The other problem is that driving will take longer, including security and waiting, along with more risk of getting stuck in traffic. The fact that everything you’re usually going to in LV is close to the airport and there are shuttles just about anywhere you need/want to go tilts it strongly toward flying unless you…

Please argue this with the San Franciscans.

Inland Empire. The 909. For all intents and purposes, everything considered within the greater Los Angeles Metro Area east of the collection of hills dividing the San Gabriel Valley (SGV) from the Pomona Valley, along with everything east of the Chino Hills, but west of the Palm Springs region (delimited by the range…

San Francisco has expanded to dominate NorCal culture. The SF metro commuting area extends to roughly Fresno now and that means culture creep. Sac is along a major highway, so it has been a bedroom community for low-paid SF workers for years.

Damn. All my stomping grounds. Hello, there. I grew up in the SGV back when it was old white people and Mexicans, as it was just starting to turn into China. Didn’t live in the South Bay, but a long-time girlfriend did, as well as one of my aunts, so I spent a lot of time in the area (areas south of El Segundo through…

This was 5-10 years ago. My friends and I frequented a track near LGB fairly often (almost every week) and it was only about 1-1.25 hours for these runs, depending on traffic.

And considering you have to live about that far out to afford housing on what most jobs pay, you’d think they would be more accepting.

In their defense (not really, that was stupid), LAX and LGB are often far cheaper than SAN. I would almost always pay the difference to fly in/out of SAN over LAX (except some international flights that required a transfer somewhere stupid if you flew from SAN but were cheap/direct from LAX), but there were a number…

HHFP lives in UT.

Except this would never happen in the IE as there are no controlled-access highways built this poorly out there. This does apply to the bad section of the 405 in the South Bay area, though.

My mind just exploded. Where the hell are you from?!

People do the same thing in the Bay Area and most of NorCal. The rest of the country uses the “I-##” style for interstates and slightly varying styles for local highways.

I’m sorry, this is correct/standard terminology in Southern California. Northern California omits “the” entirely and simply say a number with zero qualifications as if everyone should know it is some road.

2000 or 2001 Chevy Cavalier in this garish bright red. It was a rental. I’ve told the story before. Crap car, even though it was new, but still more acceptable than any car my parents owned.

I drove a 2001 version of this car for mine. It was a rental. Pile of crap even with a mere 1500 miles on the clock.

Focus is MI. Soon China, I hear.

But their skidpad of 0.86g isn’t impressive. You’re probably a better driver than your competition or your classification skews your perception. What is a “comparable” car?

This is where the BRZ/86 is so baffling to me. When average cars are so much better than they used to be, how do you justify this car? The Corolla being so close just adds insult to injury. If it was pulling crazy numbers on any front compared to the price, I’d see the point, but it doesn’t...

BRZ: 0.86g

Also, the lateral acceleration rating on a stock BRZ is 0.86g, which is impressive coming from your average econobox or 80s-90s car. However, it’s less than the 0.95g of a stock V6 Mustang with the stock all-seasons on the current platform (often derided as the “secretary spec”), which in turn is slightly worse than…