Part of me was surprised that neither of these mods was to a Macan, but then I realized that a Macan purchase is basically an admission that you can't even be bothered to be a poser.
I dunno. given that Porsche builds more SUVs than sports cars, I think the Macan owner is the one Porsche owner being most true to himself and to the brand.
One of the funniest automotive jokes ever was when a guy in a Mustang pulled up next to me at a light, caught my attention, looked down at my Lotus Elise and said: "Nice Celica!"
lol. That's pretty funny. I hope you then left him in your dust.
When I got my driver's license way back when, the only vehicle available to me was our battered 1978 Ford van, which had been a Purolator delivery vehicle and had seem some shit. I was at a stop light when someone in a kit car pulled up alongside me. (I don't recover which kit, some kind of old MG-looking thing.)
My buddy Neal just bought a McLaren. Even though his Ferrari-churning neighbor has honked at Neal’s wife for not speeding down their cul de sac, Neal dropped his garden tools to go meet the latest prancing horse. The neighbor greeted Neal with “Nice shoes”, which fetched him the response “Nice lease!”
Happy Father's Day to all to whom it applies. To those that it does not, if you are not a woman or under the age of 18 I highly recommend becoming one.
I am so jealous. About hitting the gym, not fucking the tinder sluts. I need to get some cardio or my doctor is going to kill me if the lack of cardio doesn't.
why don't you tell us, as surely you have some experience in this regard?
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(I apologize profusely for that remark. I tried to resist the opportunity you provided for it, and I could not. You are my friend, and I have no reason to be so mean, yet I was anyway.)
Somewhat surprisingly, squatting knee injuries are rare. Until you get to the level of (olympic) weightlifters that squat 5x a week and develop tendinitis from overuse and then injuries after that.
I call this jacked privilege. If you are jacked and lift heavy, you can dress like a Jack ass to the gym. It’s kind of fun. A juxtaposition to the self conscious lululemon and gym shark wearers that are identically dressed.
I’m going to stick up for the shift knob, which only reads as “917” to an extremely small subset of car nerds. To his tinder date it’s just a pretty break from carbon-look aluminum inlay custom laser-engraved whatever.
Though TBH when I make *my* list of cars that shouldn't have a driver's side airbag on them, it's going to include only cars with FIA-certified seats, cages, 6-point restraints and HANS. But hitting a stump at (if I'm reading the spreadsheet of the telemetry right) 42 mph and being briefly upside-down will do that to you.... #fuckSOFR
my friend dick irish had a lotus f3 wheel on his '58 t-bird, along with dunlop racing recaps and airplane landing lights for high beams. boy were they BRIGHT!
As our host has discussed at length, things are not cool, people are. Literally anything you or Jack Irish did would be cool by definition, up to and including putting this clown steering wheel in a VW mom-mobile (although we might question the choice in private).
I would say the steering wheel and shift knob are sacrilege. That GT3 car got raped just so an EV enthusiast can feel more "in touch". Get a real car with a stick.
"GT3 car got raped" -- hopefully he got it from the parts department
"Get a real car with a stick" -- Agreed with the sentiment, but taken literally, I'd prefer weirdos like this stick to abusing EV's like this rather than massacring a real cars worth owning!
He may need the GT3 wheel because some enterprising tuners figured out the Taycan/Audi eTron GT ECU coding, and now offer ~0.8 times a Tesla Plaid’s worth of hp in suitably equipped (“Turbo”) models.
airbagless wheels belong in a car with harnesses bent appropriately over a roll cage and anchored properly, poking through chairs proportioned for helmet usage, in a car intended for the track - and probably never belong in an aluminum autoimmolation device. There’s a lot wrong with this picture, too much to even get started
Part of the admittedly crappy joke is:
Which accelerates faster ?
The 5,192lb shopping cart with an ECU tune good for 800hp, or the GT3 cup actual race car? Who REALLY deserves to wear the wheel?
A little Father’s Day tribute to my late dad— Mr. John C. Ryan (he always used the “C”— Crawford, a family name that I unfortunately didn’t end up with).
Good guy. Funny. Down to earth, a realist. People liked him, more than he knew. He was never a miserable old cuss. He always said “Nobody likes a smart ass”. He got up every day, put on a suit and tie and went to work. When it was my turn; I did the same thing. He was proud of his son; and I was proud of him.
I knew a guy, let's call him Kevin because that was his name, that growing up I just thought well, that's normal. Took it for granted. Not realizing that he was in multiple 1%> categories. PhD? Check. Tier 2 operator? Sure why not? Generous to a fault? No, not exactly. Incredibly, almost Christlike in generosity, but so competent and detail oriented that unlike folk who neglect their obligations in their zeal to give he took care of everything.
