Bad grades don’t guarantee failure.

Good grades don’t guarantee success - but they make it easier.

To further complicate things, sometimes passengers are disallowed from bringing hot beverages on the plane for fear they’ll be used as a weapon. <3 this world.

This is a car article. You’ve just specifically requested this story not be told because you didn’t like the person it’s about.

Miata: flexier body, less power, shorter wheelbase and well known to be worse at drifting, more of a hassle to do hipo engine swaps...

What exactly does it do better? Give you sunburn?

Full disclosure: I own a Miata, but I want an S-chassis.

Thanks for clarifying.

Congratulations, you’re a bad person!

You don’t belong in a welcoming community like Jalopnik.

Eww.

So don’t read about them.

What you’re really asking is for journalists to pretend such people don’t exist because you can’t handle the real world.

Grow up, or shut up. Your choice.

I’m not sure it would have mattered either way.

Should I sell my 30 year old Volvo to boost my savings account?

Yes, this is excellent.

This is excellent journalism. Props for sticking with the story and getting the real truth.

I wish I was the kinda guy that could just be like “Oh, the V12 ain’t quite what you need? Yeah, no problem bro, we’ll whip up a better one, stay by the phone.”

Shows what I know! Thanks for the info.

You also gotta get the old ones out in the first place, which takes EFFORT.

Torches, presses, screw-thread contraptions... it ain’t easy.

Oh, it’s great to do! It’s just not cheap.

That and wages haven’t been going up for the average person for like, 20-30 years. All the wealth from productivity gains are going to the top end of town.

This alone is why I believe we’ve seen sportscars dying off. The working class is becoming the working poor.

Diesel engines don’t have a throttle butterfly. This engine apparently has a “kill switch” butterfly to block airflow but it failed.

GTA Online has been broken for ages.

The Hydra was bad enough; they’ve gone ten levels higher since then, and for the last few years, you can’t get by at all without spending hundreds of dollars on Shark cards.

Miatas have a stiff chassis now?!?

Jaysus, have you actually driven a Miata? Great cars, but stiff they are not.

What are we looking at here?