This is the dirty truth of Elises. A friend has one and absolutely adores it, but he lives in abject terror of clamshell dings.

Kind of amazing what people can and will spend just to get some natural beauty into their eyeballs. (Although I can’t say they’re wrong.)

Thank you so much for enlightening me about the Sir Patrick shoey. I’m so happy this exists.

We’re talking about the *back* seat here. Which is mostly full of roll cage.

This is the way.

Oh I get that. I was mostly pointing out that it’s an ancient platform, so it shouldn’t be a surprise when its tech is ancient too.

Don’t bother with that both-sides bullshit. It’s lazy and dishonest.

You expected a 4Runner to be modern?

Luxury brands and Toyota will probably continue to have solid earnings, and dealers are making money hand over fist since they don’t have to negotiate on prices, but most of the mainstream car companies are getting hurt badly.

“most winningest driver”

I agree that it’s a stupid idea. But Ross Brawn has been the technical director or team principal for 16 F1 world championships, including all of Schumacher’s titles with Benetton and Ferrari (and all the constructor’s championships those teams won) and the 2009 Brawn GP double championship. In the 16-season stretch…

The WRX build and price section isn’t up yet because pricing hasn’t been announced. Only the preview page is live. There’s a huge 2022 WRX banner at the top of the Subaru homepage that links to it.

This is a basic cap-and-trade system for reducing carbon emissions, similar to CARB’s system. The government puts a cap on each company’s emissions and companies that produce few emissions (like Tesla) earn credits that they can sell to other companies (like JLR) that go over the cap.

It’s truly absurd to think that a 21x13 wheel could weigh “a little more” than 15 pounds. A high-end forged 17x8 wheel weighs around that much.

Hyundai! Dinkin’ flicka!

That’s glorious.

That’s 100% the baby name.

“4 door pillared hardtop” - proving that car companies were doing stupid things with bodystyle naming long before terms like “Gran Coupe” came along.

Agree. The red/white/blue NY plates from ‘86-’00 were especially good--simple, legible and iconic, unlike anything that came after, including the new 2020 white plate. But you could never do a red Statue of Liberty today. People from the Southern Tier would start shouting about how it makes her a communist.

I agree that he’s one of the greatest ever and in the conversation with Loeb as the best, but he’s almost always been in the fastest car available. The Polo R WRC was ridiculously dominant in the 2013-2016 period when he won his first four titles, and the current Yaris (his 2020 and probably 2021 titles) is likely…