Happy Fathers' Day to those that are bold. My daughter is a joy and my son is a challenge and I love to to push his buttons! My dad had 4 boys and a high pressure career, my mom must have been a saint. Growing up it just was normal, or so it seemed.
Nate we drove 67 Corsair’s and Nova’s growing up That had a crumple zone that went to the back seat. We survived. now all my old (1970’s) cars have, installed at the factory, color coordinated steering wheels. No air bags and narrow “a” pillars that do not block your sight line. I applaud the person that installed a real steering wheel not laden with explosives.
Lynn, survivorship bias is nonsense. I deplore the current safety first mentality that has permeated the culture of the United States and celebrate risk taking but only if it is clear-eyed.
I am not blind to the facts and am keenly aware that I am very lucky to have survived this long, the pain involved in serious collisions is no joke and for me is a life time thing, it (the pain) woke me up this morning but I still am willing to make the trade off .
FWIW, those tiny steering wheels make steering much harder unless you have good power steering .
anyway the steering wheel looks dumb with that brownish stripe at the top thats trying to act like the yellow steering wheel alignment indicator on a real race wheel (which even then is kinda tryhard) but made dumber becuase its barely a contrasting colour
the buttons are also dumb
that wooden shift knob might be the most overdone porsche thing i can think of and its even worse when people put it in non porsches. why are you trying to ape the detail of an older racing car in a vehicle so far removed from it? its stolen valor
the whole thing is cringe and my night is ruined thanks jack
*in my best TV Dad voice* "I'm not mad. I'm disappointed in him."
Seems like he'd have sufficient soul searching time in Finland, which is more or less a big sparsely inhabited mosquito hatchery, and would have reached better conclusions. Guess not.
Well, the steering wheel is just stupid. But I cannot bring myself to hate the shifter. It's just a shift knob that doesn't hurt anyone. Maybe he thinks it to be a more clever reference than it really is, but who cares? If he enjoys his super lightweight-Le-Mans-knob then more power to him, I guess? Maybe he can put some fuzzy dices on the mirror too? In "choc" ofc.
There's nothing morally wrong with the plywood knob, but it's sadly ironic how something that was intended to save a little weight and absorb a little heat in something that needs both... is in a cayenne.
One where the capabilities of the vehicle shall never be plumbed.
Gents, I hate to be - ahem - arrogant, but yes it *was* yours truly who alerted Jack to the Finnish fashion victim’s modification to his Taycan.
But only after another, unnamed, reader sent it to me, apparently believing that I would think it was a cool guy move.
I asked both Jack and the unnamed fellow what the Finn might do next to his Taycan; perhaps install an aftermarket exhaust (ideally in Inconel)?
Ford is so cringe they call their EV a Mustang!
Sidepipe exhausts. 6” lift and 33’s. Rear rack for extra gas cans.
chrome vinyl wrap
Martini stripes and Rothmans logos.
Go full clown and make it "Roughroads"
They did that because they couldn’t get the rights to Rothmans (and the tobacco factor).
I believe it's mostly the muh health factor. “Roughroads” is unspeakably cringe.
oh god, yes. I'd forgotten people do that.
I bet the shift feel is day and night on that tiptronic with the knob :D
*shoots beer out nose*
Damn you Seinfeld!
He's going the steal the rear speakers from a Charger Daytona Scat Pack and play IC engine noise at cars and coffee.
I, for one, am glad he removed the airbag. Hopefully it will help remove him from the gene pool.
Perhaps voluntarily eschewing an airbag is the most MANLY thing we have yet encountered on ACF!
I will only believe he has no airbags after he runs headlong into a wall driving at least 55 mph.
i never even had airbags
this man is an impostor
Part of me was surprised that neither of these mods was to a Macan, but then I realized that a Macan purchase is basically an admission that you can't even be bothered to be a poser.
I dunno. given that Porsche builds more SUVs than sports cars, I think the Macan owner is the one Porsche owner being most true to himself and to the brand.
Fair enough, particularly if we change that last bit to "what the brand has become." :)
I mostly enjoy shitting on Macans in particular because if I catch up to a Porsche on back roads in my Volvo, it's 100% of the time a Macan.
just tell the Macan driver, "Nice Q5!"
One of the funniest automotive jokes ever was when a guy in a Mustang pulled up next to me at a light, caught my attention, looked down at my Lotus Elise and said: "Nice Celica!"
lol. That's pretty funny. I hope you then left him in your dust.
