The Orochi is so godawful ugly and pathetic, I can’t help but love it. It reminds me of some of the “great” overhyped but ultimately underperforming and horribly made cars of the 80s and 90s like the Vector, Delorean or the C4/C5 Vettes.

But the Stinger isn’t a $40-60k sedan. It’s a $30-40k sedan. Which is a completely different demo.

After the last two Saturdays, I feel the Texas win was more aberration than foreshadowing.

As a Jayhawk, I want to hate this because: UT. But it’s too cool, I can’t.*

It looks like we’re arguing the same - or at least fairly similar - points. It is an oversimplification to state that there was no other contributing factor to the formation of the Confederacy but slavery. However, the increased industrialization and growing abolition movement in the North were both perceived as…

If he’s incorrect, please inform us how. The Confederacy existed entirely to maintain slavery. The states rights argument is revisionist history aimed at making the idea of the Confederacy more palatable to those raised in the modern South.

The civil war was entirely about slavery. If it was about states’ rights, the Confederacy would have adopted the US constitution or perhaps argued their case before the Supreme Court. Instead the constitution of the Confederacy mandated slavery in any member state; not a whole lot of states’ rights going on there.

If soccer moms, douche bros and floosies driving Macans and Cayennes helps pay for the r&d that gives us GT3s and a potential F1 program, I hope they sell a million.

There is still a small amount of fuel being pumped into the cylinders under closed throttle, otherwise, the engine would shut off completely. The throttle is never 100% closed. There is always some air and fuel flowing to the cylinders. Depending on the fuel injection system’s mapping or perhaps a carb, the increased…

You may save a marginal percentage more fuel by coasting, but why would you? You have less control, and in most states, it’s illegal to coast in neutral.

As someone who has owned an MG Midget and two RX-7s and misses them badly, this car checks all the boxes for me!

...said no-one, ever.

My immediate thought was that he is referring to Audi. They have definitely upped the tech game inside, but they have remained very conservative in they styling changes over the last several years.

I’m sorry to be a complete dick, but it was going to meet this fate anyway unless he got down there and dug it out by hand immediately. (And the pics of it “recovered” prove that) The city or state employees or contractors tasked with cleaning the beach are not going to take time to carefully extract this or any other…

There may be people on the streets, but it’s still a WAR ZONE! Driving one of those things in Baghdad or anywhere in Afghanistan is like wearing a giant sign that says “RPG goes here”.  You keep moving, or you die.

Yes. It does. The price has no bearing in this comparison. The F150 has 7" more cargo/passenger space but is only 7-3/4" longer. There is no compactness left in the compact truck. A true compact truck, like the Mazda B2000 I had in college, doesn’t exist anymore. The Tacoma is still big enough that small parking lots…

For a real apples to apples comparison to show how bloated the Taco is: the Raptor (the only F150 available in extended cab and short bed) is only 7.7" longer than the quad cab Tacoma, and it still has 1" of additional rear leg room and 6" more bed length. Plus the Ford’s automatic transmission doesn’t suck.

But that F150 crew cab has 11" more leg room in the back seat than the Toyota. Alternatively, you could get 1" more leg room than the Toyota, plus a 6.5' bed in the same length, and you would probably pay the same amount or less than the cost of the Taco.

Keep in mind: Justin wasn’t born when the T56 was introduced and magazines were complaining about the skip shift. It’s become such an accepted annoyance that it never gets mentioned anymore.

Double-clutching (disengaging the clutch, shifting to neutral, engaging the clutch, disengaging the clutch, shifting into gear, engaging the clutch) shouldn’t increase the wear on anything as long as the revs aren’t completely out of whack. You should probably learn how a transmission works before you come off as a…