My sister followed 2003-2005 Formula 1 season closely. As the biggest petrolhead in the house, I was beaten by her to the remote control every Sunday afternoon. But once or twice, my mother, who is very traditional Asian mom quipped about woman following men’s sports closely is not normal. She rather have her watch…

Watch Top Gear, Jeremy and James May picked the Trumpchi and Roewe (Chinese Rover) as their favourite of the bunch, and this was from 2012.

I have been feeling the same way as most people here about Chinese cars. But every day you learn new things about China, including how much they care about their consumers. Now, electric cars, self driving cars, and their so-called “internet cars” are all electronically controlled right? Well, that’s just another…

Basically the same as what I said in another article. I’m glad you agree with this, Justin. Even those pilots who use “autopilots” are meticulously trained and re-tested periodically. Us? Not so much.

When successfully idle, the spinner in the Rolls Royce will look like 3 thin yellow circle lines. In GE, they will be one big white dot in the middle and a thin white circle surrounding it. While Pratt & Whitney with its off-centre white dot, will look like a thick circle spinning.

A gym consists of many different types of men. From the alpha-hyper sexual one to the reclusive emo omega one. I met one guy who has a picture of naked woman as his smartphone wallpaper. And I thought this is a bit shameless, indecent, like his balls is always on testosterone that he needs such everybody-can-see…

After Hulk Hogan case, why are you risking this?

Discussions like this “car platforms” and all detailed shit does not enter CEO’s room when she made this decisions. They all just look at sales figures by Opel and begone.

Probably there were not a lot of competitions back then in Indonesia. In USA, the whole low cost airline business started around 1970s, we have just begun having that in 2000s. Indonesia is an extreme and ironic case. During the early 2000s, the ticket price can even go as low as IDR 250,000 or US$25 (almost as much…

What is so hard with accelerating from 100 to 160 km/h in a straight line by keeping the engines at near redline before shifting?

Read the part where I and my friend experimented with his real Impreza WRX STi (of course us or our parents can’t afford Ferraris). The video game is more consistent with the real car instead of Tommi Mäkinen’s Subaru-sponsored Nordschleife stint.

As a guy who work at the forefront of institution that defines capitalism, I think economically, we have gone far too right. That’s the reason of the rise of current wave of nationalism-socialism. Too much of the income goes to the fat cat investors whose value they create to the business is just the money they put in…

I first noticed the bullshit from Subaru Impreza WRX STi video as driven by Tommi Mäkinen. The thing blasted through the last straight before braking into carousel at about 160-170 km/h. It is impossible even to do at Need for Speed Shift, let alone to replicate with souped up Supra in Assetto Corsa. So I timed how…

Indonesia has been using OV-10 and Super Tucanos to combat rainforest jungle insurgencies. The thing is perfect because of its long loitering time and all sorts of rag-tag frontline munitions it can drop on the targets. You can market them as “battle proven”.

I don’t know about US or other countries. But in Indonesia, that’s how much you’ll make in a month back in the days.

The R&T tested the car against the M3 (the 4 door one, not M4) around some American track named Chuckwalla Valley Raceway. The Giulia Q is only marginally faster than the BMW. Not as bombastic as the Nurburgring time difference. You can find it on Youtube. Complete with some note and comments from the racing driver…

Modern cars have that seatbelt height adjuster. You can lower or increase the height of the belt to prevent decapitation.

You might as well say, manufacturer’s performance badge.

Some of top cheap car trims in third world countries are poser stuff anyway.

That is a trip across the continent. $ 300 is around IDR 5.000.000 in my currency. With your American salary of $7/hour, that should be quite dirt cheap.