You just described most Lotus cars ever sold, so I have a hard time feeling like this would be a huge impediment. Lotus has long been the curiously street legal track car for well heeled buyers who didn't want a Porsche for one reason or another.

It’s true though. The bottom line are so much more complex and have so many more hour one players due to the success of all these pre-order schemes that the amount of sheer volume the servers are expected to handle at launch time almost always causes problems beyond what the developer’s testing foresaw.

I wonder if they had permission from Paramount to use the scene from Mission Impossible 2 of Luthor’s van being blown up in their promotional video.

I know I can respect your views and have a calm, measured discourse with you because you’re making the broad, sweeping generalization that all motoring enthusiasts either choose to “roll coal” or support others doing it, despite the fact that very few of us do.

You could be right, although I think the Obama administration is deeper in bed with the EU than you give it credit for. The primary reason they’d want to look hard on VW is to appease the environmental lobby, since the left is usually strapping on their knee pads for those votes, but after the treaty signed this year…

If GM can directly kill 124 people due to their negligence and refusal to fix an issue they knowingly greenlit and still stay in business I’m guessing VW can handle lying to consumers about their emissions. You’re right, it’s possible, but I don’t see it impacting this market that badly, especially considering how…

There’s no cost effective way to make them clean and have the same mileage, but if you’ve accepted that you’re going to compensate owners for the lost mileage vs. the description of the product you purchased it’s easy. VW will find a fix that will reduce mileage by 20-30% while complying with emissions standards and…

I stand corrected. Apologies.

The word accident implies there was no fault, that’s why crashes on public roads are now referred to as a collision or incident. If Bianchi had been crushed by a celestial object it would be an accident, but by acknowledging that it could have been prevented, you’re also acknowledging that it wasn’t an accident. In…

Bianchi’s death wasn’t a freak event, it could have been avoided by having far better procedures for the situation. It also could have been potentially mitigated by the presence of a structure to absorb some of the impact.

What a dumb ass.

I feel like the sport is so safe at the moment that CCs are pointless

So by your logic we should put them back in leather helmets with goggles and balaclavas for the sake of “the essence of the sport”?

You don’t see how having a cage that encloses the most vulnerable portion of the car in terms of driver safety will help protect drivers?

I know this post is old as hell, but this is ridiculous. You’re right, F1 teams have never attempted to botch internal investigations to cover up their responsibility in crashes. Oh wait, that’s right, it’s been the habit to throw drivers under the bus for years. Just ask Williams: Ayrton Senna’s steering was PERFECT,…

For starters, I’m not sure that any of these articles are rooting for failure, but calling it like you see it is a journalist’s job. You don’t need to see the first episodes of this series to know it was a shitstorm trying to get the series made, that’s objectively been seen already. Jalopnik’s job isn’t to write…

Personal liberty, precedent for the limitations of the executive branch, global perception of our criminal justice system, the state of readiness of our military, obedience to the constitutional legislative process.

Coverage is better for the people who weren’t covered before. Coverage for those who already were covered is poorer, more expensive, and for many more difficult to acquire than before. I’m sure some states have functioning exchanges, but I can tell you from personal experience that it took NY state’s site more than a…

You’re welcome to look at my other post where I listed something like a half dozen examples of exactly what I said about Obama, I’m not going to retype three paragraphs again, but I have more than enough evidence to support my three statements about Obama. You seem to tacitly approve of Obama’s administration based on…

So to summarize, your defense is “Bush was worse”? Forgive me if I don’t sign off on eight years of Obama somehow not being complete and utter shit just because Cheney was evil and Bush was inept. If we’re judging our presidents by the largest failures in our history I suppose Bush performed slightly better than…