Hey, everybody, remember when Ken Block used to take Rally seriously? Yeah, me neither.

No mention of Seven Samurai?! For shame sir....

(lifted from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sam…)

There is a little bit of an upfront hit from the NRE (Non recurring Engineering), you are mostly looking at the effects of a little something called, “The economies of scale”

I couldn’t agree more.... Professional Rally in the US is completely absent / broken... I think we have had one golden year in the past 5 where you had Higgins, Block, and L’Estage running a full schedule... FY is doing amazing things, all things considered but they (high end privateering) also do not have any real…

Stadium bans are a thing across the pond... I feel like this would be the proverbial cherry on the shit sundae this mouth breather is going to be enjoying over the next weeks....

I’ll give you the Supra and MR2 when very tastefully augmented. The NSX, yes. The Fairlady.... you can keep that car all day - never been a fan. I’m surprised you referenced it as it also has a bit of a catfish thing going on. We’ll just have to agree to disagree on the aesthetic appeal and curves of the GT-Four (and…

You just need to know where to look...

India to Germany is like Mexico to the USA. Bosch for example has *Armies* of Indians doing all the bullshit gruntwork that would be too expensive to do in Germany or that the Germans don’t want to do. While you are not wrong in your statements - I think you’d be surprised how much German “Engineering” is actually an…

“We are facing a long trudge and a lot of hard work, and will only be able to make progress in steps, and there will be setbacks.”

I came here to post this... To go further - we were often chided and called “Cowboys” when we dared to think or didn’t wait for the responsible engineer to come back from his 4 week vacation in the south of Spain to get his permission to do X, you know because the building was burning down and the customer was pissed.

The last two popes have really nailed the slow Dark Lord of the Sith transition....

Make no mistake... Spidey reboots were about keeping usage rights... oh and printing a few million bucks... because why wouldn’t you?!

I am predicting exactly 0% of their target market will pass on this because of a lack of an included Ripley

This entire scandal? is 100% lack of effort at the Communication, Architecture, and Engineering Levels. Why there is not some kind of firewall between the cloud and “critical” vehicle systems is beyond me... The solution is really quiet simple: If you decouple the cloud from the rest of vehicle network - you can treat…

I had never read the books growing up. After the movies came out, I started reading the first book... got to this whackjob Tom.... and I was confused. So, I googled him... figuring there was something special, 2 books later that would explain some of this... and nothing. at. all. I stopped reading. Eff Tom and Eff…

Doug - You’d be surprised how many *non-car* people work in the technical sector of auto industry or a support system of the auto industry (eg: service department). You would think that working in the bleeding edge (sic) of the Hybrid / Battery world would support some car people but only 2 or 3 out of hundreds were…

Such as? Not baiting, genuinely curious...

Oof.... Oberon hasn’t been good... going on a decade now.... And it used to be sooo good... Its completely filter (its almost completely clear now) and bro’d down to be more accessible to the Frat crowd. Please considered the alternative:

Please, Detroit and Kwame see’s nothing wrong with that line of logic. Dude would still probably get re-elected.

This is pretty sweet and all... but I'm curious as to what all this firepower is needed for... Is it just to maintain the perception that the current Imprezza platform is rally capable and keeps the fanboys re-upping?