When I got my driver's license way back when, the only vehicle available to me was our battered 1978 Ford van, which had been a Purolator delivery vehicle and had seem some shit. I was at a stop light when someone in a kit car pulled up alongside me. (I don't recover which kit, some kind of old MG-looking thing.)
Nice van, the driver said, sarcastically.
Nice Volkswagen, I replied.
Should have said nothing and just run his car over. Now *that* would have been funny.
My buddy Neal just bought a McLaren. Even though his Ferrari-churning neighbor has honked at Neal’s wife for not speeding down their cul de sac, Neal dropped his garden tools to go meet the latest prancing horse. The neighbor greeted Neal with “Nice shoes”, which fetched him the response “Nice lease!”
Happy Father's Day to all to whom it applies. To those that it does not, if you are not a woman or under the age of 18 I highly recommend becoming one.
duly noted
But bro, none of the girls I like, like me.. Guess its hitting the gym and tryna fuck tinder sluts for me...
Someone's got to do it!
I am so jealous. About hitting the gym, not fucking the tinder sluts. I need to get some cardio or my doctor is going to kill me if the lack of cardio doesn't.
Yeah, once you build it into your routine and you improve your stamina, it's great.
Easier said than done though, it took me a few years for it to take root, but it can be done
Squash? Tennis? Pickup soccer? Fun cardio for the win.
People just want cool shit Jack, why ya gotta poop on their parade?
Because it’s performative, inauthentic, and wannabe.
All of which are decidedly uncool.
It WAS noticed, which means the guy won, whether feedback is good or bad.
Thank you .
-Nate
"i smeared british racing green lacquer paint all over my face for attention and it worked so i win"
what kind of victory is this when even more people think youre a retard
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why don't you tell us, as surely you have some experience in this regard?
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(I apologize profusely for that remark. I tried to resist the opportunity you provided for it, and I could not. You are my friend, and I have no reason to be so mean, yet I was anyway.)
It also looks dumb as fuck, as the kids say. I mean, c'mon - that wheel and that shifter look as out of place as a tuxedo at the gym.
a tux in the gym would be rad as fuck if you were throwing around 8 plates but that only becuase 8 plates is rad
if you're throwing around 8 plates you can wear whatever the fuck you want because no one is gonna say anything about it.
Somewhat surprisingly, squatting knee injuries are rare. Until you get to the level of (olympic) weightlifters that squat 5x a week and develop tendinitis from overuse and then injuries after that.
bingo
I call this jacked privilege. If you are jacked and lift heavy, you can dress like a Jack ass to the gym. It’s kind of fun. A juxtaposition to the self conscious lululemon and gym shark wearers that are identically dressed.
When you say 8 plates, do you mean 405 or 765?
765
I’m going to stick up for the shift knob, which only reads as “917” to an extremely small subset of car nerds. To his tinder date it’s just a pretty break from carbon-look aluminum inlay custom laser-engraved whatever.
The wheel’s just preposterous though.
Though TBH when I make *my* list of cars that shouldn't have a driver's side airbag on them, it's going to include only cars with FIA-certified seats, cages, 6-point restraints and HANS. But hitting a stump at (if I'm reading the spreadsheet of the telemetry right) 42 mph and being briefly upside-down will do that to you.... #fuckSOFR
What did the Secured Overnight Financing Rate do to you? 😉
Dammit, Sherman, I'm a doctor, not an accountant! :D
Asking me to do accounting is like asking Tom Wolfe to diagram sentences!
SOFR is the new LIBOR, roughly speaking.
im neither of those things and acronyms frighten me
my friend dick irish had a lotus f3 wheel on his '58 t-bird, along with dunlop racing recaps and airplane landing lights for high beams. boy were they BRIGHT!
"airplane landing lights for high beams"
this is genius
As our host has discussed at length, things are not cool, people are. Literally anything you or Jack Irish did would be cool by definition, up to and including putting this clown steering wheel in a VW mom-mobile (although we might question the choice in private).
I would say the steering wheel and shift knob are sacrilege. That GT3 car got raped just so an EV enthusiast can feel more "in touch". Get a real car with a stick.
"GT3 car got raped" -- hopefully he got it from the parts department
"Get a real car with a stick" -- Agreed with the sentiment, but taken literally, I'd prefer weirdos like this stick to abusing EV's like this rather than massacring a real cars worth owning!
He may need the GT3 wheel because some enterprising tuners figured out the Taycan/Audi eTron GT ECU coding, and now offer ~0.8 times a Tesla Plaid’s worth of hp in suitably equipped (“Turbo”) models.
