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I'm going to the parking lot to do donuts for the rest of my lunch hour if anyone needs me.

God, they'll complain about the plastics in anything.

That artwork makes me think of a couple early arcade top-down scrolling racing games where you jumped over opponents:

What is the Internet going to do when they don't have live axles to kick around anymore?

I think it would look better with the Durango grill. The grill pictured for the Charger (and the Dart's) is like three grills mashed together without any consideration for how they tie together other than paint them black so hopefully no one will be able to tell. You've got eggcrate below the bumper and eggcrate above

Yeah, there's way too much unbroken surface of sheet metal on the current models, especially in the rear. Looks like they've addressed that with a stronger crease down the side on the new ones - big improvement to my eyes.

That grill is hideous. Did they forget to attach part of the bumper when they were setting up of the show? That is going to turn off Camry buyers.

People pull over to talk on the phone or text? That's a thing that happens?

Argh, I hate them - they come up on a big rig at 85 miles an hour but then when they start passing it they slow down to the truck's velocity + 0.1 MPH

What is the critical width between the wheel wells? I assume less than 48".

I think Audi is looking at redlights all wrong - a redlight is just an opportunity to rev-match downshift and listen to glorious closed-throttle backfire burbles followed by another opportunity to accelerate. Do we really want to live in a world without downshifts and acceleration?

That is literally 100% exactly what happens.

I was hoping to see more hands free operation - like, navigating with steering wheel control vs poking the screen.

Not at all. A 2-speed gear box could wave a wider range of ratios than a CVT. The CVT can offer more ratios within that range but it still has a limit to how high and how low it can go. I think it's usually described as "spread" though.

Yeah, this is what I want too. Some sort of standard where the car or aftermarket stereo offers up a universal interface - inputs and outputs your device can make use of. Your car tells your phone "hey, I have a full color screen of this size, I've got volume/mute and track controls and 6 favorites buttons, I've got 4

The difference in MPGs still wouldn't be enough to matter. Either inflation means that $10/gal is as normal as $3~$4 is now so who cares(everything cost 3x as much as it does now but our salaries are 3x as much too), or gas is so expensive relative to everything else (like, it jumps to $10/gal next week) that I can't

Same as the Mach1 actually and not the GT. The GTs got the 2V engines while the Mach1 and Maurader got a 4V motor. The Mach1/Maurader engine was slightly different then the previous Cobra's non-supercharged 4V 4.6L. The Mach1 motors were actually slightly different between the stick and automatics - sticks got a

Will there be shotguns? That is all I need to know.

Because in some situations (like, steady state high speed cruising on the highway, or full throttle nearly all the time, like racing) it's more efficient to use the ICE output to directly power the wheels than it is to convert it to electricity and then back to rotational energy again - the two energy conversions cost

Yep, it was real. It came with a new K-member and lower control arms, a relocated Dakota steering rack, some various crossmembers, and headers for a LA small block. You were on your own for rear suspension but I guess they figured hardcore dragracers were going to be tubbing and fabbing up a rear end for whatever they