I just look at this and look at the 5.7 Hemi in my 67 Dart and think “I could use a KERS style boost button on the steering wheel...”.  Seems like it would be easy enough to add from a mechanical standpoint (replace the alternator).  I’d have to really dumb down the electronics though to basically be an on/off switch…

Hmm, $100k more than the Viper GT3-R they made several years ago.  Wonder what pricing is like for other factory GT3 models.  Anyone out there have some other ones to throw out?  I’m sure class changes and stuff have probably made prices different through the years, but it’s not that often a manufacturer builds a spec…

WoW does this as well.  You get extra backpack slots for enabling both an authenticator app and SMS text alerts.

I’m fine with inviting peaceful and productive immigrants across our borders, but it should be done legally. That’s the main issue I have with it. Should the process be easier? Probably. But that doesn’t make it right to avoid just because it’s difficult/expensive. It’s difficult and expensive to get proper building…

I pretty much agree, though better efficiency can also mean better power.  Getting more useful energy out of every drop of fuel is great.  Making cars lighter is also probably a good thing for the most part.  Making gutless pigs with no features just to meet you fleet requirements is unfortunate.

Interesting, thanks for the tip!  I’ll have to check it out and see what I can find around me.

I don’t really disagree with you, but then again that’s always kind of been Mopar’s thing. I realize the modern world is more about being good all around and not just straight line, but that’s what Mopar has always been best at.  Catering to their primary fan base with huge power numbers and fast 1/4 miles.  Does that…

I have some GoPro videos.  I’ll have to see what I can dig up.  I only really have them from the first year I went, but I should still have a few.

Cool!  Thanks for the link!  I’ll have to check that out and see if there’s anything around me.

Haha, that’s awesome!  It’s funny what they used to make race cars out of back in the day, but I guess if that’s what was in the showroom that’s what they raced.

The same thing that any car without the aids will do?  Learn to drive the car, don’t rely on it to do the work for you.

I’m fully expecting the computer in it to die one day, but I know I can put in an aftermarket solution to deal with it.  I know there are some aftermarket traction control setups with some stability control, but it would likely not be as good of control since it wasn’t tuned specifically for that car.  I don’t hear…

Fair enough. They are basically the great equalizer. Maybe that’s why I don’t really care for them. To me they get in the way of learning how a car behaves and getting better at driving it so that I can master it. Admittedly I don’t think many others see it that way. I daily drive my Viper because I want to get used…

The Vette has been running similarly wide and sticky tires for the past several years as well as most other supercars. I see aero as a mechanical solution to the problem vs an electronic one. I trust the mechanical solution to work more often than an electronic one a decade from now.

Nice of them to make the upgrades optional.  Great way to appease both the classicists among us as the ones who want to show their friends that old games still have a place.

Not learning how to feather the throttle and steer to actually do it yourself? Turning the act of driving into putting your foot to the floor and letting the car figure it out is just boring, even if you do get to go fast.

I want to know where they are getting their “twisty/scenic” information and if you can get it without the motorcycle. I have wondered for some time if there was a map website online that had the twistier routes around you. Granted I also live in Kansas, so even if there was a map it wouldn’t be for me, lol

To me though that’s saying that your base chassis is flawed to begin with if you are relying on the driver aids to keep it manageable.  Using electronic design to cover for poor mechanical design is the problem I have with a lot of modern cars.

Tell me the Viper ACR isn’t good as chassis tuning and design.  It’s a world beater and did it all without traction control for several years.

I agree with you to some degree, but I think a lot of cars use them as a crutch too.  If your car is prone to under or oversteer or something and it fundamentally flawed in suspension design and they just use driver aids to make it manageable, that’s the issue in my head.  I agree that a better driver will be able to…