Oh that part I DIDN’T know. Side note, how many times have you re-watched Top Gear in its entirety? It’s gotta be close to a dozen times for me. I have every season up until Clarkson got fired, and the ones with Matt Leblanc. I was even able to find the FIRST season with Jason Dawe about 10 years ago. I’m gonna look…

I’m pretty sure in the episode with Schumacher, he was ACTUALLY driving the car and doing the lap time. If memory serves me correctly, it was a Ferrari FXX directly from Ferrari, and he was the only one they trusted to drive it. If you look at the video (Season 13, episode 1), it’s clearly a smaller person driving the…

Swirled but clean paint still looks better than dirty paint. 

This is a YouTube series waiting to happen, TBH. And I would watch every single episode.

Forget about all that. Get the nicest Aston Martin Rapide you can find.

About the size of a 5 Series, so not HUGE. The hybrid system adds a LOT of pork. Like almost 1000 lbs.

The regular Panamera Turbo S Sport Turismo is about 4200 lbs (1900 kg) if I remember correctly. The hybrid gubbins add a LOT of weight.

Seconded on the Mazda CX-90. Plenty spacious and still decent to drive. Mazda’s infotainment is kind of ass, but that’s what Apple Carplay and Android auto are for. 

Okay, now how about the most fuel efficient NON hybrids. The Mazda CX-5 does 31MPG on the highway, which is pretty good for a 2.5L engine with an old-school 6 speed auto. 

True. My mom has a Kia Sportage PHEV, and she fills up the tank like once a month.

What I want to know is how that absolute diarrhea of a human being out of the greys, and how do we put them back?

A Lucid or Taycan is the LOGICAL choice, but if I had “fuck it” money, I’d buy a Polestar 1 in a HEARTBEAT. One of the most gorgeous cars of the last decade. 

I’ve seen a couple of these in person, and each time they were getting MOBBED by people wanting to know what it was. They’re gorgeous and striking and aren’t mistaken for any thing else, even by the normies. 

This is a bit of a ripoff TBH. They’re charging $70k for a bunch of bolt-ons, and do almost NOTHING to the suspension or brakes. They start off with a BASE Mustang GT, no performance pack. The supercharger is an off-the-shelf Whipple unit that you can get installed on any new Mustang at the dealer. All they do to the…

Oh fuck, I forgot about that guy. Such a tremendous asshole. 

Since crossovers are still massively outselling their hatchback counterparts, something like the C-HR would sell better than a straight Yaris. 

I’ll admit I have no idea how good (or not) the factory system sounds. All I know is that music sounds like shit over old bluetooth connections, no matter how good the system actually is. 

Get the nicest Lexus CT200h you can find, and save a boatload of money. Take some of that saved money and upgrade the speakers if the stereo is not up to snuff. I’d recommend getting a bluetooth adapter that can connect to the AUX port (I have this one, been going strong for 4 years https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0…

There’s still Willow Springs and Chuckwalla Valley Raceway. Both a little out of the way, though. I don’t count Thermal, since that’s completely inaccessible to the public without buying a multi-million dollar house

If they had made a crossover version of the new Integra (like the CR-V is to the Civic), then that would’ve made sense. Then they could make a hot version with the Type-R engine and AWD to go up against the turbocharged Mazda CX-5. They would need an automatic transmission that can handle the torque though.