1st: I’m going to be optimistic and say that manuals may not completely die, but will instead be relegated to a very small area of the market. At the moment you mainly buy a stick because you either want the cheapest car available (if it’s offered at all) or you want a performance machine. Once it becomes too…

So how different would a road 911 look/drive/feel if it had this engine placement?

1st: My parents lived in Cambridge a few years ago and saw most of North America’s Corolla production (and Rav4 I think) move along the regions train lines. If Toyota moves out completely, that’s going to be pretty significant for employment in the area.

Is this up in a YouTube playlist somewhere?

For sure. If/when I buy an R, I will be doing the Euro tail light mod.

I want one. It will be interesting what VW does with the tail lights, since we in North America only got bulbs and at this point it seems the only reason not to use LEDs is cost saving (you can get them pretty low in the market).

Discovered this earlier in the summer and blitzed all 13 available episodes in a weekend. It’s fantastic entertainment and their craftsmanship is top notch.

I think automakers are basically in the process of figuring out the balance point between displacement and turbocharging. Essentially they have to determine how often a given vehicle would be expected to have full power and size the engine such that the turbo is only needed for those moments. That likely means that…

Another case of “you should land on the downward slope”

Someday I hope to be in a position to be able to afford an extra car every year or less, for the winter. I’d call it the “Shitbox shuffle” and probably set a cap at around $5000 and just see what kind of interesting options are left.

The most impressive thing I get from this is that the Camry can do 125 mph.

I towed our school’s FSAE trailer to competition a few years ago and when we got back, I reversed it into its parking space after maneuvering a little and once that was done, one of the guys said, “normally we push it into the space by hand. No one’s parked it with a car before.” I was rather proud.

1st: My dad is a snapshot of that idea. At 65, he drove two different manual e90 3 series from 2005-2016 and then replaced it with an auto Audi Q3. The 3 series isn’t even a sports car so I can see how more people that age would want something more practical. My dad mentions ingress and higher seating positions as the…

It’s a good thing they added camouflage to that wing. I can almost tell it’s back there.

Is it bad that I want to try that moose maneuver in my own car? I drive in moose country a lot so fortunately I’ve only had to test it with squirrels

Cheers for a proper answer from the source

Yeah that’s an option, but as Hermann mentions, it specifically requires additional steps. Even Netflix now no longer allows VPNs, even if you’re connected from the same country your billing address is in.

It is, but only in the US

Yes, however it’s still only available in the US iTunes store.

If you’re an international fan, we need to somehow tell NBC that we want to watch this show, even if it costs money (probably). Matt mentioned on TST podcast that it’s basically up to NBC.