Yeah, OP either hasn’t driven one or is just a Miata stan. Miata’s are great, but that doesn’t mean you have to shit on every other car in the category. Different strokes for different folks, and all.

^ This. The Kappa platform competed and won in SCCA, beating the Miata in the process. So ehm… yeah… OP doesn’t know what they are talking about. 

I know people like to really rag on the C4 Corvette, but I also think that people seem to forget that the C4 pre-LT1 was considered a barn burner in it’s time. It was so quick in SCCA showroom stock that it was temporarily banned and the constant banning and rule changes across various clubs in the United States…

The Kappas won SCCA autocross class championships and were regularly competitive. You don’t see many because they were only sold for 4-5 years before GM killed the brands, and don’t have the aftermarket support the Miatas have after 30 years of being in the market.

That’s not a 1953 Corvette, that’s more like a ‘58 that included significant improvements like a 283 ci V8 with 290 horsepowers. Damn kids these days.

I’d rather pay $80k for a car with the appropriate redundancies than $40k for a car that can only LARP as self-driving.

Autopilot is just a lane-keeping assist (LKA) with cruise control. My wife drives a 2023 Model Y and I have a Hyundai Santa Cruz. My Hyundai also has LKA. If you want the Tesla to drive for you, you’d have to upgrade to either “Enhanced Autopilot” or “Full Self-Driving.”

I’m dumbfounded by the idea that every non-dumbass on the planet knows that camera-only is a going-to-fail precept, except apparently those who work and design Teslas. How can it be that only 2 firing neurons can nonetheless deduce that glare, road grime, darkness, and water droplets can confound a camera system, but…

Who said that removing lidar and radar from the car was a bad idea when tesla did it?

It’s wild that we have this massive business market that literally consists of buying a company and then sucking as much money as possible from them until it dies. Pure vampire capitalism. 

Sounds like when a VC bought my previous employer, and my friends employer, and my dads employer, etc. VC’s can fuck off man, they just ruin companies for max profit. I doubt the automotive division lost money, but it probably didn’t make as much as the other product lines. Doesn’t matter that people will lose their…

“It’s astonishing that such a storied brand could be driven into the ground so quickly.” - Astonishing, yes. Surprising, no. Reason: private investment firm AKA bloodsuckers.

Another bunch of greedy assholes ruin a company. Anyone else as sick of VC and hedge funds ruining great companies as I am?  Fucking VC. ARRRGGGH

There won’t be any polls to take people to.  He was just telling his “beautiful Christians” that if he wins this election, he’ll fix it so they won’t ever have to vote again.

You’re on the mark....

Becareful.  Soon, the GOP will make it illegal to take someone to the polls.

Quite right.  I’m still doing what I can to convince others of his evil.  My GFs daughter was not going to vote for Biden, but she’ll vote for Harris, even if I have to drive her to the polls myself.

Don’t get too complacent—Harris hasn’t won yet. Hitler was considering a boob at first—then he drove Germany to complete destruction. And if American Hitler gets back in office (between gerrymandering, Donald-nazis, and christ-nazis; it could well happen), that outcome literally means the end of American democracy. So…

Trump says what he thinks will work in the moment. He has no values or beliefs. If he finds himself in front of a crowd full of Hindus he’ll declare that his Trump Steaks are vegetables. You can’t lie if you live in a world without truth.

Drumpf is always good for a laugh, when I’m not completely aghast at his evil intent.