This one is easy, get a Viper. Badass sounding and looking? Check. Manual? Check. Easy to drive? Despite what everyone says, yep. They are perhaps hard to drive at the limit (or the limit is hard to get to depending on your courage), but they are easy to drive regularly. Plus, they’re pretty cheap comparatively…

I think the challenge with “pod” cars will always be crash safety.  I realize the bodies for most cars that still actually use full frames are only held on with a few bolts, but in reality they are pretty well fixed to the car.  I suppose part of that has to do with the controls having to interface between the cabin…

our moneyed investor class isn’t convinced that General Motors, Ford and the rest are moving fast enough, or are prepared enough for our electro-autonomous-mobility future

Ford Exec 1: Okay, we need to cut all our sedans and only make trucks, SUVs, and the Mustang since that’s all America wants.

When were we supposed to have flying cars?  That was the year 2000 right?  Something like 30 years after they were dreaming of them in the 70s?  Call me skeptical, but yeah right, no way this is going to happen in 30 years.

The idea is that the car can shape shift and meld with the driver, showing their emotions

I don’t really get Wall Street, but then again I’m not them.  I’m not sure I see how they can expect a huge company with products that have a design time of 5+ years to somehow heel turn and change their entire portfolio overnight.  Even if the CEO promises that they are going to do it, it just doesn’t happen that…

The only possible excuse I could come up with would be for playing on the beach in sand.  The wide tires would help to keep you from digging in as much, but that’s a pretty loose excuse at best.

True, though I would think the higher rpm of smaller engines would have a significant effect on friction as well.  The higher relative speeds of components would seem to cause increased friction, though I’m not sure what the ratio is like.  The thought being that large engine + low rpm = X amount of friction, but…

That’s another thing that people never seem to bring up either. Turbo cars often run way richer fuel mixtures under power for safety. I think the typical idea with turbo’d engines is often that the engine is powerful enough with zero boost to handle cruising and light loads, but the turbo kicks in when you actually…

Honestly, I think this thing looks stellar. Reminds me a lot of the Ferraris that everyone seems to care so much about (like this 250 SWB):

People often seem to not realize that burning fuel is actually what makes power, not just the size of the engine in which the fuel is burned. Yes, a larger engine might not be as efficient in some cases, but the smaller engine has the same problems, just usually in different rpm bands. A powerband is just that, a…

My dad’s Stealth had a similar number of miles on the clutch. I think we bought it with close to 100,000 on the clock and the engine slipped the timing belt at 255k, requiring a rebuild. We went ahead and put a new clutch in at the time, but the old one still looked fine. The main reason was it was his highway…

This solidifies my argument that the 911 is really just the European Corvette.  The sales numbers are pretty similar and the strategy of selling other stuff to afford making the fun cars kinda parallels well too.

The trick with this though probably lies more with apartment dwellers vs homeowners. While I agree that you only refill what you use, people don’t go and fill their gas tanks every day to top off for the next day. They don’t necessarily need 300 miles of use every day, they want 300 miles of use before having to…

Stuff that will never be in an electric car because it will be a waste, lol.  I want it to rock back and forth slightly like when you have a nice cam and make engine noises.  I know we’re all about quieter cars for a more relaxed drive or better focus, but for me auditory queues tell me a lot about how I’m driving.  I…

I once went from a car with basically no features to a car with most of them, but the sheer boredom of driving it (and maybe also a breakup) made me want something else. I had been driving either a 71 Corvette or a 67 Dart and bought a used 2000 XKR for daily duties when I got my first job. Went from…

Really anime doesn’t seem all that different from something like a Pixar film in some ways. They are both animated, just in different styles. That being said, I think the language barrier still hurts these some. And by language I don’t always mean what they are saying and how it’s translated. I mean the universes of…

Wow, what a world when a regular production Japanese car beats a Ford GT in sales price.

My dad was asking if there was a plane game for his recently acquired Xbox before Christmas so my brother got him AC7 on preorder and I got him a flightstick.  Now I want to play it the more I read about it and see it.