I have to say, I was on the fence about this car when I saw the press photos this morning. Well, at the show today I got my chance to step up and look at it in person.

I would say that the travel and the firmness are independent - it definitely has lots of body roll built in. But the damping is definitely on the firm side, even if there’s lots of travel. I think the excessive body roll was explained as being Mazda’s way of keeping the car “safe” at the limit, so that it was obvious…

I’ve had my ND Club a few days now and put around 300 miles on it. I’m averaging 30-32MPG combined without even really trying. Probably would go down a lot in more stop-and-go traffic, but I haven’t been taking it easy on the throttle or anything. It can do 35-37MPG at 70MPH with the top up without much trouble, too,…

Depends on your local roads, I guess. I have an ND Club and the Bilsteins are pretty firm at speed on the highway, though still a far cry from hardcore sports cars without adaptive damping. I did test drive an ND auto Club (no Bilsteins or shock tower brace) and it was definitely a bit softer. Not sure I’d want that,…

I got my ND Club three days ago, and the seats are comfy as fuck. And I am a big dude (6’1 and fat). Heater and A/C work great, stereo with headrest speakers is totally usable at speed with the top down. Top itself is stupid-easy to take up and down at a red light. I’m averaging 30-32MPG so far, and I’m not being…

It’s adorable to watch people try to “LALALALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU THIS GAME IS BEAUTIFUL” over this whole thing. The only aspect I think worth giving Bethesda credit for in terms of truly groundbreaking graphics in F4 is the character creation system. They deserve all the praise in the world for it, and you can tell…

The 1990s had their moments.

Motor racing in general is a declining spectator sport in the world’s largest Western economies, isn’t it? Nascar attendance is down. IndyCar is basically a walking corpse. F1 never had much of a chance in America in this environment. United SportsCar is the only one with any signs of life, but there’s consensus that…

The Man With The Wooden Mustache: The Cadillac XT5 Story

starred for gotdamned, gotdammit.

I have... feelings about this steering wheel. I don’t know what those feelings are, exactly, BUT I’M KEEPING MY EYE ON YOU, ODD WOOD-TRIMMED SPOKES.

Right? This car is a smile on wheels. Too bad the seating position is absolutely hateful and the quality of the interior is on par with a nice porta-potty.

I really find the economic defensibility of pirating ridiculous. It’s silly and completely avoids the reason most (note, not all) people pirate: because they don’t want to or cannot afford to pay for something.

*Note: those who did not laugh were blindfolded. Or blind.

There is literally no reason to believe this car will come to America. Let alone that it would even pass crash tests here. I'm really not sure why anyone is trying to raise hopes on this.

I’d prefer if we could relegate the buttons you’ll use once a month to a touchscreen and keep the ones you’re using every single day. I’m certainly not saying kill all the buttons, and I think Tesla’s approach is equally silly and convoluted, it’s just at the opposite end of the spectrum compared to Porsche. Porsche…

Safety-schmafety. Look at all that space for manipulating holocubes!

Oh, that explains the $6000 markup quite well. They should call it the Macan OCD.

Is everyone in the Mercedes-Benz concept department on drugs? It seems like they are.

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