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I’ve owned both. Currently rocking an 05 Mazdaspeed Miata (the only factory turbo’d MX5). Previously had a 2000 AP1 S2000. The Honda was the best driver’s car I’ve ever driven. I regret selling it every day. However the Mazda came in at a price point where I didn’t feel bad about dropping in a roll bar and new suspension to facilitate track use. I feel much better about flogging a $10K whip around a circuit than the Honda, which was pristine and worth much more. Still, in a perfect world, I’d have room for both AND an air cooled 911 in my garage. I think you’re right about good driver’s cars going away. One only has to spend a few minutes browsing Bring a Trailer to realize that prices of good analogue machines are only going up. Get those classics while you can and hold on to em!

Will somebody please report CH for posting blatant pornography on BODN?

I think this is peak “Florida Man”.

Just watched it. Thought it was great. Not necessarily the most original storyline. Definitely cheesy in parts. But thoroughly enjoyable. Hot tip: stay past the credits and listen to John Legend sing “she’s your queen to be”. It’s hilarious and stunningly good at the same time.

Hello? Ever been to an Italian chow hall? Their deployed kitchens are the shit! I say the Italians are absolutely indispensable to the nutrition and morale of any NATO fighting force. Just tell them to not bother with the weaponry and focus on bringing good pasta, cappuccino, and vino to the fight!

Dude, hope you and the Republican Party come through this tumultuous time better and stronger. FWIW, I think the Democrats are facing their own rift between their more traditional elements and the extremist end. Hopefully we can push past all the drama and get back to the good governance the American people expect and deserve.

Thank this guy.... FWIW I agree that this will likely get way more play than it deserves & you guys shouldn’t have to take time out from hacking the mish to do CBTs de jour. Just saying images like this don’t help the cause.

Can we maybe keep one thread here a little more light hearted? Jesus, you’d think we were debating abortion or something. This whole thread is all about opinions. You might disagree and that’s fine. But “little girl”? “You had no friends growing up”? Lighten up Francis.

Scudaria Cameron Glickenhaus is the next great American manufacturer I have my eye on right now. They will be competing for overall victory at Le Mans against Ferrari in the near future in the new top spec hypercar class. Their entry looks like pure sex compared to the recent prototype entries in WEC racing. This’ll be a real underdog vs Ferrari rivalry (unlike powerhouse Ford taking them on in the 60s).

Unfortunately, I think chances are good that you’re right.

For the electric guys, there are a few companies doing some interesting things this is the Ace from an upstart manufacturer called Alpha. It’s supposed to resemble some of the lightweight sports coups from the 60s. There are also several options to resto-mod old cars to electric propulsion. There’s some really cool VW conversions out there.

Really looking forward to driving the new BRZ. Don’t even have any interest in a future turbo. That car has the potential to be a great do it all daily/autocross/hpde car. Even in winter, with the lsd and a good set of snows it should still make a great daily.

Ha! Love it. Like I said, room for all tastes & preferences in the car hobby. That’s a great looking vette. Did you get that when you applied to the original Mercury program? 🤣 I keed, I keed. Seriously that’s a cherry ride.

That looks good. The Porsche purists will be all over you for that, but fuckem. The great thing about the car hobby is that there’s room for all tastes. I’ve never been a muscle car guy or understood lowrider culture, but I have a ton of respect for the hard work and creativity that goes into any good car build. If I was still in SoCal, I’d say let’s meet up at a cars and coffee somewhere.

Air cooled 911s are such a perfect example of accessible performance and really interesting on-limit handling characteristics. I would love to have one, but the prices have absolutely gone through the stratosphere & I can’t justify owning one & beating the shit out of it. Should I ever win the powerball, a Singer 911 would be one of my first buys.

Better? Maybe. But it it more fun? If you’ve never been to the website “Bring a Trailer” go take a look. Sure there’s plenty of high horsepower stuff on there but there’s also a plethora of BMW E30 M3s and 2002s, Alfa GTVs, old Porsche Boxters, Miatas, Datsun 510s, etc. Point being: a lot of people are realizing you don’t need a ton of horsepower to have fun. In fact, modern high horsepower cars can sometimes be far less fun than an older, less powerful sporting machine. Example: Dodge Hellcat. While I have to give it to Dodge for actually building such a beast, you are in license revocation territory in about 3 seconds and at the top of second gear. You just can’t use the car’s performance on the street. I’ve got a turbo NB Miata that’s been built as fast road/occasional track car. Go ahead and judge all you want about about how it’s a pussy car. I’ll see you at the autocross. 😎 It’s plenty fast enough to have fun on the street & my running costs are a fraction of what they would be in a modern 911 or M3. Tires are cheap, brakes are cheap, suspension is cheap, and if I bin it at the corkscrew at Laguna Seca, I’m out a tenth of the cost of a used GT3. $100K 5000lb Tesla as a performance/track car? No thanks. $30K Bolt as a daily driver alongside a weekend toy? Yeah, I could probably be down with that.

