For real. All the Kirkland branded liquor I’ve had punches well above it’s price tag. It’s not top-shelf liquor, but it’s better than just about everything else at it’s price point.

Yeah I’m thinking an ambulance is the more appropriate thing to call. Violence is rarely the answer, but this seems like one of the cases where it is. This guy only did this because he was confident no one would immediately beat his ass if he did it, it’s unfortunate we live in a world where he’s right.

Counterpoint: Get gud.

It can’t, because we have a shitload of shale oil now that we couldn’t get to in 2008. If the middle east raises gas prices, we drill and the price stabilizes. Until then, we won’t drill because it’s better to have others expend their limited natural resources if they’re willing to sell them cheap. Prices might go up…

1st-gen Vs are known to have weak diffs. I certainly hope that isn’t the stock diff behind that blown V8 or the first time someone actually grabs this thing by the neck they’re gonna leave bits of pumpkin pie all over the road.

Is it 4.1? Impossible to know, but probably not.

+1 for XKCD.

Some humans aren’t better.

I didn’t say that, but your numbers are misleading based on how murders are counted in the two countries. It’s really easy to look like you don’t have violent crime when all your unsolved violent crime gets put in a different bucket and promptly ignored.

Of course, the Brits only count it as a murder when they formally charge someone. I’m serious, if they find a body with 100 gunshot wounds but can’t charge someone it’s not counted as a murder.

That’s kind of how it works in competition, for testing though the lights are more of a suggestion than anything. Not uncommon for turbo cars to sit there for a few seconds for the 2-step to do its job and build some boost before they take off.

Probably not a quicker ET, woulda picked up some MPH though.

There’s also a lack of infrastructure for people who don’t have their own garage. Most apartment complexes have very limited (if any) charging capacity, and if you can’t reliably charge at work that means you can’t reliably charge anywhere convenient.

Look, I’m American, if I can’t blame others for the consequences of my own actions this whole thing is gonna fall apart.

Weren’t we all just rah-rah-patriotism-ing over the D-day anniversary? This is how you repay all the brave Americans who died, by killing the Camaro and Corvette? For shame Europe, for shame.

Just as an FYI, your description of this AWD is how VW’s Haldex-based AWD works. FWD most of the time, up to 50% to the rear when called for. Subaru’s system is much different, it has a center diff and powers all 4 wheels all the time.

Oh I agree, just pointing out that “don’t worry guys, it’s not terrorists this time” is a more relevant statement in NYC than it would be elsewhere. If all you get is a headline “Helicopter crashes into NYC building” I can see why someone would jump to the worst possible conclusion.

Yeah, they might jump to this conclusion (or at least feel the need to make a statement about it) if there were some significant historical event regarding terrorists smashing aircraft into buildings in NYC.

This is a real concern. Parts availability is already a problem and the cars are still in production, that doesn’t bode well for parts availability 10 years from now.

It is a riot, cars that size with that much power don’t really make a lot of sense and it’s the best. Getting ready to do valve springs and retainers, see if we can’t spin this thing to 8k rpm. The turbo isn’t choked at 7200 rpm so this seems like the next logical move.