I forgot to include the price; bikes are mind-numbingly cheap relative to their performance. The Nomad starts at $80k (per a visit I just took to their site), a new bike that’s every bit as fast will set you back a tenth of that.

This impetus of the world towards more and more automation of driving and less and less involvement of humans in the process is one of the big things pushing me to look into motorcycles. With two wheels, ABS only really became standard in the last 10 years, and it’s still an option in less expensive bikes. Automatic…

Ignorant people are going to ignorant and HP is an easy number to dick-wag without needing to understand anything. How fast you go is capped by your willingness far before it’s capped by your car’s capability.

Forgive me for being grumpy but why is Mazda even IN racing right now? They won’t put a stick with the 2.5L turbo; Mazdaspeed models are “difficult”, i.e. not going to happen for the foreseeable future ; near as I know they gave up the Skyactiv-D; RX models have been nothing but vaporware since the RX-8 disappeared...…

Not exactly, what he’s said is it has something to do with the timing set and that Nissan’s first fix was to put a beefier timing set in but that it didn’t fix it.

Buddy has one of the Nismo Jukes. Probably for not much longer due to it nearing a second warrantied engine replacement, but when it’s running, man, that thing scoots. It may not be a fast car, but it sure is a fun car.

I’m sure that’s exactly why Nissan is scrapping it. Consumers forbid a car that normal people can…

For a company who’s motto is “Zoom zoom”, not offering a manual with the turbo seems a huge mistake. A manual makes this a legit sports sedan, reminiscent of the TSX. No manual makes this more of a V6 Camry competitor. Who’s the market for this? People who want a sporty car are going to look elsewhere, people who want…

I read this list and what I see is the #1 cause of accidents are people not *driving*, but just being a passenger in their own car. Have a car that lets you enjoy the driving experience and encourages you to focus on it, rather than something that lets you ignore your surroundings progressively more.

I’m not saying…

That interior is fuckin’ gross. It looks like a cheap rental car from 2027.

I think Mike Skinner as “the American” could have worked if they just let him talk, and not scripted him to death. Let him be a little honest instead of some weird amalgamation of what I can only assume are British stereotypes of American muscle-car meatheads.

Better destroyed being driven hard than wasting away being preserved in a climate-controlled garage. Cars are meant to be driven.

The right to drive isn’t a right to a driver’s license.

This is one of the issues the Founders had with the Bill of Rights; the idea that if some rights are explicitly stated, it creates an assumption those are the only rights you have. It has been argued successfully in court that you in fact do have a right to drive. It is derived from your right of personal liberty, one…

Good luck to them... GM couldn’t sell a 430hp V8-powered RWD sport sedan in this market.

Now admittedly, GM gave it the stupidest possible name, but still...

I don’t think that’s the case, they just know that if you’re buying the turbo with the manual, you don’t want all those heavy options anyway. But unlike Porsche, they’re not charging you for the privilege of less stuff.

Well, obviously he doesn’t want a hopped-up econobox, he wants the pure luxury and reliability only a Toyota Camry can provide. The smooth combination of 2.5L 4-cylinder power and its six-speed automatic mean Long Voyages are comfortable and drama-free.

This smells more like patent troll than an up-and-up infringement case. Is the current AM General the same company that produced the Humvee, or is it just the legal IP of said company collected into somebody’s war chest?

I’m right there with you. In my bone-stock ZZW30 there literally wasn’t a car on the road that could outrun me without egregiously breaking speed limits. Even in my ‘79 Bronco I had enough power and handling to collect pretty much anyone else on my front bumper when the road got twisty.

I think I would have really enjoyed him if they had just let *him* talk, rather than giving him asinine lines to regurgitate. TGA had the same problem with Tanner Foust; it never felt natural, it always felt like he was trying to remember what he was supposed to say rather than the natural conversational style that TG…