Well, didn't the head of Honda say they wanted to build character back into their cars? I was reeeeaalllly curious about that CVT. The auto trans in the last gen civic really hit a nerve when accelerating off the line and executing the 1-2 shift. On another note, the interior of this one looks way better than the old…

Awesome.

That’s a nice flare you got there. I find that, unless you’re using a quality flaring tool, I scrap so many flares as they never come out right. Sadly, sometimes the ones they rent you are the cheap ones and they really blow. oh yeah, I also can’t count how many times I put the nut on After the flare. grr.

They should be replaced by those notes for double parkers instead.

And then there’s Canadian Auto Insurance. And if that’s not bad enough, there’s Canadian Moto Insurance. FML. Back in my day, driving a $2000 third gen F-Body at around 19 yrs old cost me $450/month with not a single ticket or violation. If you're under 30 and want a supersport (motorcycle) you’ll pay more than the…

You know, I feel like I’m being all diligent and shit with my money. Not taking out loans I feel I can’t “afford”. And everyone around me is ignorantly loading themselves up with debt. Part of me feels there will be a sweet justice when all those people are broke and I get to wag my finger saying “I told you so!”.…

Thats ok, because we'll just bail out the banks. Again. And the CEO's will "retire" with the fattest cheques ever written. Its almost like they're aiming for a bailout on purpose cause they're so confident they'll get bailed out. I mean, the system technically does need them. but man, what a fucked up system.

It looks clean. But, I feel its only a nice price if you happen to be that one strange dude in the market for exactly this. Otherwise your money goes way father elsewhere.

I wonder how much this cost new, and then I wonder how the new owners felt having been recently separated with thousands of hard earned dollars only to be greeting by despair every morning. The sad reality that is their life manifesting itself in mechanical apathy on their driveway.

Every teal car I can think of was a shitbox. I hate teal cause I've associated it with run down cavaliers and riced out del-slows. Nope Nope Nope, fuck Teal.

Those 911R Seats Tho....... And then there’s that weird blue stuff in the ‘Vette. I'd still pick the vette too but damn, talk about a stark contrast.

1 Square Meter per second? at peak power I'm not too surprised. but that's quite the air pump.

2.5 Mill for a Mustang??! Sounds like an expensive option to crash your way out of cars & coffee.

Yep, pretty stupid. I agree. But, I must concede that most of the fun things in life are pretty stupid. I mean, even racing is pretty stupid if you think about it. But damn its fun. I hope at least some trickle-down tech comes from this. I would otherwise be fine with an example in unrestrained engineering. But I know…

That doesn’t make the decision any less stupid..

WOOOOO TURBO MIATA

Exceptionally more dangerous when you consider how ubiquitous guns are. That’s before we point out that this is in Texas, of all states.

Exciting!!! I find myself drawn to british products - can’t explain why. Land Rover, Jag, Triumph, McLaren.... BUT, they break like.. lots. If this jag doesn’t break a lot, and in fantastically expensive ways, I may just be in the market!

All it takes is 1 accountant to send out a note to an army of engineering managers saying “don’t spend more than X on Y” and then it all flows downhill. however, as we discuss this its interesting to consider that what the financial side does is really try and analyze the markets demand, as determined by every vote…

Bean counter is slang, but we have to mutually define it if we’re going to discuss it. I went to google and input “Define: Bean Counter”. Would you agree that’s a reasonable way to define it via third party? Besides, if the high level engineer is being given limits by finance - then we haven’t accomplished anything…