Dammit Ballaban, thanks to this I found out there’s one an hour away in Boston and now I have to investigate this beacon of hope for minimalism in a world of increasing maximalism.
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Mitchell, you’ve earned yourself a milled aluminum Jalop Card. Congratulations on your hard-earned Master’s, and here’s to a successful career to support your many years of driving joy to come!
I raise your pardon?
Which now begs the question of how hard this car was beaten by its owner...
I disagree. HUDs currently don’t display enough information, like my current and best lap times, the number of laps to go, my current position, and the timer for how much longer I have to get to the next checkpoint and extend my time.
One key point he makes is that, even without factoring in a wheel’s/tire’s weight, increasing tire radius without re-gearing yields less force between the tire and the ground, and thus slower vehicle acceleration.
75 V8's in a row. RIP whatever one-make race series was cancelled for its engine donation.
I love it, but I’m also a sucker for space-efficient, cab-over designs.
They’re just trying not to admit that they sold their small car because the Starbucks drive-through window was six inches too high up.
It may be meaningless, but send Mazda Customer Relations a quick email or phone call letting them know that. An extra voice can’t hurt.
Validation and market demand. Bringing the stick to the Mazda3 with the 2.5L for MY2015 was relatively simple since the existing engine and transmission combo was available in the Mazda6, and they shared the same platform. Same engine, same bolt patterns, lighter weight car = quick validation and minimal incremental…
User error - incorrect field. Thank you! The explanation was legitimately bugging me.
I’d love to know how this error came to be. There’s no quick, obvious explainer (extra zeroes, integer under/overflow, double entry) and it certainly seems like a program error. The circumstances as to how or why it spit out exactly $8,692,063 are what we (well, I) want here.
Jordan is pure to a fault. I respect the hell out of him and hope to see him compete in even higher-tier motorsports than he does today.
Botched Lemons car aspirations revealed just how hilariously fun these things were. They tipped the scale at a hair under one ton in 5MT form, making the most of its meager 100hp on tap. A bit slow to start but once under way there was hardly any mass to shift from corner to corner, giving it eager, lively driving…
The P2 made itself known to the world on Top Gear back in 2006, when it got Jeremy Clarkson to puke.
The lead photo’s similarity to a Ford Escape, particularly in the front end, is on the edge of unsettling. Did these share a chassis with the blue oval?
My biggest pet peeve is people who insist their car is faster than mine, and upon telling them I would gladly settle it at the track, immediately whine about the cost of attending a track day, autocross, dragstrip, or any other high performance driving event. This is 9 times out of 10 followed up with the insinuation…