And already in testing, they’re posting some of, if not the highest, lap totals on the first day. It means very little in the long run but it was an important emotional win for everyone. Don’t count them out yet!

That looks a lot like mightycarmod’s old daihatsu - The Blue Turd...

And now I want gillette to produce a product called the F-1 which will have carbon fiber handles for “improved handling” and you can get them in the color schemes of every F1 team.

Wow.....You can roll in any number of 4 to 8 year old boxsters and caymans for that price. Or an S2000. Or most corvettes. Or really any number of better cars.

One make racing series for you and some friends at your local track. Any track. Ovals, dirt, road course, or even a drag strip. They’re great cars to learn technique in since they’re light, respond fairly well to driver input, and are dirt cheap to buy and fix...outside of the ACR anyways.

I think you mean, the ridiculous debt. If you owe 15,000 on a 25,000 asset and payments will mean you always owe less than the total worth of the asset then you are “using” your debt just fine. But if you are in a situation where you owe more than the “asset” was worth new, 2 years down the line, your debt has gone…

As much as I’d like to “prove him wrong”, one of the accounts my 401(k) has been invested into has done 15-20% every year since I took this new job in 2014. Others still have been 10-15%. So for something you can continually put money into and get compound interest on? Yeah it’s a much better use of your money.  

And yet people find a way.....

Oh man....When I sold my ailing 1991 Audi 200 20v, a kid really wanted to make payments on it. I tried to explain to him over and over again that a) it didn’t run well. b) it would bankrupt him in repairs and, most importantly, c) If he gets this car and spends his paycheck fixing it only for it to break down anyways…

Torque curves, not depreciation curves!

First Gear: *looks out window at a Focus ST*

“it could be rode hard, put away wet, and still make 200k.”

Hey I can’t help it if, like your mother, the target was so large and easy to hit...

The transmission fails. But in all honesty there’s about a 1% chance of that every time you start up a Chrysler product...

Something I found direly lacking in the old veloster was seating position and the seat as a whole. I really hope that gets fixed too. Cause it can be fast as all hell but if I can’t sit in it for more than half an hour then I kinda can’t get one.

*crosses fingers and says a “prayer” out loud*

It has an electronic differential, not a mechanical LSD. I wouldn’t be surprised if it isn’t too many steps above the brake vectoring that the STs do. And the electronic suspension is a neat bullet point but we’ll have to see if that really is useful or if only one setting is any good or if any of it is tuned…

To my understanding, the Focus ST outsold the Fiesta ST by a hefty margin. And the Focus outsells the Fiesta year over year. No surprise that they’d kill the Fiesta but keep the Focus.

I like it, to a point, but I like the competition it brings even more.