The UP is secretly just more Wisconsin.

Per the airbag, that one’s not so early. The photos from above would match up more with an S2/S3 dash (and maybe center console?).

There’s actually a slight difference - taps and dies have lead-ins so that you can start from an unthreaded rod/hole, while the cleanout kits specifically do not. You’re only able to use them on parts which already have some semblance of threading, which makes it a lot harder to break them.

My response was roughly:

He’s not looking at the ending. The back end of Rossi’s car starts to slide out over a car length before the stripes.

In theory, I don’t fault Rossi for going for the gap. I fault Rossi for sliding sideways out of the gap, into the other driver.

The Boxster Spyder (at least the previous version) is a specific high-performance Boxster variant. I think it was basically a Boxster GTS on steroids with some bonus light-weighting.

I’d really love to see a time-lapse of the setup for the show floor, because compared to that, moving the vehicles into place is cake. At one point standing in the Toyota section I spent a while looking up and admiring the rows upon rows of movers. I assume each booth gets to totally specify and control its own rig,…

I thought all the ones that made it over to the US were AWD? I know they offered RWD, didn’t know they offered it outside Europe.

Um, no. Alfa Romeo as a brand is starting from very little, and the progress they’ve made is impressive, but it’s essentially an established company (FCA) launching a new brand, not a company starting from nothing like Tesla.

Not if you don’t make back your investments and development cost. That said, getting a sixth of the 3-series volume for the year actually isn’t bad given that it’s their first year (and especially if that’s the full year, since they weren’t selling Giulias last January).

I’m glad you took the time to write this, and I’m glad I took the time to read it. It’s too easy to forget that there are people in every auto company that make great decisions, not just the few we hear about most. It’s hard to argue that the rotary and the Miata aren’t two of Mazda’s defining features.

You had my heart going for a second there when I first opened it and saw the price. But to my understanding, there’s a number of significant differences from the early years of Gallardo to the post-facelift models, and the latter are strongly preferable.

Different track widths doesn’t make it impossible - you just need to KNOW your front and rear track - if they’re different, the string is a little closer to (usually the rear) wheels, by a measured amount. As far as toe, because you generally set the string distance from the wheel center at front and rear when you’re…

Yes, so this could essentially be increasing the standard deduction.

So balance it out with an overall tax rate decrease for the lowest bracket. Or institute some kind of gas tax credit if your household income is below $X. Decreasing the progressiveness of our taxation scheme is a bad thing ... but it’s not like gas tax and the EV credit are the only things to play with here.

I had actually assumed it was a 981, which can fit a pretty sizable flat six, but I went back and looked, and you’re right, 987. Which means either this is a VERY old/long in development mule, or there’s some other reason (maybe load capacity or similar as you note).

So, selling cars under recall is bad, but only if the recall can actually be performed. Particularly with Takata recalls, many can’t be right now, and I don’t think CarMax should be required to hold onto them until parts become available (as long as they notify the new owners, anyway).

I’ve been thinking “H3" every time I see a JKU for years, so it’s not just you.

Uh, I think that’s a stretched definition of “working”, since my understanding was that pressing the gas pedal any more than lightly would cause the rest of the driveline past the engine to whimper and shatter into a million pieces.