It is tough to tell from the low quality video but Bilster Berg is an incredible circuit that makes great use of elevation. It was designed to be a sort of mini Nurburgring with better runoff.

Margins are better up market but they also don’t need to grow production as quickly.

It is a psychological trick. “Free booze” seems like a rare and precious thing, and if they bless the journalists with this magical liquid then the journalists feel they “owe” it to the manufacturer to say nice things about the product.

Totally agree. I’m very impressed with her racing skills and wish her the best in her career. But this is just a PR stunt for her and Porsche.

I’d prefer them to spend their whole budget just adding more tracks and maybe a bigger variety of road cars. Nice that they added Interlagos and the Porsche ring, but concerning that they dropped 2 of Europe’s most popular circuits, Spa and La Sarthe.

I’d prefer them to spend their whole budget just adding more tracks and maybe a bigger variety of road cars. Nice…

Well I didn’t say it above but it is probably ok to travel from a hot spot to another hot spot as long as you don’t spread it along the way. It’s only bad to go from hot to cold or cold to hot.

Prevalence is how common the disease is in a population.

There are no “new areas” for this virus. It is everywhere. We shouldn’t travel from a hot spot to an area on lockdown where it is spreading slowly (or vice versa). However, traveling between areas of comparable prevalence isn’t any riskier than buying groceries and filling up your car down the street from your house.

People with “lockdown fatigue” aren’t necessarily entitled whiners. Suicide deaths have spiked everywhere during the pandemic, probably due to stress and social isolation. Ditto for domestic violence. At the same time, mental health and social services have become much harder to access. I work in the ER in Arizona and…

I don’t think it’s irresponsible to road trip during the pandemic if you do it responsibly and travel between areas of comparable prevalence.

Yeah some rare beautiful cars should be chopped, at least one example. BMW E9s are probably my favorite classics and I’ve always thought a chopped version would look amazing.

Do you know who doesn’t make a single car focused on driver engagement? Dodge, Chrysler, and Jeep. The couple low-volume Abarth models are the only drivers cars in the FCA line. So Mr FCA isn’t really the best person to speak on this.

Joe Walsh actually had a 5000GT that could do something around 165. It was one of the fastest cars of the 50s...

Get a Toyota Sienna. Then lift it.

Too much money, too much gas.

A home charging station costs $500 if you are an electrician with 220v power in your garage. Otherwise, it’s going to cost a lot more to run the power and get it installed. And then think of the people who park their cars in their driveway or street park.

I’m an ER doctor and lately I’ve been sitting around a lot on shift. People are staying away from hospitals if the can, so in most of the country, this is a better than average time to get moderately hurt. Bad time to need an ICU, bad time to get at all hurt in NYC. But as others have pointed out, less chance of…

David, the biggest EV advantage I can see is “traction control” where computers can precisely modulate torque at each wheel to crawl over a rock or up steep gravel without slipping. Obviously ICE cars have this too but it is much slower to react to slippage.

The best muscle cars were not American

Hmm I guess I’ll just live in my Model S then. I can watch Netflix in there, I can poop in there, I can go to drive throughs... wait... at the drive through I have to open the window? And eat food touched by poors who aren’t protected by Tesla? Aaaaaaah!