It’s weird, but if that thing were powered by internal combustion the proportions would still work. I think that’s the point. I think the topic is “what weird design can you do that would previously have been impossible due to the architecture of a normal powertrain?”

Play any racing game with AI in the past couple of decades all the way up to today. It’s a fully controlled environment with a specific purpose and they can’t even get it *Good* there.

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I disagree on both counts but I definitely won’t argue that take for either haha. To each their own. 

Are you confusing the Bronco Sport and Bronco, or.....?

Look you’re not wrong. That’s exactly what’s happening. No, this is not the same as a simply exploitative minimum wage or something.

I think the argument is more that if it’s something you’re able to do as a full time job and it’s benefitting the company for you to do so, then they should have to treat it as a full time job and all that implies regarding benefits/protections, via regulation.

From what I’ve experienced, it’s a bit of a mix. Some can go fully off, some are every start, some are never/fuse pull.

I think I read in another thread that there were some tuning tweaks to the manual to get away from some of the issues the early iterations had, but not like an actual transmission change like the Mustang Mach 1 not using the MT-82, no.

If you’re keeping them stock, the ND2 is a massive driving improvement, more so for the change to the power/torque curves rather than increasing peak power. It’s just a better driving experience. But modding it, per how it usually goes yes, less of an argument lol.

A vehicle of that caliber, retaining most components for the street, and adding in all of the things you need to get it to be road legal & nice... even if there’s quite a bit of upcharge, the actual cost to build this is likely pretty significant.

Now granted, I expect that there IS quite a bit of upcharge, but…

Impossible, no. It’s kinda dependent on how the anti-stall & auto shutoff systems are implemented - for example, you have some that won’t engage if the clutch is depressed at a stop, but some will engage regardless of clutch position. 

The ST & RS have an anti-stall feature that was designed so you can just left foot in only in stop/go traffic, so there’s a bit of electronic trickery aiding in that. 

Yes you can turn off auto rev-matching

Haha yeah this is bringing back some memories of various course designer bias over the years.

Just for a little extra insight regarding brake fluid, and why even a performance street car usually needs that swap for a full track day:

Haha oh I definitely can at least understand, but yeah in my 8 years working in motorsports, neither myself nor anyone I’ve talked to yet has been quite as passionate about them.

Overall I agree with what you laid out here, except for:

With Bristol, not really. It’s the second-smallest track they race at.

I don’t really disagree with your original point, though.

This is all very fair, and I even went back and looked up some of my favorite articles over the years and realized that the changes may have been much more recent than I remembered.