I agree that grid position should be based on qualifying...it’s far more fair than the sprint races. Of course, I dislike the sprint races altogether, partly for the qualifying issue but mostly because it just waters down the actual race. If I want to see two races per weekend, I’ll watch another type of racing in…

My SO had to buy a new car in June due to an idiot who turned left into her...and the shopping experience, with just a couple of exceptions, was really quite nice and easy. We’d go in, tell them the model and spec we were looking for, take it for a drive (only 1 salesperson went with us...at Mercedes), come back, tell…

Came to post this, but for gen2 VFR...can get fiberglass repros of the fairing outer panels (though I would prefer original style plastic) but the inner panels are non-existent...and never show up in salvage (these bikes run forever if cared for, so don’t get junked...and crashed ones are broken, always...plus, most…

I don’t get it...the only difference between wireless and wired charging is plugging the little cable into the phone. I still need a charger, one that is on a wire of some sort...so? I can totally see the convenience of a wireless charger in the car...but you need a new car for that, and it takes up storage space that…

Me, too. An accurate fuel gauge and a trip odometer and I’ll figure out my range (based on current driving/riding style) myself, thankyouverymuch. Actually, I do prefer a fuel gauge, but if given the choice, a trip odo that resets itself automatically when refueling would probably be enough (assumes tank is truly…

Hmmm....trying to figure out how long it will be until someone with a VAG-COM figures out how to change the light animation to spell out other things. All things considered, though, I’d rather have such a display on the BACK of the car...just in the interest of ‘communication’ with other drivers, of course.

“Nikita Mazepin Is Not Having Fun Out There”

“uncontrolled drift” I am SO stealing that...

I was on assignment in Louisville for almost a year, from May ‘99 - March ‘00, and after a month of turning in rental cars every week or two, I just held onto one for around 7 months...it was a brand new Oldsmobile Alero sedan with the 3.4 V6. It was a great car, for a rental...it was comfortable, handled surprisingly…

This is very interesting in one respect...MotoGP bikes used to be much more able to deal with bumpy/undulating track surfaces. Anyone who has been a long time subscriber to Cycle World magazine is familiar with Kevin Cameron and his column that dives deeply into engineering topics...he had several great columns on how…

The big ‘tell’ that this is not real for someone who has ridden a motorcycle is the field of view...no helmet allows that expansive a view. And before you say ‘open face’, bear in mind that with such a helmet you’d be wearing goggles (and that’s beside the fact that an open face helmet on a racebike is basically…

I’ve driven the XC40 Recharge, and my SO has an XC40 T5 R-Design, and I can say that they have a pretty darned good chassis...very fun to drive (for a CUV), good steering (as long as you turn off the ‘steers for you’ crap, which will make the car swerve all over on narrow curvy backroads where you tend to stray over…

Yes, yes...anyone interested in military aviation, or NASA flight testing, is well aware of the plethora of denigrating nicknames for this awesome plane...but none mentioned one of the most popular at the time of its inception: the “Missile With a Man In It”.

With all the ‘body’ talk, there is also ‘nobody’, though I think ‘no body’ is really quite obviously different, as it is somewhat specific (similar to ‘somebody’ and ‘some body’).

And where is the discussion of psychotherapists? If you look online for discussions of the difference between the two you list, ‘therapist’ or ‘psychotherapist’ is almost always mentioned...not here, for some reason.

I would love to see a 3/4 version of “Hard Drivin’” and “Race Drivin’”, but worry that it won’t be great...the force feedback was really very good, and kind of important to the operation of the game (which was so close to real vehicle handling that they had planned to use it for driver education).

To a certain extent, true...but I always make sure I have local admin rights on my machine. Not every company allows that, but when you work in IT yourself, you quite often need it...

It’s gotten to the point where even janky old Mavericks get $20k plus. Which sucks, because I have always wanted one to mess around with...now I have money and could possibly bargain a parking spot but no decent Mavs available for a realistic price.

Another vote here for Move Mouse...great little program that keeps Skype from going ‘Inactive x minutes’ (which used to happen to me all the time as I’d be reading a doc or analyzing a process flow). Also keeps the VPN from timing out, because logging back into that is a PITA. You can set it to automatically load on…

I’d say the biggest difference between Barrichello and Bottas is that Schumacher never, ever had to consider a “will he comply or won’t he” scenario with team orders...that has always been a concern for Hamilton with Bottas and Rosberg. Not that I like or support team orders, I’m just saying that it is a reality of…