The question isn’t can I quantify, the question is can you? You made a statement that your state’s adoption of CARB standards costs you money. I have requested that you provide data to back up your statement. You can’t or won’t. Asking me a bunch of questions doesn’t change that.

I would be astonished if you could quantify the “added expense” to the typical car-owning taxpayer of your state of residence, as a result of said state following CARB standards. I would be even more astonished if your financial analysis included the benefits of your state enjoying cleaner air due to adopting CARB.

You know what would be a cool article, I think? An overview of all the major auto racing series worldwide, coupled with the various means of watching those series. Include all the relevant acronyms and sanctioning bodies too. I’m a pretty avid MotoGP fan and I’m trying to get into open wheel and sportscar racing, but…

Yep. And the NA Miata is next. People always look at me like I grew third leg out of my face when I say this, but the NA Miata will get there. You used to be able to find clean, unscrewedwith examples of 90-93 1.6L cars for 3-4k all day. Those cars are 5-6k now. Some folks are trying to get ahead of the curve and are…

Reporting for duty.

Also - turbos actually DO stuff in small cars. Achieved boost for the first time on this build last night. It was... very, very fun.

People who talk all the time are going to be wrong sometimes. He’s still the closest thing we have to Carl Sagan. Maybe come for someone who isn’t an obvious net benefit on society?

Redline is amazing. I love it so much.

The fact that it’s not gritty, dark, or realistic is what MAKES the movie. God, save me from another gritty, dark realistic movie. Especially one based on a shiny, silly, totally funked out and unrealistic cartoon.

EXACTLY. I wrote a similar comment. Yes. Just let it flow, go with it, and it’s a helluva ride.

There are GM products in that sequence? The Ducatis were EVERYTHING to me. I could not see anything else but Trinity, the twins, and the Ducatis.

Actor here. Been in a bunch of student films. Wish they used plot devices 1/4 as good as even something as bad as Jupiter Ascending. The reality is that student films don’t have the kind of budget to have plots that can even be remotely compared to the things the Wachowskis do. In terms of budgets, you simply can’t…

The modern version of this movie, by the way, is Pacific Rim. Earnest as hell, way over the top, completely absurd, beautifully crafted, and if you give over to it and just go with it, immensely enjoyable. PR2 was similar.

Finally, some love for this unheralded and unfairly slagged off movie. I truly think this is a movie that people didn’t and still don’t get. Everyone is so used to sarcasm and obviously broken characters, and racing movies are supposed to be hardcore, full of hardcore, badass, manly RACING, that the concept of a…

I’m so glad I was between sips because it would’ve been all over the keyboard

A lot of the suggestions here are either already very expensive, or are so rare that there aren’t enough people who know what they are, making a price increase kind of difficult. For a car to “blow up” it needs to be in a sweet spot where enough got made and are still extant, but not too many. With all that in mind, I…

The automotive equivalent of the tv channel at the hotel that just has information about the hotel.

I love how chill Ricciardo looks in comparison to the usual “hot shoe drifter scares the shit out of some poor fuck” setup. Not even holding on to the car. Keeping his hands politely tucked in his lap. Giving the OK symbol. Agree that the MX5 isn’t the best drift car, but 4-rotor mazdas are always an instant NP in any…

came for this, thank you

They need to follow MotoGP and F1 and get a standalone streaming service, I think.

I’m actually on your side, dude. Toyota could give you a better car but they decided not to, for BS reasons. At least Mazda stuck a turbo on and sold the car at a reasonable price - and no major platform changes were required. I don’t really think we want to get into a pissing match on the MSM versus the BRZ - the…