My BRZ has a pretty silly startup sequence thanks to my tune. The ECUTEK tune adds four switchable maps to the car, and I really didn’t need more than one, so I asked for a valet tune as the second one, and an anti-theft tune as the third. So if I’m parking my car for an extended period, or somewhere sketchy, I leave…

ZR1 over this any day at 2/3rds the price.

I actually like how this looks morethan the standard version. Perhaps this trim will attract those who didn’t see the regular AWD one as “SUV enough”

So you’re saying that BEV are actually way cleaner than the article is saying?

The CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, Twitter, and Neuralink now has significant influence over the very government entities that regulate or contract with his businesses. Has a bigger conflict of interest ever existed?

Teslas product is very stale and outdated and the guy at the top is a creep. He bought the US government, among many other reasons, so he can use it to promote himself and his business and to use available regulatory tools to promote his interests and businesses and to shield them from competition.

1st Gear: Last sales report, the decrease in California Tesla sales amounted to a 10% overall global sales reduction. That’s big. Regarding Tesla wanting to move more operations to Texas. Remember when he moved Tesla’s R&D, only to move it back within months? He couldn’t get enough people to make that move, nor…

No more than the spider-esque Alfa 4C original headlights.

Did all suburbans of that era have 4.11 gears? That thing could probably tow a 40' boat without overheating.

Top Gear demonstrated over a decade ago that a V8 M3 can get better MPG than a hybrid Prius. It’s all about how hard you make an engine work. A small engine working harder means worse mpg in the real world than a big engine barely doing any work at all. 

I bet it has to do more with turbo size. 

My buddy in college drove a chevy truck from the late 70's or early 80's. Not in a cool way- in a “your grandfathers truck with 350,000 miles has been sitting in our back yard since he died and it’s what you’ll take to college, and the family of rats under the seat are gratis” way.

Anyways, we all came back from summer…

Theyre probably coming from fort Dix or whatever that airforce base near us is. No way if they didnt know what they were would they not be obliterated immediately. There are just too many military bases around us for them not to be 100% sure what they are.

I saw them tonight, at least four. They make the oddest passes, they’ll come through low in one direction and then high the next. They have white, red, and green flashing lights. My old FPV gear and racing drones aren’t up to the task of catching them and taking photos, but I’m sorely tempted to invest in some digital…

Or they know what it is and they don’t want to tell you.  It’s probably us (the U.S.).

As someone in NJ that has had these fly over their homes several times, they are large. We can see planes in the sky landing at PHL airport frequently. We are close enough to Virtua Voorhees Hospital to see their helicopters in the sky. These are the size of a small vehicle (think Geo Metro) and propeller driven.

I…

I doubt the Iranian Mothership could hold three Chris Christies.

*sounds like bald eagles nuking the moon in the name of freedom and smells faintly of corn

I really really do not want my car to feel visceral,

... And yet at least around here in Caifornia I’ve seen maybe, maybe a handful of newer Corvettes. I don’t get it. Great looking car, great performance, great value. Yet everyone around here still generically buys their BMWs and Porsches.