Just not the same thing as knowing there are cylinders and valves and camshafts all whirring in reaction to little explosions and making a lovely sound while they’re at it. While electric is looking more and more like the future, and my daily will likely be all electric sooner rather than later, there will always be a spot in my garage for something with three pedals and a gas tank. The automobile didn’t kill the horse. It just turned it into a plaything (for the most part—-depends on where you live and what you do). The same will be true of the fossil fuel-electric transformation.

Here is a spot where our opinions diverge. There are several reasons why I think schools should be priority one when it comes to “reopening” the country: 1. Our kids are suffering. I can tell you first hand that the level of education being provided by online learning is nowhere near what kids are getting in school. Older/more mature kids might be doing a bit better, but my 10 year old was getting almost nothing from zoom school. It’s nearly impossible for a teacher to vie for a child’s attention through a computer screen. Aside from the academic deficit, kids are mission out on all of the social and interpersonal development that is arguably even more important than the academic part of school. All of this has taken a terrible toll on kids, as evidenced in the worst possible outcome: a huge increase in suicides. 2. Our society is dependent on the school day. The “one parent doesn’t work and plays homemaker” model is no longer the norm. A majority of families either have both parents working, or are single parent households. Don’t want to get into a morality argument. That’s just the way it is. Most parents depend on school for a majority of the year to make this work. Online school and limited in person school time places a tremendous logistical strain on families trying to make ends meet. In many families, both parents work out of necessity and things are tight. Now they are in the position where they have to either pay for child care that they can’t afford or may not even be available due to demand, leave young children at home unsupervised, or have one parent quit their job and risk not making rent/bills. Sorry, but the economy will not fully reopen until schools do. 3. The vast majority of studies indicate schools can reopen safely with relatively simple mitigation measures in place. We don’t need to wait for all teachers to be vaccinated (although that option is rapidly becoming available to them). We don’t need to rip out and replace the HVAC systems in every school. We simply need to make sure the kids are masked (hand them out at the entrance if they show up without one), and put a little extra space between them (I understand this particular requirement will be difficult in many districts). Bringing kids back into classrooms will never be perfectly safe and I understand teachers’ concerns. However, many of us have been going into work on a daily basis in industries arguably less critical than primary education. We have all been dealing with less than perfect safety measures. If the guy in the Amazon warehouse making sure people get their sex toys on time is considered critical, surely are teachers are too. It’s time for them to get back to work so the American economy can make its comeback and so our kids don’t fall even further behind.

Sounds like a nightmare. Hope your damage is limited. Regardless, if your wife is anything like mine, you’re going to be hearing about how things only go wrong when you’re on the road for a long, LONG time! 🤣

Thought he had a pretty good interview on Bill Maher’s show that aired Friday. Maher tried to get him to bite off on a “religion is bullshit” tangent, but Kinzinger did a good job staying on the topic at hand. He certainly seems to be finding his niche as a more traditional Republican. I sincerely hope he represents the future of the party.

All for it. Make Americans from all walks of life come together and learn how to work with and exchange ideas with one another. This is how you learn that your fellow Americans are not your enemy and one of the reasons I believe military veterans make more effective lawmakers. I personally wouldn’t care if that service is military or something like peace corps, forest service, etc. Just as long as no one gets coddled and everyone gets the same treatment. That leads to maybe the biggest issue: there couldn’t be ANY loopholes. Everybody gets to do a couple years of service. No exceptions for senators’ kids. No buy outs for rich kids. No special rules based on whatever personal pronouns you prefer. It would have to be absolutely equal treatment for everybody. Maybe offer some special incentives for those willing to do a longer stint along the lines of the GI Bill. We have got to find a way to bring this country closer together and achieve some buy in to what should continue to be the society that is the envy of the rest of the world.

https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2021/02/11/weve-become-parodies-of-ourselves-california-democrats-bemoan-sf-school-board-1362846 City is pushing back... Just as the majority on the right are “center right”, the majority on the other side are “center left” Hopefully both sides can make a little less room for their fringes.

Looking forward to this one. The fact that they brought back so many of the original actors (and multiple roles for Murphy and Hall) bodes well I hope.