In another case, engineers were locked out of the vehicle’s hatch, forcing them to climb through the interior to access the cargo area. This explains the number of prototypes we have seen with cords hanging out from their hatches, as the upscale models have power hatches.

Of all the things to complain about, this is pretty much a non-issue. Steering effort is always highest at a stop since the tires are 100% scrubbing. It’s not a good way to see the response from any system. Even a slight roll would probably make it much less noticeable

Next race for me is the epic Southern Ohio Forest Rally, June 8-10!

are you thinking of Matt’s BMW? who works for the other website now?

Absolutely checking everything. I’m not breaking my back for my company going on a trip. If my stuff gets lost I’m going shopping on their dime

BRZ is very fun on a rally stage

In my experience the sensors themselves are cheap garbage. In my testing it would not reliably pick up a single large traffic cone, I had to have multiple objects next to each other to get it to detect reliably

Seeing that every real estate agent drives some kind of massive 3 row SUV (Escalade etc) I don’t buy that this loophole is closed

Just saying, you could have used a 94-96 roadmaster wagon and kept your purity 

The engines are designed and tested for this. Usually involves sleeved cylinders that should be very strong

It throws a CEL and doesn’t do stop-start but will still start normally... did you read the article?

I was at Empire in 2016, this was by far everyone’s favorite car. So awesome

I guess I’m not that impressed since WRC cars have had anti-lag for a long time...

But was it THE friend that he had in the car...?

Front collisions are most common, rollovers are the smallest percentage but generally the deadliest. The crash test speed is really based on the estimated energy dissipated during the crash

Crash tests are based on field data of what crashes are the most common

Yeah, but also no. The reason it’s usually a 35 or 40mph test into a solid barrier is based on data of the speed delta during the crash. Meaning two cars hit each other at 55 (small front overlap), their data showed that the cars would have about 15mph after they were done crashing into each other. Very rarely does…

The rear does not have nearly the same amount of safety tech as the front seats, not just lack of airbags but also with the seatbelts

Pretty much every EV can do more than 0.3Gs in regen. You’re not even doing max regen if you’re not pressing the brakes. That’s just called category A, or coasting regen. It’s fully up to the OEM to decide how much they want to do, usually with customer selectable levels. I’m pretty sure the Rimac in one pedal drive…

If they sold more efficient vehicles instead of giant tanks, maybe they wouldn’t have to force the allocations like this