This is a good ish idea for the same reason tire shops will recommend putting the new tires on the back rather than front if you are only buying two tires. Better traction in rear means the rear is less likely to lose traction before the front in a low-traction environment (like driving in snow). Generally, it’s…

Most FWD cars have like 70/30 weight distribution. Low load on the rear wheels can result in the rear wheels losing traction before the front in a low traction environment. This isn’t misguided. 

DT: “I don’t want to rust out something that’s worth money”

Track only vehicles and road cars have different design requirements. They’re used in different ways and crash in different ways. “Designing to meet the minimum of gov’t testing” is just a different way of saying “designing to be safe in the overwhelming majority of crashes that are likely to occur”. 

Damn, where was the chassis? I totally missed it. The full body car looked pretty cool. I’m excited for these to be out on track, and more excited for them to hit RacingJunk in a few years.

Just be glad he didn’t say 850i

11k is a good price for an unmolested GT. However, this is someone else’s project. However, all MGBs are someone else’s project. NP.

They don’t crash very well. I have a few Mk1s and they’re not exactly confidence inspiring in modern traffic. However, Citis should be imported. There’s already quite a few in the US. They’re not exactly like the US market German imports or the domestic production ones.

I mean, for car spotting, any old movie is good

So you agree that it’s bad as a car movie?

Yeah, it’s honestly a super safe road when you follow the speed limit and traffic is low. However.... when it’s nice out, it’s full of goons (both on bike and in car) going way too fast and tourists going way too slow (turn scary!). I’ve been to the area for driving trips with friends, and honestly I don’t like to…

That would be a valid argument if Bullitt were known for being a slice of life movie or a cop movie. People go out of their way to watch those. But it isn’t, it’s known first and foremost for the chase scene, and is thus a “car movie”, which it really isn’t, and that’s why I think it sucks. If you were at a restaurant…

I am NOT sitting through 102 minutes of police procedural for 11 minutes of car chase ever again. Bullitt sucks.

You know there’s skilled workers employed in other industries too, right? All the people who got paid as a result of this launch were going to get paid anyways. Soyuz vehicles are operated exclusively by Roscosmos, a state corporation funded and owned by Russia. Literally all this accomplishes is subsidizing the…

You aren’t wrong, but there are also less wasteful industries which also employ people. 

Yeah but didn’t that work really well?

So it’s a tribute to the road version of a race version of a road car. I wonder if anyone will make a racecar out of one?

In daytime you can see what side of the car the light is on. At night, the CHMSL gives you a reference to which side it’s on. This is a non issue.

I’m just comparing what Tesla and BMW interiors look like. Tesla interiors are garbage, it’s really not a high hurdle to jump.

I mean, it shouldn’t be?