Anyone who feels better about it stopping some unspecified 9mm isn’t in danger. I imagine a targeting assassin is going to use something with more power and most mass shooters seem to use rifles. I guess it could still slow or deflect a more powerful round, but so does glass and it could deflect the wrong way. To also…

I love teak, but it’s an odd choice of wood for this. The natural oils that make it weather and insect resistant also make it difficult to glue. What works well is to clean it with a solvent, like acetone, and use epoxy. That’s even more work and money than a more appropriate choice of wood. No surprise some of it is…

First, it’s been on sale forever. Almost any car that old would be dropping sales, but sports cars are especially prone to it as they sell a lot on novelty/fashion as well. People who can afford a toy can likely afford something a lot more expensive and the rest can’t afford a toy. What doesn’t help the Miata…

As someone who has seen people I care about assaulted and die slowly (unrelated incidents), had 30 years of PTSD, nearly starved to death, and had plenty of times they assumed they were looking at death from violence and sudden medical problems, for some of us, it’s the relatively little things that are the worst.…

I think I experienced this behind what I thought was an asshole in a Model Y on the highway yesterday where they seemed to hammer the brake instead of slowing at a normal rate when traffic slowed a bit. This was after last year when I encountered several Teslas that I thought were weirdly brake-checking me on a…

I assume by his whining about not getting engagement that he’s a social media parasite.

Without windows, it’s a toy, and putting windows in is difficult at best (unless they’ve done a redesign recently), you’re not building one for anywhere near $11k, and it’s their lowest quality kit, so it would take a lot of work to just bring it up to British Leyland standards. One has to ask with these things:…

I had a friend who got a straight-cut race box for his street car. I warned him about the noise and he basically dismissed me as being a wuss. After maybe a week with it, he had a built helical box on order.

OK, deleting my rant against the encroachment of E-disposability into simple, resilient, and long-lived machines, for an all out racing bike I can see the point of the incremental gains of e-shift and, as the whole bike is disposable and not intended for general use, it doesn’t really matter. My concern is that, like…

1. Close off long street.

My guess is you don’t want to see the pics of it in the house. While not dirt cheap, there weren’t worth that much in the ‘80s and I wouldn’t be surprised if it needed a major overhaul or similar resulting in the under-funded owner putting it in the living room. The article says it was discovered in this guy’s place,…

People don’t buy performance and sports cars because they’re afraid of motorcycles. Some of us just have little to no interest or use for them and/or don’t want to be associated with certain highly visible bands of riders. Just because it’s registered as a motorcycle, doesn’t mean it is one, it’s more an issue of not…

It’s probably more because it makes sense for a tadpole 3-wheeler to be FWD than RWD since so much of the weight is in the front (where it should be in these kinds of vehicles) and, of course, there are two wheels to distribute traction. It’s also easier to package and keeps weight down, though the former is not as…

Sales numbers are still terrible. I have no idea how they make any money at those volumes and what must be tiny profits. Previous year sales for the Mirage is about the same as the GR86 and I’m sure there are quite a lot of people in Toyota’s financial group that would gladly kill that off. This is more indicative of…

Power comes with range as a bigger battery can discharge more power or the same power with lower stress. For a car with a battery that supplies the range people want, it would essentially be intentionally hobbling the car to put a smaller motor in it for little savings in cost to the OEM at the loss of range from…

He apparently has no idea how much the trial defense and sentence would have cost him had the kid died (he obviously doesn’t care about the kid, so I’m ignoring guilt or other emotional cost that a human would feel). I love my car, too, but if someone had to cause some damage to it to save the life of even a stranger,…

yeah, they get compared because they’re really the only two cheap sports cars left, but they’re about as far apart as cars can be in that rather narrow category. I have a GR86 and have never had much interest in a Miata whatsoever (I love that they exist and what they did for sports cars, it’s just not for me as it’s…

It’s also largely a Subaru platform. It’s really mostly Subaru even though it seems Toyota pushed for it. Subaru seems completely disinterested in selling them.

I lucked out. Ordered it as soon as the configurator went live, dealer that I had no prior relationship with called me, and I put down a deposit not expecting to maybe see a car in six months. Six weeks later, I got exactly what I was looking for at MSRP, which was barely more than a Corolla hatch if you could even…

The twins ride remarkably well and the driving position feels roomier than some bigger cars. With the folding seats, it fits a lot more crap than I expected. Biggest problem with that is loading due to the shape and size of the trunk opening.