Lotus can’t even sell the Elise in this country any more due to NHTSA regulations. Their airbag exemption expired and they had to pack up their shit and go home. There’s no purer car in existence.

You can’t tell me that trip wouldn’t have been more fun in an NSX. Or an S2000. Or if you want a FWD example, an Integra Type R. Want something American that’s more fun than a Fiesta ST? 2006-2008 Cobalt SS or SRT4 Neon. German? Scirocco VR6 or R32.

Great example.

This is at least halfway towards completing my automotive manifesto.

A Corvette Z06 with a factory muffler (granted the sport exhaust option) is occasionally OVER the dB limit at Lime Rock. Believe it. It's not being measured at 75mph, it's being measured at wide open throttle at the end of the main straight. Acoustics are funny, and dBs vary based on humidity, cloud cover, resonance…

I’m sure the OEM’s will rebound just fine

They do serve lots of beer at the Frankfurt show, so I’m just going to correct that typo for ya.

So, a little bit of this

Well put. A computer is one thing, a cell phone is another. But it is truly staggering to me how many people are already willing to put their lives in the binary hands of an autonomous vehicle that cannot possibly deal with every situation it will inevitably be presented with on the road.

If it’s any consolation, I think our tech-future cars will become worthless in less time than ever. Who wants the last generation of the iSnycCueConnectXplosion infotainment system when the new model offers a Siri blowjob function? Hello autonomy, bye bye residuals.

A big thanks to Mike and Raphael for their help in shaping this piece from a 8,500 word rant about emergency auto braking, the lack of knobs on modern cars and why good barbecue shouldn’t need sauce into something that might actually be readable.

That’s great! Duly noted. Now if it’s alright with you, I’ll go back to real life now, in which I don’t know everything happening on every site on the internet.

Great reference and adaptation of this famous story. Sorry to blow your source material, but I figured there might be enough people interested in reading it! I first read the story in “The Right Stuff” by Tom Wolfe, and just looked it up and discovered it originated from Brian Schul, an SR71 pilot who wrote “Sled…

Yeah it’s an all or nothing approach. The other dealers will eat the lunches of the trial period “no haggle” guys.

I’d just like to point out that few people realize that major spectator events usually aren’t very profitable for big tracks, except Nascar. The sanctioning fees run in the hundreds of thousands or more. Plus tracks need to pay huge temporary staffs to inflate their worker count during events. That's a lot of tickets.

This looks like a one handed wheel rotation, combined with a right hand shuffle steer resulting in full lock understeer. Fascinating technique!

Here is the fine print:

What I think most people should demand, and what they really want, is disclosure.

Bryanska, you may be familiar with this already, but the American Press Institute (a worthy source) has some eloquent descriptions of objectivity in journalism, and managing bias. A good quote from the article...

This is a bad idea. Irresponsible at best, deadly at worst. No amount of programming will ever be capable of responding to every single roadside surprise. Inevitably, someone will be killed by a car and someone will be held responsible. You can bet it won’t be auto manufacturers... does Google really want to play that…