I was quite literally thinking this very thing about 3 days ago. I recent;y went from the uber luxobarge Genesis R-Spec to a Fiat 500 Abarth. From all leather wrapped everything, every possible toy you can think of to something that barely has padding on the armrests. And you know what? The Abarth is better. It’s…

Is that the one with the buttons and the whining and the magic?

I hear what you’re saying, but it’s not all peaches and beers in the “dude” section, either. I get stereotyped everywhere I go, depending on the crowd. I think the saddest part is that, as a guy, I have the luxury to shrug it off with no ill effects. It seems to not work so well that way for the women, I suppose. …

Part of this makes me extremely sad, but that last part made me laugh...

My personal experience is that the insurance on a C5 Z06 is kinda stupid cheap. Check it out, it’s really fantastic.

I don’t know, the Z might shake it off for being previously towed by a *scoff* Miata!

I’d bet so. I had a tow hitch and a tire/tool trailer, no problemo!

I used one as a DD for 5 years. Road trips, commuting, tracking. It’s the everything car if you have no kids.

Why does C5 Z06, possibly the greatest car made in the last 20 years, not ever get a proper mention?

That makes sense, that you are looking at it from reconstruction. My experience is super- and hyper-sonic impact, admittedly, where survivability of critical components is measured in forces of acceleration, which is where all the damage occurs. Also, at times, liquification and vaporization of, lets say, things is…

No, you were right about that, totally.

I guess the breakdown is where the damage occurs to the human inside. It’s literally the force of deceleration from being restrained or impacted by something moving at a different velocity vector.

Again, I posit that the delta-v will be equivalent for both vehicles. They will both go from V0 to V1, and V1 will be 0. You’re argument is that the lighter vehicle will experience a larger delta-v, or change in velocity. It won’t, unless it’s going faster than the heavier vehicle, but that’s not relevant to the…

I see. My advice, don’t do that. Own that. There’s keeping it simple, and there’s coddling people. Give them the business!

Factory sequential manual would have been amazing.

Remember that, while your statement is technically true, you are forgetting that E_k is proportional to mv^2. You’re approaching it backwards. In a crash, at least most I’ve seen or been in, the delta-t for the vehicles going from travel speed to something either very slow or 0 is pretty equivalent. This assumes a…

Wait....what?! A lighter car going from 60 to 0 does NOT experience a higher delta-v than a heavier car going from....60 to 0. They both have a delta-v, or change in velocity, of -60 mph. I think that you mean delta-a, since there will be a significant difference in k sub e to consider from the delta-m between the…

My Abarth is too big?!?!?

Oh, I have more faith in $kay than you do. I bet she could do it. Ok, $kaycog, go!

Hey Stef. Yeah, you got something under one of your nails. No, that one over there. Yeah.