I used ‘plain’ instead of ‘plane’ throughout that comment and now I’m severely ashamed.

“Then you’ve got Caymans and whatnot where the engine is forward of the front axles but behind the driver”

How about beneath the front seats’ occupants’ buttocks?

Chevy Cheetah. It’s the perfect example

The weight is always placed on the axels, bruh.

I love the look on people’s faces when I say the Vette is mid-engine. And then the face they make while I’m trying to explain it is priceless.

Or, you could be a normal person, and understand that mid-engine means “between the axles.” It has absolutely no bearing whether the engine is in front or behind the driver. The weight is placed on the axles.

What’s a Car and Driver?

These people have all been fired.

You either accept the front mid-engine layout or you go old school and deny the theory of the mid-engine layout all together and every car is either front-engined or rear-engined.

Mercedes did it better.

Except that was on a section with a left hand curve for him where he could come up on someone broken down on that shoulder, and there are vehicles in the two traffic lanes.

I get your point, but those other stories have been written. It’s not high fiction, but it was fun, and that’s what I liked about it.

In fairness, coming up with a great idea is 80% of the battle in writing. His prose can be clumsy sometimes, but he tapped into such a rich vein of nostalgia with his dystopian universe that his prosaic strength mattered surprisingly little. Sort of like Dan Brown with his bite-sized chapters and Da Vincian…

It was enjoyable and he was definitely better at world building than characters. The only real problem I had was the 3rd act personally. Everything else was fun enough and made enough sense that I let it pass. But the whole infiltration and planting of a virus or whatever just felt like, “oh shit, I have to end this…

I liked the world. The story was less compelling. The writing style was...problematic.

I would describe Ready Player One as great in spite of its author’s limited writing ability.

I had some issues, too, but the overall experience was enjoyable.

I have the Blackvue DR650S-2CH.