Ive investigated 1,000s of collisions over the last 13 years, and everything you have said is just wrong. Those people do not lose control because of traction control, they lose control because they don't have the necessary skills to control the vehicle. And ABS is decidedly another thing that saves lives. Also, studies have been done, and people that are the most confident about their driving skills are not as good as they think they are. Unless you've done a lot of track days, or even better, HPDEs with an instructor next to you, you probably don't know how to handle the car once it breaks away from its limits of adhesion.
To add direct injection to s197 would have been $56 per engine. Hood struts are probably in the range of $1 to $2, if even that.
Not even close. Nothing that's $70 at retail is $2 designed, manufactured, shipped and installed.
Just park in an end spot and smash a theatrical bottle in the spot on the other side. Link below for info. To save money, you can make your own for practically nothing. The jerks who go looking for cars to dent usually don't want a flat tire or two. Harmless to tires, but they don't know it. Gone the next rain or sweeping.
I totally agree with that, ford could have easily had 351 cid coyote engine. The now discontinued 5.8 used in the 13-14 gt500 could have been used, just bump up the compression and adapt it for coyote heads and viola a next generation boss 351.
It's power that matters, not size. If they can get the same power out of a smaller engine thanks to the efficiency of modern technology like DI then there is no reason to make the engine bigger.
I thought spares came in every car. My Scion tC 13 had one, and my mustang has one. Guess I assumed all cars got them.