quick feet

How do you blip the throttle if you’re braking?

I bet Audi wishes they had vehicle logs to show the unintended acceleration fiasco in the 80's was primarily similar driver error.

If your truck is limited to 67mph, WTF are you doing trying to pass one going 65mph!!! That’s why people get frustrated with 18 wheelers. You just set up a rolling road-block.to go 2mph faster, while a line of cars piles up that could be going 10mph faster.

Stickshifts and safetybelts,
Bucket seats have all got to go.
When we’re driving in the car,
It makes my baby seem so far.
I need you here with me,
Not way over in a bucket seat.
I need you to be here with me,
Not way over in a bucket seat.
But when we’re driving in my Malibu,
It’s easy to get right next to you.
I say, “Baby,…

That’s a photo of an SV650S; the SV650 is naked, and with a more upright position, arguable a better starter bike:

I prefer my car-cooked meals fLambo’d:

Sorry, couldn’t resist!

That laptop is downright modern compared to what I think of as an ancient compaq:

You can shift the torque rearward with AWD, but the A4 still has a lot of its weight on the front end! My DD is a B6 A4 (Avant Quattro 6MT) and I love it, but it’s simply not as balanced as FM/RWD configuration with near 50/50 weight distribution.

Because when you’re driving you’re hyper focused on the inertial reference frame out the windscreen, and there is no ocular-vestibular mismatch between your inner ear and the visual real world (the primary cause of motion sickness that rhobere mentioned) As a passenger, you may spend more time looking at gauges in the…

... that should cost much less than $100. You’re not serious are you? He got scammed:

That was my fist thought as well... perfect set-up for an episode of the new Top Gear:

You keep discussing turbos like motors from a decade or two ago, where step on the throttle, and... wait for it... OK, now here’s the boost. I agree that that behavior is out of place in a luxury car. But have you driven a modern turbo with all the goodies (direct injection, dual scroll, variable timing, etc...)? In…

There is a replacement for displacement: boost. “Easy torquey-powerband” is exactly what (modern) turbos provide. With direct injection and dual scroll, midsized turbo 6's can make plenty of smooth torque (>>300 lb-ft) just off idle with imperceptible lag. This is just where you want the torque in a luxury car. I…

If a modern Bentley isn’t ‘old school’ enough, they have a long history with forced induction:

I would! My daily driver/utility vehicle is an A4 Avant 6MT getting up in miles. When it comes time to replace it, an S3 or RS3 would be an option if, and only if, it has a hatch. Audi won’t give is a proper Avant on the A4 chassis (and it’s too big for my preference now anyway). A jacked-up all-road or Q is not what…

“666 horsepower”

“Next car design element to eliminate: windows”

Variation on Outcome 2: Get the new STi, and use the old WRX as a donor to build a Factory Five 818! With the shape it’s in, you could get a lot of $$$ for all the parts that are not needed for the 818 build. The heart of your old favorite will live on, but in a better weekend/track car than the old wagon could ever…