That’s a laughably absurd statement. 1/4 (nearly) of anything is hardly insignificant.

You mean something like...

Yuppers - GM went to the trouble and expense to design patent a clutch-by-wire system for a mid-engine application. They are absolutely planning for the potential eventuality of a manual in their only mid-engine vehicle.

I believe the Chevrolet personnel have mentioned that there is a wing delete option you can tick.

It also clearly has the Z06 wheels (though that’s not a definitive indication).

Yeah, I think Darth is overanalyzing it. I cannot think of anyone who doesn’t have the 20-30 seconds of otherwise daily downtime that it takes open the app and pull up the seat map. If your life is such that you truly must forego performing critical, monetizeable activities in order to check an app, then securing a…

They originally did, but I don’t believe they are anymore. When I take an Uber/Lyft and I’m in a hurry, I plug my destination into Goggle Maps on my phone to be sure the driver takes the best traffic avoidance route, being in SoCal. Many times my phone’s Google route does not match the driver-phone’s Uber/Lyft app…

House Arrest in Quarters

Being a Naval Aviator, I can say that it’s not a traditional ceremonial practice for us, as it is in the SEAL community—I’ve never seen, nor heard of it being done. That said, I’m sure it -has- happened.

*HAQ

“I hate it when he does that, Mav...”

“Operational Necessity” is the legal term of art that KillerBee was looking for. And it’s pretty much a carte blanche exception to any and all administrative military regulations, when it can truly be justified.

I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say. I wasn’t trying to author a comprehensive life planning guide here in the Jalopnik comments, nor was I saying that everyone should make the same life choices in the directions of their destinies. I was simply pointing out a specific mistake that a lot of…

Let me provide a counterpoint: All screens look like ass and are now unnecessary. Backup cameras should display in the rearview mirror as some GM products are now doing, and navigation graphics should appear in the DIC, a la Audi. All other functions—audio, HVAC, etc.—should go back to manual control heads with real bu…

Yeah, I rented one of these a couple weeks back and genuinely felt the number of buttons on the steering wheel, coupled with their bunched layout, was borderline unsafe.

I agree wholeheartedly with your first statement, but am mystified by your second. While you can’t undo the past, the very way to provide useful help toward changing systemic problems going forward, is to point them out and identify their root causes, as I did, so that future generations don’t fall into the same error…

If you have $100k in student loan debt and you don’t have an M.D, a PhD (or at least Master’s) in nuclear physics, chemical engineering, or possibly architecture, then *yes*, you did it wrong. Perhaps you didn’t realize you were doing it wrong at the time, but you were gullibly hoodwinked into paying far more for…

*...all mid-engine supercars look pretty much alike... 

A Boxster looks nothing like a Lamborghini looks nothing like a Fiero.

This is not a criticism or a defense, and I’ve posted this before. While I’m not an engineer or a designer, it seems clear to me that the required architecture of a mid-engine car places much more restrictive limits on exterior dimensions and design than that of a front-engine automobile. The result being that all…

I really don’t get the “Spirit is the worst”, “I’d never fly Spirit even if it was the only way to get to my own mother’s funeral” responses. I’ve flown Spirit several times and aside of their unbundled price structure, they’re just a normal US airline, like any other, in terms of operation. In fact, they actually…