From a miata owner... nice car!

The majority of careers that require (or are seriously enhanced by) higher learning should allow a person to pay off their debts in due course. The issue isn’t that people should choose more profitable degrees, the issue is that education is too expensive. If profitability were the main criteria, who would study…

It’s really incredible the lengths that conservatives will go to for control, isn’t it? That is a tough situation no doubt.

I would encourage you to read the entire New Republic article, because those kinds of situations are discussed. The article doesn’t actually come out for blue state secession, by the way. As with so many other think pieces, some editor has clearly given it a very zingy title in the ultimate quest for clicks. The…

Aren’t you making a lot of assumptions about sour duck here? People don’t always just get born and stay where they are in America. Here in Chicago, I have met many people who are from very conservative states in the midwest, and came here specifically because they wanted to be a part of a more socially progressive and…

It really feels like you ignored the spirit of the New Republic piece in order to make your own generalizations about the “secession-lite” arguments people are kicking around. Baker says explicitly in his piece that he’s not talking about actually seceding, but rather that in an age of twisted news and propaganda, the…

Just great work and a great write-up. Not everyone will get it, but I do. They don’t make cars like this now, and the closest thing to it would cost far, far, far more than 12k. Plus you have kept this beautiful thing on the road and now you’ve bonded with it. Bravo, sir.

nooooooooooooowwwwww

No! Press on! You’ve gone too deep and now the engine must sing to save you!

the quik-e-mart is real D’OH

Thank you! And yeah like you said, it’s POSSIBLE to replicate for cheap if you are god’s own gift to fabrication, but people like that are more legendary and elusive than 1/4 mile timeslips for “my buddy’s camaro”.

Nice find! Feels like build threads should always go along with these posts when available. Not always easy to find, of course, and I think graverobber already does a good job with this. But that additional context is awesome.

This is the must begrudging NP I have ever given. It is a nice price for SOMEONE. Certainly not me. But the work looks very good, everything seems tight and clean, details like gauges were not overlooked which usually bodes well for the rest of the build. If you have used WRX money and you want something different,…

where’s the ADD MOAR STARZ button?

Needs excitable Japanese announcers/driver voiceover to be perfect, and somehow some in-car footage of the drivers sweating and their eyes growing wider.

But this is really great.

Wow. Just wow.

Keep at it. You’re already too deep now. Stop trying to save decades old fasteners and then letting their destruction demoralize you. You know in your greasy heart of hearts that any fastener that sees any weather at all should be replaced on this thing. You know you need to rebuild that diff. You know anything that…

The top spec 911 comes with a manual again. Alpine is back. Alfa is back. Honda releases a 306HP Civic Type-R in the US. The new Miata is lighter than the last one. RUF just released a 700+hp car with a carbon fiber monocoque. Used 300HP V6 manual mustangs with IRS go for less than 20k. Gas is cheap. The most exciting…

Wow. You have to give it to Honda. They went there. This is aggressive and likely to be quite fast. Nothing seems watered down. And it’s not going to be a profit leader. They did this basically because they could, and because it’s awesome. I have to think that Mr. Honda would be proud. Would I buy it? No. But that’s…