This is AWESOME. Not because I love Red Bull or want Vettel to win. I don't care who wins, honestly.

Do we need to break out the old "Dan Gurney for president" bumper stickers?

Because racecar.... Williams used a flywheel system during the first season of KERS usage in F1. Neat technology that is being expanded into, you guessed it, buses.

I know this is a going to be an unpopular answer since apparently it was a cinematic masterpiece, but I stand by my decision to post it: Drive. I hated that movie. I was misled. From the commercials it was marketed as if it was action packed, constantly showing what looked like an exciting Mustang Charger chase. …

Unfortunately, you're preaching to the choir. We few, we proud, we mighty, are one of the small few groups in the resistance. We are the minority that prefers to drive rather than be driven. We are sad when once great roads fall to the practice of "straightening". We see the the third pedal becoming a vestigial…

Lots of people seem to be reading this article and interpreting it as "it's too expensive to engineer manuals" where the sentiment is "they're too expensive to justify in addition to the automatic they're already going to do because they know they'll sell it." I expect the majority of them are engineered for markets…

That doesn't really make sense, though. Most markets that have high manual take rates don't require EPS, TCS, and ABS like we do...or like we're accustomed to.

Okay...so if it's really that expensive and complicated to run an MTX program alongside AT programs because of electronics, why are the cheapest cars with the thinnest profit margins the only ones left with decent MTX availability? Why are the cars with the highest profit margins ditching these transmission options?

Ugh, I hope somebody in the next 10-20 years starts a niche car company designing and selling cheap simple cars with a minimum of computers. It'd obviously have to be small scale, but in 15 years I can see the nostalgia market getting big enough and the used car market getting small enough that there could be…

Too clean, too refined, no third pedal. They've forgotten what the GT3 is all about, it's a racer for the road, not the track, and in that a stick will always feel better to me. I don't care if PDK is faster, or if electric steering is more precise, I want the raw feel and that's lost now. Hopefully they don't ruin…

Hey Travis, from the linked article:

Who was it that said the M3 will always have a manual a while ago? I think it was someone at BMW.

there are spy photos confirming it has a manual

This is lazy, even by Galpin standards, just haphazardly applying GR-1 design elements at an awkwardly proportioned body. The GR-1 was based on the GT too, by the way.

Sounds like the wastegate to me. Super short exhaust coming out of a turbo on a four banger means you're going to hear wastegate actuation more than on bigger engines with more cylinders and general engine noise.

I, for one, think the growing selection of single seat minimalist track weapons hitting the market is one of the most exciting things happening in motorsport. While not exactly cheap, they are generally priced at a level that makes it less than ridiculous to daydream about getting one someday. The Mono would make a…

Sad six and a Mush-O-Matic? I prefer to use the actual factory terms of Blue Flame and Powerglide when talking about my '54, thankyouverymuch.