Really my only visual complaint, and it’s a mild one, is that the interior looks nearly identical to the last gen. The center stack looks largely unchanged. 

Yep even the VW group EA888 gen 3 with its absurd tuning ability will get you “only” 80-something more HP and torque with a new downpipe (stage 2).

I never felt like they were leaving him on the runway to wait his turn, the way I feel they’ve been doing with Ted this year.

Definitely the latter IMO - they have an endless pile of cash and can just get about whatever song they want for their flagship series. 

Yep. Just drove the Nurburgring for 11 laps, and that was my first ever track day. It essentially showed me just how little performance you can actually extract from a car on public roads. The difference is enormous and the experience was a high I’ll be chasing until the next time I get to do a good track day.

You just kinda disproved your own take by mentioning that a front engine, all wheel drive layout has spawned several decades of race winning cars. 

Agreed and it’s largely because unless you are frequently taking a car to the track and really driving it to its limits, which almost no one can afford to do if all they can afford is a $25,000-45,000 car, the real world performance difference between a GTI and a Golf R or a WRX and the WRX STi is negligible. Unless…

I love the look and engine sound of old muscle cars, but yeah that’s about it. They drive like total ass and are only useful for something nice to look at and maybe have a slow drag race. It’s like classic rock - there’s nothing inherently better musically about it than anything being made now. The culture of the time…

I enjoy reading quotes from like Socrates about how he wrote that the youth of his time were disrespectful, dismissive of tradition, and self absorbed, because this shows how humans have been saying the exact same thing about other generations since forever. You get to your middle age and elderly years and your brain…

Also, why is the Model T here? How is a car from the 1920s “overrated”? Especially when I guarantee that only 0.0001% of Jalopnik commenters have ever driven one. 

Exactly. Why would I want to rent another car from you, even for free, if there is a possibility it gets absconded in the middle of the night while I’m on a trip with it? 

Mazda RX-8: if a car needs more special attention than a boat to daily drive, it’s a piece of shit. I said it. When it works, it’s great. The rest of the time, I fail to see the appeal of ownership experience that involves never short tripping the car or the engine floods (so, you need a second car for errands), an…

The reason they retain value is because, especially as time and the industry move on, there is nothing else like them for sale. True AWD (not slip and grip clutch packs that are totally front wheel drive biased), manual 5 or 6 speed, easily tuneable, huge aftermarket support.

Other way around right? We’re getting the GR Corolla hatch and not the Yaris. 

“This sounds like overkill, but simply getting to the thermostat on this engine involves going through the timing belt, which is also right next to the water pump.”

Not even that really. It was just a Civic in a tuxedo to compete with the Audi A3/Mercedes CLA. 

I mean not really. The reviews of it all say it felt too cheap inside and was slow as all hell (like 10 seconds to 60, in a luxury car). 

Yep. See: Patriot Act

Yep very clearly the cop had no real reason to suspect anything, or else he would have pulled him right away. If you know someone is drunk at the wheel, you don’t tailgate them for several miles. You pull them over right away. Clearly, the cop found nothing like warrants or expired/suspended license/registration, and…

Let’s take the loaded “DUI” part out of this, because that’s going to sway opinion as most people consider that to be a more heinous crime than, say, speeding.