I used to drive through 1 hour (each way - 2 hours roundtrip) with an Infiniti G37S 6MT. I sat through about 20-30 minutes of stop and go and 30-40 minutes of congested cruising. I always enjoyed my drive. most of the people making your excuse just have spouses that won’t “let” them get a manual, or were too impatient…

That’s because peak horsepower and the actual power curve are very different things. A lot of turbo engines make their peak horsepower for like 20-30% of their rev range. In contrast, NA motors make peak horsepower for a very small amount of time at the very top end of their engine rev range. So even if a 3.0T V6motor…

Dude, the 340i never made 330+ hp at the wheels. There are so many bad dyno tests online. Turbocharged cars are generally faster because of their wide and flat torque curves. They have more power over the rev range even if peak numbers are comparable to NA engines.

So to sum up what is happening, they’re negotiating their tax rate. They are saying that they will move elsewhere unless they get to pay less taxes than other smaller companies.

How about we don’t second guess what the firefighters are doing right now. They are literally risking their lives to save life and property right now. Saving lives is their top priority I’m sure. It always is. If you think any different, then you have never met a firefighter.

You could get a <100k mile E39 M5 in good shape for this price. Obvious CP.

If the Z4 does well and there is a market for it, they will make a Z4 M. They just don’t want to promise something that may never happen. If you’re that worried about it, go buy one. Just because BMW doesn’t make an M model doesn’t mean they’re no longer the “Ultimate Driving Machine”. Of course, they’re not anymore,…

It is standard procedure to test drive a car after any work is done to it. If the mechanic who worked on it decides to rev it out one time, then so be it. It makes literally no difference to me whether they went 45mph or 80mph as long as they didn’t abuse the car (which they absolutely didn’t) and didn’t crash it due…

Who cherry picked that screenshot of the PDR saying 94mph? It was a blip in the speed, not the speed the car was actually traveling. Regardless, he was speeding, yes, but he only sped when the road was completely empty with tons of visibility. And he never gunned the engine or took sharp turns. The car was…

What do you think happened on this test drive that was so bad? The tech waited until the car was warmed up. Drove it slowly around turns. Never drove fast when other cars were around. He kept the engine in the middle of its powerband. He was short-shifting the entire time. Looks like a pretty typical test drive to…

When did I say it was perfectly reasonable? But the post says the Vette was going 94mph. That’s simply false. Whoever cherry picked that screenshot knew exactly this was the case because it was a momentary blip in the speed.

The Raptor base price is $52,855 (basically $53k) plus $1495 destination makes it $54,350. Destination charge is mandatory so everyone pays it. It’s part of the price of the car.

I’ll provide the jackets if you provide the Elise.

It’s strange. The car was not actually traveling that quickly. It was accelerating slowly from 4th gear and once it hit about 80mph, the speedo jumped up to 94 then back down and hit a top speed of 87mph. It looks like the tech just hit a bump or something.

lol, this car wasn’t “thrashed”. I saw the whole boring video. The kid warms the car up, and accelerates slowly and shortshifts the whole time except for once. He redlines it once. And the screenshot of him going 94mph is misleading because while he was definitely going at least 87, the speedo jumped from about 80 to…

AWD and higher ground clearance do provide some higher level of off-road capability, actually. But I do know what you’re talking about. 

Sedans are still HUGE in sales. Yes CUVs are taking away market share, but sedans are still a very large market. It’s about 50/50 right now, trucks excluded. Hardly something to be abandoned. Ford sold over 200,000 Fusions in 2017 in just the U.S. That’s more than they sold up until 2009. They sold 300,000 sedans in…

There’s still plenty of demand for sedans. Ford just decided to give up than try to compete.

She won’t live as luxuriously as some people think, but a person can easily live on $175k/year in virtually any city in the world. After taxes, she’ll end up with about $9500/month. Say a decent apartment costs about $2500 to rent. So now she’s down to about $7000. A person can live in $7000 month after housing costs…

Except this is a problem that occurs on a LOT of GM cars on autocross and track conditions. Track conditions are definitely something that cars like the CTS-V and Camaro SS/ZL1 can experience. For some reason, GM side curtain airbags seem to go off quite a bit in non-accidents. There are a ton of forums posts and…