That’s what I was saying. They kept it for the 2000/01 “classic” body style and dropped it afterward.

RWD Veloster?

Side note; do the Cobb tunes work with the Fusion 1.6 as well? I’m a Ford tech, and I’m gonna probably plunk my family in a FiST later this summer, but the thought of an AWD Escape, or M/T Fusion with a FiST flash tune on it just sounds like hilarious amounts of fun and troll-car.

All that is fair, and if I had track rims I’d be cleaning and inspecting them after every track day and replacing as required; but when someone says “wear item” I think tires, shocks, brakes... stuff that needs to be replaced annually or so...

In that case, your whole chassis is a wear item. Even OEM rims on normally driven cars need to be replaced from time to time. When someone says “wear item” I consider it something that is replaced yearly or every couple years. But regardless, if I had dedicated track rims and tires, they would be getting cleaned and…

Landing a 10,000# truck on one tire off a rock ledge at an angle isn’t a lateral load?

Enough to not be considered useless after a dozen track days? I mean, I realize light weight is the ultimate goal, but it’s one of those diminishing returns things. I was simply surprised that they would be made with so little consideration for strength in the face of lightness. And yes, I am considering this to be an…

I suppose, but I would also think that they would engineer them with that in mind. I do understand there are huge lateral loads on the rim when running massively sticky tires on the track, but enough so as to consider them a wear item?

In the face of offroad rims and what they get subjected to, it’s pretty sad that performance car rims are prone to failure just because of sticky tires and bumps on the track (I realize this guy had a serious off, but you commented that you consider rims to be wear items with sticky tires). I don’t track my car, but…

It truly is fantastic. So much air moving it shifts everything around it. I’ve spent a bunch of time around IMSA cars, and othe high-po V8s, but never had the honour of being near the Top Fuelers. It’s high on my list. I’m pretty sure I’d jump too, and I’m a mechanic, and not a jumpy person by nature.

I will always star an Ace Ventura reference.

This isn’t about wheeling. It’s about driving across a continent for a month straight. We get it, you like Jeeps, but don’t twist the comparison to make it come out on top. If this was about rock crawling, yeah; the Jeep would probably come out on top. It’s not. Therefore it doesn’t.

Everyone on the whole screen jumping in unison when they make it bark is just too funny. I think I just watched 75 people pee themselves a little bit.

That was exactly my thought. Red Bull seems to be doing it more and more, where they find something that is just barely over the edge of ignorant and put enough flashy editing and music in for people to think it’s cool. IIRC they went wakeboarding with a tow line through some rice paddies or something not too long ago…

That was kinda my thought. I mean, they’re a high performance engine, but at the end of the day they’re just an engine. Any competent builder should be able to assemble one without it grenading. Just like the Roush and Shelby motors that are signed by the builder it’s little more than a status thing. When guys are…

That claim about the weight is false, D’Onofrio still wins for FMJ. Still insane. I lost 50 lbs to illness once, went from 190, to 145ish over the course of a month and a half. I pretty much looked like that...

Oh, they won’t ever be worth some ungodly amount of money, but look how much a clapped out 240sx goes for. Pick one up, enjoy it for a handful of years and sell it to some kid for 2/3 of what you paid, because you’re a grown up and don’t abuse the hell out of it.

Oh for sure, I’m not saying they’re wrong about sales figures, just interesting how that varies from region to region. I think part of the problem with it is that they came out of the gate with people complaining about it being underpowered, and that scared a lot of buyers away. I don’t know that they ever recovered…

Oh for sure, I’m not saying they’re wrong about sales figures, it’s just kinda interesting how skewed that can seem from region to region.

Maybe I do.