Sort of agree. Loss of power steering is more psychologically jarring than anything because turning it through all that resistance makes you think you are about to break something. 

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Losing my mind over this too. Even if you can come up with some arbitrary way to define the sidewall as “not important”, it’s notably the part of the tire you can’t even patch! When it gets damaged you need to replace the whole-ass tire!

Yeah, this is why it being the “least ugly Lexus” still isn’t a compliment. 

I don’t have any direct references handy, but I think it’s been well reported he’s been unhappy with the car since 2022, and feels like there’s not enough progress being made. There’s also probably an undertone that Merc will be Russel’s team in the future.

I’m actually going to second Tom’s recommendation on the Altima. I had one as rental in Florida last year, and honestly it was a lot better than I was expecting. The seats particularly were quite comfortable, so much so I wouldn’t at all mind it as a daily. If you can live with the judgement from this community for…

I just played with the builder a bit, and noticed the number of trims and options in general are notably low. Seems a bit unusual. 

Adding that linear bit of taillight to the liftgate is a pretty on the nose “we don’t know what else to do here” move.

I actually think this is one of the least offensive looking Lexus/Toyota products. But that bar is so low, you need a shovel to reach it.

I prefer it too, but it’s also a bit more generic and nondescript.

That’s probably ground zero for this whole exercise. The only question left is will Haas or someone else actually be willing to sell in 4 years when they will get more for the sale, or does Andretti stick to starting a new team from scratch.

(Sad Trombone)

This is one of those things that I love tying back to evolution: Claustrophobia is literally a downstream affect of millions of years of people going into enclosed spaces and not coming out.

I generally regard Jim Farely as one of the less-dumb CEO’s but holy shit:

I am weirdly against updating the underside of these. The waterbed-esque suspension and lazy motor that pulls up to like 60 is part of the experience.

1000%. In my mind, Diablo’s were always purple, but I am looking at this thing for the first time and-

I honestly don’t think Lac-Mégantic happening in Penn Station would do it, even if the root causes were even more obviously traceable to the responsible RR actively choosing profit motive over common-sense safety practices.

It’s definitely a problem of the railroad’s own making. It used to typically just be a product of poor rail & equipment maintenance, but Precision Scheduled Railroading has made it so much worse. Trains are assembled longer and with less regard for weight distribution, and as a result, we put on trains on the ground…

No idea how much actual momentum this has behind it, but I can say as a local, the general response I got to the NASCAR race was “why isn’t this F1 instead?“. I personally am enthralled with either series coming here, but F1 doesn’t have the same uphill battle of “the dumb hick racing series” stigma NASCAR has here.…