I’ve wanted one of those forever I just never do it
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denuvo confirmed for wrc apparently
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Well, they know how to make the best of their investment, and what better way than to make a bunch of your core audience sit and wait instead of embracing your product?
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Catching up with SuperGT season 2023 atm (which you can do so as well:
if you don’t mind OV w/o subs, but since this series has iconic teams/cars, it’s easy to grasp what’s going on, also helped by jenglish terms) and round 4 is my recommendation of this season so far:
rain throwing curveballs multiple times during the race, all kinds of strategy playing out in the closing stages, that’s why people love tintop+multi-class racing 
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OK, OK, OT:
managed to also see one of these in RL today:
that last snap should be blurred, because it is such a NSFW pic, but behold the glory of a beautiful rear end 
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quality journalism from The Guardian (not meant snarky, i promise, but genuinely surprised that someone felt this was worth being featured:
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VW Tiguan Review
The first “modern car” I’ve driven in about a decade. My Honda Fit was the first car I ever owned with electric window winders and that’s about as modern as I’ve gotten until now. I rented a Nissan Crossover once and drove that around and found it mostly comfortable.
The car was comfortable to drive. I didn’t feel like it’s size was a drawback or that it weighted too much. at the same time it had decent enough “handling” for Virginia backroads. It got good gas milage. My only complaints were that the car wasn’t responsive enough to accelerations. There was a second or so of lag between stomping my foot down and it actually going somewhere. I am used to dropping a gear to get into the optimal rev range in my honda fit, but not having to worry about gears made the drive a lot more pleasant.
now for my complaints, which are the vehicle’s many “automatic” systems. Automatic lights were one less thing to think about and so I forgot about it. The automatic wipers were such a pain because it’s “on” or “off” for them and they would go at random speeds, which was maddening. The car will automatically stop the engine at stoplights, and so you feel it chug on when you stomp on the gas again. Slightly annoying, but it saves gas and idling a car engine is wasteful, so I’m not against it.
The car’s gauge cluster and infotainment system sucked and is the prime example of software creeping into hardware. Instead of a nice dial the car shows a number that is your speed, and this number has like a fucking reflection and is framed in a blue gradient background, so it’s nominally readable but looks too “pretty”.
In order to use the radio, since there is no aux jack anymore, someone paired their phone to the car’s system. This was fine to play Spotify music, but then the car’s HUD would flash notifications for that person’s phone. We got multiple discord pings for a Final Fantasy chat room during the drive, and someone could use the infotainment system to send a reply via voice to text.
Then there is modern GPS which I fucking hate. I am a freak who will spend 10 minutes googling directions, then writing down which turns to take and which exit, then memorizing it or referring to it during the drive. We did not have time for this during the drive, but GPS causes a bunch of tiny little problems like “what exit am I looking for?” since you can count up or down to an exit and know when to get over. Or which lane to be in for an upcoming turn (left or right? Left exit or right exit?) so without these I am just reacting to the GPS directions. Getting turned around or missing an exit on a trip is totally normal and a part of navigating an unfamiliar area, so I embrace the little diversions.
Our car also had a “low coolant warning” light go on as we got into the steeper backroads of PA, which I attribute to an air bubble in the system triggering the low level warning when we went downhill. The beeping would make most people lose their shit, it was loud and terrifying and makes it like you should pull over and call somebody, but the car’s temp gauge was steady so I ignored it.
I couldn’t figure out the car’s aircon system, it would blast heat in my face and say it was on “Low” and at one point it was so hot so we rolled the windows down, then the car put a “roll up your windows to get better gas milage” message on the dashboard that wouldn’t go away. I’m like “come on man”
All in all a decent car.
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Is it a real gauge? Or is it one of those ones that goes from “cold” to “okay” to “blown headgasket”?
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it’s like 6 or so LEDs along a H ------- C label, so you could tell if it was cold, hot, or in the middle. After it warmed up the gauge cluster didn’t move so I kept driving it. Thankful that volkswagen afforded me that much information instead of just yelling at me the whole time.
I did have a temp gauge go all the way to red, and thats when I was driving around my MR2 for the first time, IDK if the coolant had ever been changed in that thing. It’s been fine ever since replacing it. If anything it runs cold
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That’s good they give you a range!
I appreciate that my GR Corolla’s gauge pack shows the actual temperature of the oil and coolant in Fahrenheit.
My Miata has two “idiot” gauges for oil pressure and coolant. They look real, but the oil pressure one just sits in the same spot no matter what indicating “yep, there’s pressure”, and the coolant one sits in the middle unless you’re basically fucked.
I liked how my Mazda 2 just had two lights for coolant temp. A blue “cold” light and a red “hot” light. You waited for the blue one to turn off before romping on it, and if you ever see the red light, that aluminum head is probably already warped.
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Oh. Neat!
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Yeah, came totally out of left field this morning! Excited to reinstall it!
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Beam.NG got VR support added? Neat!
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apparently doesn’t run fullspeed on a 4090
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Toyota GR Corolla Review
I love this stupid little car. The engine is incredibly unrefined. A 3-cylinder is unbalanced by design I suppose. It’s coarse and vulgar and shaky. They had to use liquid filled motor mounts to keep the NVH at bay.
The transmission is satisfyingly clunky and shifts are heavy. Sometimes you hear those gears slot into place. Clutch engagement happens very high up in the pedal travel. I’ve stalled it twice. Once was me accidentally trying to start in 3rd gear. The second time was on a ridiculously steep hill when I decided to try to let the hill assist help me out (fuck the hill assist).
Toyota wasn’t afraid of letting the engine and turbo make the noises they will naturally make. There’s wastegate chatter. There’s turbo flutter if you drive it a certain way. There’s no artificial sound piped in. The middle pipe in the three-tipped exhaust setup has a valve that stays open below 2500 RPM then closes then opens back up around 4000 or so. Supposedly this is to reduce backpressure to help it make the extra power they added vs. the GR Yaris version.
Despite the coarseness, the engine is very playful. I’m still not out of the break-in period, but it feels like it WANTS hard abuse. The harshness has a strange smoothness to it as the RPMs climb.
There’s a really weird “texture” to the engine note when engine braking that happens around 3000RPM and below. It’s like nothing I’ve heard from a car. Almost alien.
The brakes squeal very loudly when I come to a stop in my carport. Apparently that’s just life with big ass performance brakes. They’re bigger than the GR Supra’s brakes lol.
The 5-4 downshift is kinda tricky. I miss it quite a bit.
NOBODY gives this car a second look. It’s just a black Corolla. I love that!
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is the civic type-r supposed to look like a gamer mouse
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i love this website
i dont know where to post it
here seems good
the way the cars bounce up and down excitedly when you mouse over them is precious
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loving the placeholder thumbnail
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Quick, how can you make even the most die-hard french floatyboaty-soapbox fanboy turn away in disgust from your increasingly bland products?
Woah … that’s … good.
Or, rather, jeez why do you feel like bringing an F-117 to a knife fight
Well, time to see if lingscars does have some old Cit for me …
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