Near Road America or another racetrack by chance? Could explain seeing 95. 

With you saying this I am recalling your point about Rev limiter settings being a thing. Either way, if you have to shift *after* redline to stay in high lift territory that just seems counterintuitive to how it should be... Obviously smart for Lotus to lower the change over RPM to compensate.

I believe it is around a $2k option to special order a car from this color palate and to your point there are a few in here that are more shades of gray than color. However the majority are great colors even if “muted” or darker tones. GTI is as playful as it is serious, but also a lot of people can find better ways…

No worries and agree it’s likely emissions. The reason I mentioned fuel quality is it seems around the 90s/00s there would be some slight compression differences in these engines when compared between markets as well (B18C in the Integra Type R was 10.6 vs. 11.1, USDM vs JDM/EUDM for example). Always figured this was…

I saw one of these on the East coast last May, either Green in the right column (top or second from the bottom). It was glorious to see someone pay extra for this. As I passed him I gave the: wave, point to car, chef’s kiss, thumbs up. Could see the pride on his face that random guy in Miata knew it was unique.

To clear some confusion on this, outside the US had 190 (EUR and JDM), USDM had 180 (not sure if fuel quality or emissions-based reasoning)

I always found it odd that they didn’t make a Celica to compete with the Integra GS-R, Prelude Si/VTEC offerings. Understandable if it was cost prohibitive to federalize the AWD GT-4, but couldn't even find a way to get 15hp more out of the 5S-FE? 

Question regarding the GT-S, I recall something about the gear spacing being too wide where you had to shift at (or after) redline to stay on the hot cam side of the VVTL-i and if you short shifted at all it really bogged in the change over. Any truth to this from your experience? Supposedly manic like GSR/Type S…

The Delta between these two government-funded paving projects had to be quite large with this having a higher quality surface (traction) to perform on, even if it’s 3/7th’s the length. The part about more throttle being applied earlier in this run makes sense as they need to make up for this lack of runway. Both runs…

Pittsburgh blue

Ultra Rare 1 of 1 in this color combo from the 1st trailer fire delivery. 

If this is some way to reduce flooding in the plains I’m all for it...but that’s a lot of infrastructure for occasion usage. I feel you are thinking about tapping into aquifers or other natural sources to feed arid areas and that seems...really messing with nature. 

The author is getting at the fact the Toyota 86 model name was already used in other markets (everywhere but the USDM since we had Scion). They just stuck with the other market name of 86 when USDM flipped to Toyota instead of sticking the Celica name on it for ”reasons”. This also allows them to continue making the…

The unfairness for poor people must be taken into consideration (you can offset with tax credits based on income), but not all old cars are less fuel efficient than new ones. This is about also driving the purchasing behaviors of everyone. Even poor people can make a decision on the vehicle they purchase *next* which…

Came for this reference and leaving satisfied

Sad news, the electric never went into production. Pour one out for the beautiful design

Always a soft spot for 5th generation Civic door handles. 

Dodge tried to provide for it’s clientele with the "secret" Dart stash spot

The coffers over at Big Dent® make sure that suggestions such as yours don't make it to the drawing boards.