at least it’s smiling when it bumps off a pre-teen the driver can’t see
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Emotional support vehicles/blue collar cosplay.
Also Conservative youtubers with screeds about how out of touch woke rich city liberals are ruining the country are ALWAYS filmed in their $200k detached heated/air conditioned “garage” with an $80k sparkling clean brand new truck behind them.
I am currently searching for a new 2023 Chevy Bolt EV because we need a second car due to my new work requirements and GM will pay for a level 2 charging station install, and taking $7,500 off the top makes it a pretty good deal. Also the 2016 Sonic Turbo is still my favorite car I’ve ever owned and the weight/size/HP ratio of the Bolt seems pretty similar…
It seems like EVs may be the only way to get a hothatch in the very near future, though for a lot of hatch drivers I expect the lack of manual transmission in EVs will be a dealbreaker, but with Mazda, VW, and even Mini dropping manuals in the next few years it’s not like there are a lot of options even in the ICE space for manual transmissions any more.
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The bolt is slick! I would get one in black to look as pedestrian as possible.
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in Sonic Blue, however, also quite cool:
just look how it pops against ze French Luxo-Barque, mon dieu 
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n.b.
corrrrect, that’s ze Yurop versione a.k.a Ampera-E (or other random spelling/marketing conventions i wouldn’t be able to decipher by accidente), and my brother is quite happy with it, aside from high(er) driving position due to 
-skateboard a lot of fun to be had, wheelspin starts included.
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The Cybertrucks crashing pic is AI I’m fairly sure, mainly because they have a hard enough time keeping those panels straight during normal-ass use.
I can kind of feel like I’m going to cling to having a car that’s like 90s-00s, beat to hell, relatively easy to maintain/keep on the road. Just don’t like modern cars. They feel like they’re trying too hard to make being in a car a nice place to be. It’s not nice! It won’t be nice!
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Re: Rivians I’m really into the newly announced Rivian R3X
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Me too; though they are still three years away, if it’s true that the R3 will basically be a high riding hatchback and have an MSRP under $40, that puts it in competition with stuff like the Chevy Blazer. Very cool.
Also I’ve worked with supply to Rivian and some of their tier 1 / tier 2 suppliers and they generally have their shit together in ways that Tesla and even legacy automakers like GM and Stellantis (the worst of the worst) don’t. Given their production is many times smaller than those others, so I’ll be interested to see how they hold up as they ramp up, but from what I’ve seen from a supply chain side I think they should be well positioned to produce a mass market vehicle.
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so it is almost June again, i.e. time for Le Mans Actioné:
needless to say, Le Mans has been all about
Hypercars since beginning of last year, so of course i would go straight for the 'merican cousin of it and trial an LMDh to benchmark two games that turn up the hype to train for Le Mans:
Rennsport vs Le Mans Ultimate — The Battle for June
Rennsport:
Supposedly stole code, weird ESL-wannabe-league shenanigans, early access, a handful of cars only. but, i don’t care about any of that, i care about racing, fast. Game is a bit bitchy about track limits, and curbs unsettle the car significantly, huh OK. Doesn’t have Le Mans tho, so we use Spa Francorchamps to bench this against —
Le Mans Ultimate:
by the RFactor2 people iirc? — with good pedigree then, official licensed product with all the players from 2023 league™. Also early access. Nephew has 21:9 ultrawide monitor thing, so i expect single digits r— looks pretty even on my VEGA64, HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?
OK, trackside is a bit PS2 style at times, all’s right with the world. Feeling better right off the bat, but the cars turn competitive laps right from the start, this is going to be tough:
Rennsport dictates the car and track, Porsche 963 at Spa:
that … isn’t going fast, me is to blame.
LMU:
looks good.
drives better.
Has quantum-teleporting LMP2s
(actually no it doesn’t, taking screenshots the old fashioned way does this, but i love this effect 
)
and it has Sebring. And Le Mans. And dynamic Weather, And P2s. And GT-Cars. And all the other Hypercars. Even the rear-wing-less Peugeot, that is more than a handful on Sebring, as my nephew confirmed last night. In short: IT IS BETTER, period. Improved my horrible Rennsport-lap (staying away from curbs at any cost) in LMU to a meager still-five-seconds-off Colin Kolles Vanderwellwallwallwells, which exist solely to drive home the point that you, the player, are not good enough to be here (no they don’t, it is just that due to their real world performance, they are a good bench for if you cannot match their time, you are bottom-of-the-barrel material. So am I atm! 
)
More to come after second round of testing LMU, because Rennsport has been shelved for the time being!
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I miss China…
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second day, second time:
Nürburgring Nordschleife on Assetto Corsa Competitione:
A nice, but sometimes a bit narrow version of the 'Schleife, but then we are talking GT3-spec machinery here!
Aston Vantage, GT3:
Nephew loads a base setup, giving me onboard-view, off I go (not literally, for once, but not for long 
). Second lap was more conservative, to counterbalance the inbuilt tendency of the setup to rotate on braking, even before thinking about turn-in. 8’54.sth, handed off wheel to nephew, who turned in a first lap with one off-track excursion (8’33.x), before improving to a 8’27.x.
Good times!
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Not sure if this is coincidence or deliberate marketing effort, but if my non-existent french is good enough for almost nothing, then at least i can spot that the Citroën ëC3
pronounciatîon would/could/should(?) read (considering the trema and with 3==trois)
Ci-tro-en e-Ce-Tro-ah
Gotta confirm that with my colleagues at work, but this would be the first time the ë for their ëlectric brand paying off 
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Oh my god my heart rate is elevated
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craving some niché interest motorsport live streaming?
Look no further, a Honda Fit mixing it up with a Skyline GT-R R35 gets my Thumbs Up 
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John Davis ASMR
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Today I saw a Porche 917 getting a brake job
Apparently the rear brake master cylinder is a British part. I would have expected Bosch! Also I guess Porche 917s have separate master brake cylinders front and rear?
This alfa is fucking beautiful, check out the color coordinating leather on the exhaust
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