Shit my old manual 911 is probably 0-60 in the upper 6 second range and that’s still way more fun than the 5.1s my dual-clutch Audi will do it in.

I’ll never own an ICE powered car with a missing pedal, but I also can see that the days of ICE powered cars are just about done.

Exactly. FCA customers don’t ask about manuals. The ones who would aren’t FCA customers anymore. This is why I went Subaru.

Forgot where I read this: “Would you rather ride to 60 in 5s, or *drive* there in 5.5?"

I’m one of those people Gastelu claims don’t exist. I’ve written dozens of letters over the years to car manufacturers pleading for manual transmissions, and pester every dealer I’ve ever been to about them. An automatic is an absolute deal-breaker for me. Every new car I’ve ever bought has been a manual, and will…

I buy new cars, and I won’t buy one without a manual.

This is a good take.

Footage of Tim Kuniskis fielding some “customer questions” ...

I buy new cars, and I won’t buy one without a manual.

So who’s Nissan going to sell Versas and Sentras and, well everything else to now?

Seriously, how many of us are reading this at work and can’t take 5-10 minutes to watch a video? I almost exclusively read this site while I am at work.

I won’t spoil the story for you

Neons get shit on way too much. They were cheap and plasticky, but dead reliable, more fun than anything in their class at the time, and could be had for the change in your couch cushions. 

Why’d you remind me?

4th gear

I’m no fan of Elon, but IIRC reading his objection isn’t to people receiving assistance through this, but the way the government is going about it.  e.g. these political football one time “stimulus” payments, etc. 

To be honest the best autonomy I think we will get is level 4 - at least in my lifetime (I’m 33) I know we all dream of summoning our car to drive us home from the pub or drop the kids to school, but all these fringe scenarios will make it impossible for full autonomy. If we all lived in cities and apartments and only…

This is just one of literally billions of weird edge cases that autonomous car boosters are currently pretending don’t exist. We can get to Level 4 autonomy without handling these problems, but I honestly think Level 5 will require something like genuine intelligence to make happen.

I used to go to this place in Atlanta, and if you know it, you know it. It’s called Jack’s Pizza and Wings, right there off Highland. It’s a dive bar that serves pizza and wings, and also super cheap beer. Back in 2009, they were still serving $1 pints of “Old 4th Ward” which I’m pretty sure was just Miller.

Are they killing them off globally? Or just in the US? Because at this point, Americans don’t deserve nice things anyway.