As an artist, I completely understand what he is doing. It's great!
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I'll bet none of those even fly. ARE THOSE OSTRICH WINGS?
Whuh... smhmn? Sorry I fell asleep there.
I saw a Land Rover almost slide off the road going sideways yesterday.
Yes, every pound you can shave from supporting an on-board pilot can be another pound of fuel you can use. And fuel doesn't require visibility... so it can be packaged much more efficiently for aerodynamics (which further increases endurance).
I never understood the analog "clock" in a car as luxury thing. Every one I've seen looks like a wrist watch. You can get an analog wrist watch with a large face for $15 at walmart. That does not scream "luxury" to me. I can rip the straps off a $15 analog watch and glue it to the dash of my crappy civic today, if I…
That means it's going FAST, right?
The non-hybrid model looks WAAAAAY better:
The Insight is the worst car I've ever driven. And I used to own a 3.75liter (125 hp brand spanking new) 1984 Monte Carlo that would overheat if you drove it more than 30 miles and had non existent piston rings. It would put out a smoke screen for 5 minutes after starting it up and had so much blow-by that it probably…
Wait, I don't see the ALONSO IS FASTER THAN YOU button.
I call those fourth trimester abortions.
Of COURSE a company building a custom car are going to be on Jalopnik all the time. Where else would they hang out?
I'm praying that no one has done a McLaren F1 to electric conversion.
It was a turbocharged, water-injection, all-aluminum V8 with a little valve that cut off boost if it sensed there was no Turbo-Rocket fluid (the name for the water-alcohol mix used to suppress knock) left in the reservoir . It needed this because it had a 10.25:1 compression ratio. And this was all in 1962.
First one to find a Monolith on the moon gets to go to Jupiter!
The 2010 Insight is the worst car I've ever driven.
That's funny... because the Tesla "fix" is to adjust the ride height up at highway speeds, through a software update.
Mopar should sell the Prowler design to Mazda and give them a reason to make an inline rotor engine (three or four rotors should do). That should fit under the long, narrow hood and give all the torques while sounding like a swarm of angry bees.
The wing was not allowed to flex, so they had the idea of making the nose/wing attach point flexible, so it could still scoop closer to the tarmac under load.