, and I whole-heartedly support HD’s attempts to modernize in a step-wise fashion (I despise every manufacture of anything anywhere that makes radical…

Do the horses enjoy it?  Neighgative.

So you’d say that the black one was driving in a roguish manner? Meanwhile the white one was just exploring their options to get away. 

There were good people on both sides.