Huzzah?
https://www.redshift-performance.com/taycan
To be clear, that’s a GT3 cup race car wheel.
Perhaps too deadpan:
airbagless wheels belong in a car with harnesses bent appropriately over a roll cage and anchored properly, poking through chairs proportioned for helmet usage, in a car intended for the track - and probably never belong in an aluminum autoimmolation device. There’s a lot wrong with this picture, too much to even get started
Part of the admittedly crappy joke is:
Which accelerates faster ?
The 5,192lb shopping cart with an ECU tune good for 800hp, or the GT3 cup actual race car? Who REALLY deserves to wear the wheel?
GT3s - whether road cars, cup cars, or SRO GT3 class cars - do not accelerate particularly quickly. Especially torqueless Porsche GT3s.
A little Father’s Day tribute to my late dad— Mr. John C. Ryan (he always used the “C”— Crawford, a family name that I unfortunately didn’t end up with).
Good guy. Funny. Down to earth, a realist. People liked him, more than he knew. He was never a miserable old cuss. He always said “Nobody likes a smart ass”. He got up every day, put on a suit and tie and went to work. When it was my turn; I did the same thing. He was proud of his son; and I was proud of him.
I knew a guy, let's call him Kevin because that was his name, that growing up I just thought well, that's normal. Took it for granted. Not realizing that he was in multiple 1%> categories. PhD? Check. Tier 2 operator? Sure why not? Generous to a fault? No, not exactly. Incredibly, almost Christlike in generosity, but so competent and detail oriented that unlike folk who neglect their obligations in their zeal to give he took care of everything.
Happy Fathers' Day to those that are bold. My daughter is a joy and my son is a challenge and I love to to push his buttons! My dad had 4 boys and a high pressure career, my mom must have been a saint. Growing up it just was normal, or so it seemed.
Surely this is a joke, right ? .
So many sedans and pickup trucks sport Chinesium "!RACING!" crap like this it's pathetic .
At least he worked to get a real honest to God PORSCHE .
Screw air bags, I want a "Banjo" steering wheel with a horn ring .
-Nate
Nate we drove 67 Corsair’s and Nova’s growing up That had a crumple zone that went to the back seat. We survived. now all my old (1970’s) cars have, installed at the factory, color coordinated steering wheels. No air bags and narrow “a” pillars that do not block your sight line. I applaud the person that installed a real steering wheel not laden with explosives.
Lynn, survivorship bias is nonsense. I deplore the current safety first mentality that has permeated the culture of the United States and celebrate risk taking but only if it is clear-eyed.
I am not blind to the facts and am keenly aware that I am very lucky to have survived this long, the pain involved in serious collisions is no joke and for me is a life time thing, it (the pain) woke me up this morning but I still am willing to make the trade off .
FWIW, those tiny steering wheels make steering much harder unless you have good power steering .
Make your choices wisely .
-Nate
And a necker knob.
Necker knobs -can- be very dangerous and prevent you from making quick evasive manoevers but I also understand their utility .
-Nate
happy fathers day to yall
anyway the steering wheel looks dumb with that brownish stripe at the top thats trying to act like the yellow steering wheel alignment indicator on a real race wheel (which even then is kinda tryhard) but made dumber becuase its barely a contrasting colour
the buttons are also dumb
that wooden shift knob might be the most overdone porsche thing i can think of and its even worse when people put it in non porsches. why are you trying to ape the detail of an older racing car in a vehicle so far removed from it? its stolen valor
the whole thing is cringe and my night is ruined thanks jack
Checked out his IG, looks like airbag deletes are this guy's signature. A look that goes especially well with the idiotic "Sport Chrono" protruberance
Hopefully black tape over the airbag light!
*in my best TV Dad voice* "I'm not mad. I'm disappointed in him."
Seems like he'd have sufficient soul searching time in Finland, which is more or less a big sparsely inhabited mosquito hatchery, and would have reached better conclusions. Guess not.
Yeah just watched the Finland episode of Long Way Home. No, thanks!
Oh, that's right. That looked properly miserable, didn't it? I'd forgotten that.
Well, the steering wheel is just stupid. But I cannot bring myself to hate the shifter. It's just a shift knob that doesn't hurt anyone. Maybe he thinks it to be a more clever reference than it really is, but who cares? If he enjoys his super lightweight-Le-Mans-knob then more power to him, I guess? Maybe he can put some fuzzy dices on the mirror too? In "choc" ofc.
There's nothing morally wrong with the plywood knob, but it's sadly ironic how something that was intended to save a little weight and absorb a little heat in something that needs both... is in a cayenne.