the miata sticker
I probably wouldn’t have taken this one but there was a guy also taking a picture of the car and I wanted to copy him
Too good to be true, or did this really happen?
Hej, what’s this, a new FIA WEC race out in the wild?
If you want to get accustomed to the Hypercar field before Le Mans 24h, better start now!
i love seeing this but as a Fiat 500 driver these cars absolutely terrify me
if my wife and i get killed by a Cybertruck i will reincarnate solely for revenge rather than join the cosmos
that said, this is why i basically just drive the speed limit or a little above these days - need reaction time for all the psychos out there
Whatttttt, also Super GT has upped the ante and is uploading the races on ytube?
there’s no reason not to catch some good wheel banging this weekend!
Hattrick:
Re Fiat 500:
Didn’t know that there’s an Abarth 500e now!
yeah i would really, really love to own one of the 500 Hybrids, but they’re Europe only. the 500e is coming here but my 2012 still runs fine and only has 41k miles on it, so there isn’t really a good reason to get it until the charging infrastructure gets a lot better and the cost decreases.
my fear is that it’ll disappear from the market by that time lol. the only new Fiats i see around are there SUVs which seem dumb as hell imo. like if i were to get an SUV i’d probably go with the Alfa Romeo or something, if i insisted on Italian
that said, i saw a lot more 500s in NYC once the lockdown began and car prices were going nuts.
i want to like start a club or something
I am renting a car in Europe for a few days this month and I was surprised to find that if you’re getting an automatic it’s almost easier to get an electric – I think it’s due both to the fact that automatic transmissions were never as popular there in the first place, and that electric charging infrastructure has been adopted more widely.
I can drive a manual but like… it’s fun when it’s my motorcycle, it’s not fun when it’s a roadtrip in an unfamiliar place.
i honestly prefer driving a manual, and wanted one when i got the 500, but the deal on the AT was better, so…
that said, i basically learned how to drive manual on my first trip to Sicily lol. like my dad had “taught me” with his Geo Tracker, but i didn’t regularly drive it, so the concepts of how to drive were mostly theoretical.
it took my about 30 minutes to exit the parking lot of the rental place. and, let me tell you, those first couple days where i’d stall out in stop and go traffic
the Sicilians were not happy.
I learned how to drive stick just well enough to shuffle box trucks around in a truck yard (talk about manual transmissions that offer nearly no tactile feedback) and I have to say I have no desire to take that act out into the road.
Many things to talk about stick shifting, but the single thing to remember (which trainers don’t seem to teach pupils, for whatever reason):
Fast In, Slowly Out
(… 
double-entendre? yeah, me neither)
boring technical stuff
you want to disengage the gearbox from the driveline because of high rpms blabla, and that you wanna do fast. Select gear, disengage the clutch, what that does is connect the driveline to the wheels being driven, blablabla that’s why slowly is better (and avoids sudden clutch-biting hopping-and-spluttering).
Someone on them ytubes surely can explain that better (but with
boring technical stuff
, beware)
What drives me crazy is the (at least on those damn trucks) the line between fast/slow when letting up on the clutch pedal seems to be very very thin. Either nothing is engaging or I stall out. For some reason I had a much easier time shifting into reverse than first 
Mind you, never drove a truck with a manual transmission, and never want to (because as you said, biting point can be tricky/bitchy to predict) … at first i didn’t really like a spongy clutch, but learned to embrace it for what it is… but since i bought my auto box Citroën, never did miss the manual box in the last decade
There’s one of these that I cross paths with to and fro work.
I always remind myself that in 2024 Tesla managed to build a worse battery powered DeLorean that has just as many issues with rusting.
Rivians are like “what if Tesla had build quality?”
Then you see that they cost like a billion dollars.
It’s funny how pickup trucks are for the rich now. Why do people feel the need to flex like they’re working class in their $80+k luxo trucks?
I was stuck behind one on the road to hana in november
it was, to its credit, driving extremely capably for its size
they are much, much nicer than teslas. I don’t know who they’re for though.