I think a lot of competitive games will play to certain patch levels as well. Like, even if a new character goes live in Overwatch, they aren’t viable for tournament play for a while, which effectively limits all the other changes that may have gone live in the patch that released the character.

that staffers should tell female students to not dress like prostitutes.

I didn’t even know my old Vette had a shifter interlock until the cable finally gave up one day.  I though the shifter felt a bit springy.  When I looked under the car I saw the interlock cable had buckled so it was forcing the shifter back toward park.  Basically you can’t shift out of park unless the key is turned,…

So, is this the first EV friendly town?  Are are enough of these carts still of the gasoline powered variety?

I guess that chips in keys and the stuff like that would be one way to make that less common, but it causes its own issues.  Even if every automaker was just assigned a set resistor or RFID or something.  When there are millions of cars on the road you’re bound to have some common keys, just funny when it’s someone in…

This is when I learned that the most important gauge is not the speedo, but the tach. Speed is secondary, so it sits off to the side. Doesn’t matter how fast you’re going into that corner, what matters is how much rev range you’ve got left before you have to shift again.

Yep, external starter solenoids made things so easy.  I’ve done enough work with my dad on older cars where you need to crank it over or something to line up a timing mark or something like that and a big screwdriver across the solenoid was usually the ticket so you didn’t have to get dirty hands in the interior.

I just have a manual transmission in most of my cars.  Probably helps deter a fair amount of people.  I’d also say I have loud colorful cars that I drive often enough that they stand out, but if you put something in a trailer no one would know I suppose.

Also, drivers (typically male) who are way too calm as they perform virtually impossible driving maneuvers,

Has no one mentioned vehicle thefts? Someone jumps in a car, yanks two wires out from under the dash, flashes together the conveniently stripped ends until the engine starts, twists them together to keep it running, then just puts it in gear and drives away? No steering wheel and shifter interlock? Has this been even…

That makes sense.  Interesting to see the history as well.  Thanks!

I would struggle to call these hyperbikes, but only because I don’t believe they are necessarily that nimble from what I’ve heard of them.  Top speed monsters for sure, and I suppose quick enough to turn when at speed, but I’ve heard they are pretty hampered when things slow down a bit.  Maybe that’s true of the H2…

Once thought of as purely myth, we now know that the midengine Corvette is no tall tale. It is real, it exists in our dimension

Yeah, it’s definitely weird.  If nothing else I would expect people to say “Mustangs are my kind of car” if you want to talk about them as a whole population in a very grammatical way.  Language is pretty fluid though, so most people get the implications in statements like that.  Totally agree leaving out “the” is a…

I had a fun one like this when I went to register my Viper after I bought it.  The county clerk was having a hard time finding the code in the system for it, which is somewhat understandable since they are low volume.  However, I know of something like 4 others in town, one of which being my mother’s and another that…

I like the front of the car, the back I’m not so sold on.  Good thing I don’t have the money to have to worry about it.

I’d say it more due to use case.  You tune the engine for where it’s going to be spending its time.  The same reason drag racers have super peaky power curves.  You only have to get the engine to the upper rpm range once, then the gearing just keeps it there.  It seems like drifting might use more than 1000 rpm of…

I can understand this from a manufacturer’s standpoint, but only with the thinnest of veils. To them the car is an entire car line and population. Talking about it without the “the” could be in reference to the entirety of the product population, while most people would refer to it as “the” because they are talking…

I put all the receipts for things I’ve bought for my 67 Dart project car in a banker’s bag.  The bag is getting too small to fit them.  It’s a 5.7 Hemi swap and I mostly just kept them for novelty and curiosity.  I’ve done all the work myself, so not sure if the receipts are as valuable to someone as if a service…

The restrictors actually make sense to me.  That seems like the “easiest” way to effectively limit the horsepower of an engine.  Just stating the rule as a horsepower target though is more what threw me a bit.  I don’t think that’s really a realistic way to put it.  It might effectively be what they are going for, but…