That’s a big reason I bought a GR86. Yeah, RWD manual sports car with classic proportions practical enough for daily use with the 2+2 and fold down seat (I fit 9' boards in it and could probably do 10 with the trunk closed and 8 tires at one time), but a not-insignificant appeal is the lack of stupid BS that…

Or boring ass Honda with 1.5T or pretty much any Hyundai/KIA or Ford with an Ecoboost in apparently any flavor or ... Ridiculous counter demands on drivetrains of too much safety adding weight, plus mileage and emissions requirements, and customer expectations of power has resulted in backwards reliability and it’s…

The battery is not just energy storage, it’s the power delivery source. It’s why a long range (large battery) comes with a lot of power—the larger pack can discharge more power at a time safely. The motor just converts it into rotational work. A small motor will hamstring a big battery by limiting its work potential…

Only technically, as that would make it a Miller cycle engine. Though those are generally considered to be supercharged, it’s the forced induction portion that defines it and there’s nothing that would prevent a turbo from working with it instead. Having more off boost conditions, would kind of make it an…

That’s OK, they’ll get a second chance at a longer sentencing after they let him out in 2.5 years and he kills someone, per usual procedure. Or someone will take this guy out in self defense and they’ll sentence the defender to a longer sentence than this dirtbag got. What little child mentality thinks this garbage is…

That’s what you got from that. Wow. I don’t know how you tie your shoes. I guess that’s what Velcro is for.

You’ve pretty much got it. He’s referencing someone who misinterpreted a study either through malice or stupidity that looked into the mortality of COVID patients on vents—though it’s not a COVID-specific problem—that showed many patients had died of an acquired pneumonia that comes from being on a vent (VAP). The…

You really just took whatever this nonsense source as correct without thought? Nothing about it smelled funny enough to indicate that maybe you’d want to look into that claim—at least before parroting it—in order to not be seen as an idiot? Care to guess why some COVID patients were put on a ventilator? It’s OK, I…

Few? I’m lucky if I can drive a few miles without smelling a skunk’s ass. Go for a walk, same thing. City, woods, doesn’t matter—these entitled degenerate losers impose themselves on everyone else at all times worse than cigarette smokers used to. Moreover, these weak people drive terribly and the cops can’t test for…

When driving, I hate other drivers, cyclists (the spandexers, at least), and pedestrians. When I’m walking, I hate drivers, and at least half the other pedestrians. When I ride, I just hate drivers, so I guess that tracks for me.

I wish my car isolated me from outside smells. I can smell all the weed junkies driving…

And FEEL. You often felt connected to the machine you were operating. In many of these older cars, you could actually feel the texture of the road, the throttle was a GD cable that operated a more linear throttle without the hesitation of modern ECUs second guessing your demand, clutches with well defined catch points.…

Had an 1800 ‘83 sedan and ‘84 wagon and this is too much for me. ‘83/4 hardtop coupe with a stick and a better color. . . maybe, but still probably not.

While I have my doubts that even a properly designed bit of greenway is going to get people to go for a walk around downtown when there isn’t an event going on, relating to Detroit concerns with San Diego observations is cute. Since it’s pretty obvious you’ve never driven there, picture a place maybe two steps removed…

That would match my experience, as well. Trying to kick the tail out at about 20 mph in the snow on snow tires to cancel understeer on a turn once like I’d done a thousand times had me fighting alternating fishtails down the road worse than when I was learning to drive. I made sure subsequent cars had off switches for…

Do you mean the real event—not a scenario—the OP excused that I based a comparative statement on to point out the ignorant absurdity of his excusing a murderer based upon a bad assumption of PTSD? The article is about a crazy fuck who murdered a guy for no good reason after 2 years of some perceived minor grievance. OP…

Cool, so can I go kill people and use my documented PTSD as an excuse for sympathy and as a get-out-of-jail-free card? I’m such a victim! Guy was an old POS who stewed for 2 damn years over a stupid car repair that he never brought up with the shop as being what he felt was inadequate and that couldn’t have been that…

Shrunken balls, both figurative and literal.

All the innocent people cops shoot for no reason and they take this shriveled-balls POS in? And just 5 years? Who in the DA’s office is taking bets on how long it takes after he gets out to murder someone? Oh, he’s white . . .  ah.

Yeah, I would have used my car as a weapon on him. Bring a pipe to a car fight? Good luck, degenerate.

Unlike alcohol, weed can’t be pinpointed to being in the system to a specific time enough for OUI conviction, so as someone who lives in a legal weed state (and was naive enough to vote to legalize it, not realizing just how many weak, selfish losers there are out there who cannot apparently go more than a couple…