We put sex offenders in a permanent sex offender registry and restrict their lives quite significantly. I say we create a “drunk driver” registry and have a special rider which requires them to blow a Breathalyzer to drive maybe for 10 years. You get a new license, make it red or some other noticeable color. When you…

Agreed. It’s an easy 10-12K. There are plenty of people who like the idea of being seen in an old car. 

From the concrete color, I suspect this was already patched up some time in the past. I think they opened it up at some time and removed a bunch of the rebar then patched it back up minus the missing rebar. 

Best choice would be a late ‘90's Honda.  Easiest to mod. Easiest to engine swap. Best suspension. The Honda’s from ‘00 on up have worse suspensions. Particularly the RSX and EP3's have terrible suspensions for track use.  Accords from the 00's though still have A-arm/multilink rears.   I’ve toyed with the idea of…

Many events don’t bother with the broom stick test as long as the hard top is secured to the car. I’d suggest putting the hard top back on. I mean there’s no broom stick test for cars with a roof. Many a time my helmet brushed against the headliner in my track cars.

The way this story is written makes little sense. Does that mean it’s open season on your co-workers? I doubt any laws says that. I suspect they’ve mixing up criminal with civil liability.

It does make you wonder if he’s family of the owner or something. Another affluent kid getting away with murder. 

You have to wonder if this system will survive road testing with normal people. Turning up the ratio seems like recipe for accidents. 

This was my first reaction too. I’ve never seen a force feedback wheel that was even close to feeling real. 

That’s Lexus and “performance” MO. They make something with pseudo performance but don’t really understand how to make an engaging car. Either too heavy, or too many nannies or not enough power.

I know some Tesla owners too. They’re affluent. Typically home owners with family incomes well over $100,000 a year.

I’m talking about average new car buyers, of which can afford a Model 3, because it is priced at the average new car price.

The Model 3 starts at $47k. The average new car in the US is $46k. Being $1k over average does not make it a toy for the affluent.

GM’s expanded recall now covers all 142,000 of the two Bolt models sold since 2017—including the 2022 models sitting on showroom lots—because the EVs could catch fire. It’s now waiting for new battery packs that resolve a series of manufacturing defects.

The ones I saw seemed to use direct electrical assist on the pedal. I could understand using these boosters on EV’s and Hybrids because their might not be any engine vacuum but wasn’t sure why honda seemed to switch to them across the board. Packaging maybe.

The fact that Tesla has been mainstream since 2012,

Most EV’s are Teslas and even the ones that aren’t are having early adopter woes too like batteries that catch on fire when the car is charged. I’m just thanking all the people who go through these troubles. Eventually, it’ll get sorted out and EV’s will become mainstream.

I’m pretty sure it’s low tension rings.  The run the lowest tension rings they think they can get away with because it reduces internal friction. Same thing happened to Subarus. 

So I said fuck that and now I’m stuck buying $40 five quart bottles of Mobil 1 High Mileage every month or so to keep the car topped up while I figure out what my next steps are.

Teslas use electrical assist master cylinders these days. So do Accords, no more vacuum boosters.  I’ve wondered what their failure modes are?