At best it seems like a hoax, at worst it's an attempted fraud. And a fraud that might net you a substantial amount of money.

“Imagine how we will look back on driving your own car in 10-15 years from now.”

Hundreds of ksi would be in the GPa range of pressure, so that would explain the name.

I suspect you're right, if the driver had actually braked. Seems like they were not paying nearly enough attention to the road in front.

Exactly. They can’t unlearn how to make things fast. It’s part of the reason that even with formula changes, the top teams are likely to stay at the top - they have built up institutional knowledge about how to build a fast car which applies fairly generally.

The short answer is yes - they’ve been slowed down periodically for a long time now by the governing body. It hasn’t stopped them from still getting faster and faster:

There’s an interesting little video on this that I think was featured on Jalopnik a while ago, looking at the evolution of F1 laptimes. They keep managing to get faster (eventually), even with all the changes made to slow them down:

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Climb stairs, like those funny sack trucks.

That is pretty damn accurate. No need to build prison walls when most people who escaped would just die in the bush.

I mean, I wear glasses, but that doesn’t really seem salient.

As an aside, the A80 was really only popularly known in its TT guise, usually with those two turbos exchanged for a single the size of a watermelon tuned to either make 4 figures on a dyno or as a drag monster. It was pretty much ignored before F&F made it desirable.

I wonder whether the reaction would have been more positive if this Integra was a replacement for the Civic coupe instead?

I think the issue is that every Honda was reasonably sharp when the last Integra was around. The DC2 and the DC5 didn’t look that different to their contemporary Civics and Accords, just a little sleeker. But it’s been gone for the past 15-odd years, and in the meantime the rest of the Honda lineup got progressively…

The Z4 is close. They’re both built on a JV platform. The other two are solely BMW.

Having driven both, the sportiness was evident - a lot of that was driving position. I suppose the Integra was more luxurious because it had power windows and alloy wheels, but it was not a luxurious car.

Clearly the I6 wasn’t irrelevant:

The Integra was never a luxury car, it was a sleeker, more sporting version of the Civic. Granted, the current Civic is not as lithe as the versions of 15-30 years ago. But this is a frumpy, fussy, overstyled mess of a design. It’s probably going to drive quite well because it’s based on the Civic, but it offers…

The styling is so overwrought...

I think a lot of people know, but when you revive an iconic nameplate, surely you’re doing it to conjure memories of the original. And when the new one doesn’t reference the things the made the original iconic, people get annoyed. Same as Chevy Blazer fans were pissed when the new one launched. Same as Supra fans were…