I was autocrossing my STi years ago and I let a friend do a fun run who hadn’t driven the car before. The site we were at was an airfield where we had access to the concrete ramp and the asphalt runway. The course designer had a fast sweeper where the car crossed over onto the slick asphalt right after it was time to…

The STI can’t change it’s torque slip between the front and rear, that’s set via static gear ratio. What it can do is allow the driver to manually select what degree of lock the center differential provides.

“but in general it does...”

Yes, each car is different.

AWD does impact how the car handles pre-apex though, because of the engine braking effect being applied to all four wheels instead of just two. How much it impacts it has to do with the differentials, if they're all open or if any of them lock during deceleration. So no, AWD does not "add grip" on deceleration in the…

So many people angry about them going to MacStrut that nobody stopped to realize that this didn't really stop it from being a great handling car.

That Acura left this segment behind is why I went with a MkVI GTI. I'd have loved a modern Integra, but sadly it wasn't an option. Honda induction noise is one of my favorite car sounds.

It has built in crumple zones.

As an adult.... I would choose the RS over every BMW for any reason. See the “BMW engines are unreliable pieces of shit” post that happened recently.

But the real question is.... will Ferrari not allow them to run these cars on the same track on the same day as Porsches and McLarens? As in, how Ferrari was apparently so ashamed of the LaFerrari's performance they they couldn't have it run at the same time as the P1 or the 918.

Change it all to black, move the center screen up a few inches, add a couple of spokes to the steering wheel, and you have a new Audi.

As a spectator I don’t much care. Football is boring.

It looks like it’s trying to be a GTI. Except it’s not a GTI.

I’m not a lawyer or a cop, so I don’t know, but if this is legal I know what I’m doing next weekend.

I think so, Google says the fastest speed every achieved there is 462 MPH, and that was the second place that came to mind when I thought about it. The other place being VW's facility in Europe. Otherwise I don't know of anywhere else that's setup to support that kind of speed.

It's like a free Exocet with a bigger engine.

This is purely academic when there's only a place or two on the planet that you can run a car at that speed.

Not that this is a war crime.... but the words “I was only following orders is rarely an accepted excuse in court” are burned into my head after having received Law of Armed Conflict training over and over again over the years.

Still though, it seems highly improbable that the engineer was the originator of this idea.…

AM-RB 0001? What a stupid name for a car.

Yeah but holy crap is that track expensive to get on. Something like $500 a day. I look forward to driving it some day, but for that kind of cash I can travel to Road Atlanta.