I think I would be ok with always-on taillights that were green when the car was in forward motion and turned red under braking. It would make it easy to see cars bunching up on the highway, especially at night.

I believe 5 pieces of patriotic flair is the bare minimum.  Are you OK with doing the bare minimum?  ;-)

I superglued the trailer tail light lens back together after I shattered it. No truck nuts or patriotic flair here.

You are forgetting that people in rural communities depend on STOL aircraft, and the operators can’t afford to update their aircraft to Turboprop. All the best STOL aircraft are older designs like the DC3...

‘plane owners are among the moneyed crowd”
Complete and utter bullshit. We’ve had to fight that idiotic myth since the 1903s.
Visit a local public GA airport, talk to pilots and owners then get back to us.
Once last point, where the hell do you think newly minted commercial pilots moving the airlines come from?
If you say…

You can’t economically upgrade these aircraft to a new type of engine. You can’t just swap any engine into a certificated aircraft. You can only do an engine swap if you get a supplemental type certificate from the FAA. This would cost millions of dollars for each variant of each type of aircraft.

I mean it is as simple as banning it.  Teams will adapt, no matter what the race series.

Another nail in the coffin of tracks, then. Certainly it makes it easier for residents groups to block new ones and is a stick for them to bash existing ones with. Leaded fuel just needs to die.

If it wasn’t clean, someone else would slam the poster for not following-through with the presentation. I see your point, though. 

“ If it hits 60mph in under 20 seconds it’s quick enough for traffic and let’s face it - the vast majority of your time in your car, you’re in traffic.”

I had a 2001 525 before my 850. Bought it from a guy who had maintained it and whose teen son did not want to drive it. Put 50K miles on it and refreshed the entire cooling system. My buddy still has it at 208K miles. This one is a touch overpriced but a good deal. Rear subframe bushings are a known failure point also…

It is one thing to be a good boy in a lesser car, it is a whole different thing if you are actually faster on track. IF (big if) Lewis has a bad start next year, lets say a Red Bull crashes into him then an engine blows. If George has a big points lead will he be willing to let Lewis pass him?

While it’s not completely pointless, I’m betting it’s somewhat negligible. There’s a big difference between a fill-in driver and a season-long appointment. It may be as simple as making some adjustments during his custom seat fitting and moving the pedal pivot points slightly further up the nose.

Other parties can include managers/agents, licensing/advertising contracts, etc. Its the driver who makes the decision, but there are other parties that may agree/disagree with it and need to negotiate their piece including up-to termination of their own advertising with that athlete.

What’s riskier? Trusting your kid with a random Uber driver or an unvaccinated, masked, bus driver?

400 miles for $25k new.

No. 

First let me say this: you are technically correct, which as we all know is the best kind of correct.

But isn’t that the whole point of the GTI - it’s supposed to be a compromise car that does a whole bunch of things really well, but excels at nothing. It’s intended to be for a car enthusiast who has one parking spot, needs something versatile and practical, but also wants a bit of performance.

I thought that for a long time. But lately have been itching to replace my ISF and cross shopping F80, C63, etc. Stumbled on a Tesla3 performance destroying them all(even the Alfa in the corners) and that’s before the current upgrades available now. It handles well enough, is a rocket with usable awd, and has enough…