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.

Better midrange torque (or just no dip in it) would be welcome, but I trust that overstressed little engine even less than the FA24D and I’m no fan of AWD (I even prefer FWD—though not in a sports car—as my 3 former Subarus that were FWD drove much better than their AWD mates while getting better mileage and having no…

Dur, you stupid luddite, we can obviously trust steer-by-wire because hur dur airplanes.

“But I still live my truck, thanks, Elon!”

Try explaining it to the average moron while they insist on attempting it. I tried a few times over the years and they obviously thought they knew better even though their lack of success and what they must know is a deficit of automotive knowledge should tell them they’re on their back foot, so now I leave them to…

That was a pretty good one.

That’s what I thought. I would think this would be crossing against the light, not jaywalking, but maybe there’s no distinction.

My guess is the height of the hood might have something to do with it. Vehicle impacts in shoulder area and force of the hit throws body forward while unimpacted head tries to remain stationary? Tall hood also wouldn’t help visibility. Same with loss of a head, but that’s at the bottom of the list of problems at that…

This is a late reply, but one thing that I didn’t see mentioned in a scan of other comments is also the feel of quality. A Corolla effectively does what a Rolls Royce does (better if measuring as a simple car), but the feeling of quality is vastly different, making simple operations like flick of a switch a small joy.…

Most of the time, that was because the rear wheel well cut into the door, not leaving enough internal space for full retraction. Some cars would have the glass pivot down farther at the leading edge to get a little more drop while the rear would stick up. To the uninitiated, it looked like the window track had failed.