Since no one else said it, I nominate Initial D: Third Stage. But also the franchise as a whole. Third Stage is a movie, though, so it counts. Basic premise is still the same, local punk with an AE86 is a course specialist who spanks everyone on his mountain. But now he’s gotten a massive engine upgrade and needs some…

I know I’m supposed to take the purist line and defend this car. I’m supposed to say the lighter, lower-powered, smaller-wheeled version is the real driver’s choice because of better weight distribution and less unsprung mass and all...

“A restaurant uses ingredients”

I love this car but I get so sick of listening to people complain about the wing and looks. If you don’t like it then get a different car. You guys are missing the point. This is to make a statement. That Honda is still likes crazy and is not a boring accord machine. This is the fun wild one in the family. 

• Can I help you, sir?

Having a stick is like having more than 300hp in a car. Yeah, nobody needs it, and wanting it is irrational, and having less power provides a whole host of benefits from increased fuel economy and reliability, and reduced costs for wear items like tires. But some people just like power.

Total non-engineer here with some not-even-a-back-of napkin-calc doubts: at what weight (and no significant aero accoutrement such as this here Donkervoort) — assuming best case scenario for street-car suspension design — CAN a car even hit 2G of lateral force?

I think Chapman would be far more repulsed by the off-brand, also-ran hypercar powered by 1000+ lbs of lithium-ion batteries that Lotus’s Chinese overlords are ramming through than a carbon fiber Lotus 7 with a bigger engine...

To be frank - I don’t think they should be doing any racing, anywhere.  This is quite literally the organized transportation of vectors between one jurisdiction and another - that’s absolutely unnecessary and frivolous.  Put this season away and start planning for 2021

This is jalopnik, where knowing the difference between power and torque gets you fired.  There’s a reason this place leans so heavily on EE to explain the technical bits.

It can’t do power multiplication. Yes, torque multiplication - no power multiplication.

What? Why?

I love how Bubba & Son are hassling the minicat driver. “I thought you was an operator!” and telling him how to do his job. Not shown is the part where they insisted he put the rock in their tiny truck, and shouted down his objections. I’m sure the operator was grinning ear-to-ear the rest of the day.

Sorry, not buying it. This was likely the safest time this could have been done. As you said, hardly anyone is on the road. I’m not buying the Alex Roy argument either, “They could have hit a truck carrying precious medical supplies”. Well, yeah but I’ll bet that’s statistically pretty low. I think most of the…

Normally I’d be all “good luck, godspeed, etc. etc.”, but...BUSINESS INSIDER??!!! I can just see the kinds of articles her corporate overlords will have her writing now:

I don’t disagree!

I hate to come down even 1% on the side of coal rollers, but let he who has never modified a vehicle cast the first stone here.

Freevalve runs off of air pressure, which is generated by an engine-powered pneumatic pump. You have to turn the engine over to get the air pressure to open the valves. Chicken/egg...

I’m really surprised at the power output of such a small battery. 15kWh at 800V means it’s only an 18.75 Ah pack. At the 820KW rated max electric only power, that means the system is running at about 1,025 amps (itself a wildly large number), and that the battery is discharging at 1025/18.75 = 54.6C, which itself is a…

I don’t see any sort of accumulator on that pneumatic compressor. How many rotations does it do before the valves actually have enough pressure to open? I’m guessing not many but I’m still curious.