I have a vested interest in this article. I used to drag race my 4th Gen Firebird Formula years ago (heads/cam/nitrous car, caged, 12-bolt, 6-speed car) and auto-x’ed it before. Then it became a never finished project car. Had a BMW 335i for years but they aren’t great road course cars (handle well, but the heat gets…

My dream car. Even more so than cars costing several times as much. I’m anti-big wings but I would do the 7k wing kit anyway as they look right on the Atom.

“Plans”

The only reason the C8 is on the lots for even 13 days is because all of them that aren’t pre-sold orders are being listed for 10-30k over MSRP. List them at MSRP and that number would be 1 day or less.

I own a Vette (modded C6Z). You really have two types of owners, the Boomers (and wannabe Boomers) and then the rest. Those Boomers suck, and suck badly - they also represent a lot of the owners.

As for the C8, your hate makes a lot less sense, as it is really bringing in a lot of new buyers that were not into the…

“Ohio Residents Are Still Hoping For Lordstown Motors To Succeed”

I’m an Ohio resident, and have been my entire life.  I don’t care if they succeed or not.  If they do, great.  If not, ehh.  

How is this even a discussion. There have been numerous studies showing that backing in is safer. Many companies with fleets require it. Back when I used to manage a training department for an ISP, this was pretty much the first thing covered during new-hire training.

Bottom dollar was a good 3-5 years ago.  Only going up since.

You are comparing a 996.1 to a 996.2, autotragic vs cab.  A 996.2 has a number of updates (and much nicer top), and the manuals bring in a lot more money.  

Anyone voting ND has no idea what these cars are selling for now. The IMS not being done is a detractor, as is being a cab. But it is a manual car and the Aero kit cars always bring in more money (typically a couple thousand more than an equal non-aero car). The value of these has been on the rise.

I fully regret not…

Jason Torchinsky making another anti-Tesla article? Say it ain’t so.

How about leaving these kind of articles to a writer that doesn’t have a very obvious axe to grind?

That’s not a Brodozer.

Terragator. My father has been the manager of a grain elevator forever, and crop spraying is one of their services. I’ve rode in these as a kid a number of times, including a few parades.

They will do about 35MPH if I recall correctly...I’ll tell you what, cares get the heck out of the way quickly when driving on the…

Excluding the 1M of course.  That looks pretty good (and is stupid expensive - and not worth the money - today).

“The specs are not too bad”

Really? 170HP @ 4000lbs, 9 second 0-60. The base 128i would smoke this thing. 100 mile range. The specs are kind of a joke.

Then let’s look at price. Not really $499/month; with down payment that’s $592.75/month. If I leased it, with tax, we are now at $634 month, assuming no other fees and…

And how do we actually know it was engaged?  Because the driver said so?  Was this actually verified by anyone?  That makes a big difference, as it has happened before where a driver claims it is engaged when it isn’t to try to skirt fault somehow.

Civil suits for what? No one was in the vehicles. As long as his insurance covered the damages for them, I’m not sure what they would get out of it.

Not that they can’t try to sue, but if this gets thrown out of court, I can’t imagine any of those making it through.

No manual or DCT = hard pass.

And when did 368HP become a lot? My BMW I just sold with a tune made way more than that in a lighter car; it was pretty peppy but nothing all that fast, which is partly why I replaced it.

1st Gear: That’s a good thing for some of the motors. Many owners disable AFM on their L82/L86 (and older). The cheap/easy way is to use a Range AFM bypass unit. The better way is to program it out (with the best digging into the motor and removing all of it).

Now if it is impacting the L84 (5.3L with DFM), that’s a…

Uhh, Amazon upped their minimum wage to $15 back in 2018. That same $15 that keeps getting pushed around as being the new magic, fix-it number. How is it fair to lump them in?