Meh, about expected. Subframes rot out on pretty much every car. Not a huge deal to replace it.

To be fair, the Hellcat probably has about 5x the torsional rigidity.

0-60 isn’t everything. There’s cost too. Hybrid tech just unncessarily drives up cost in performance cars.

Sure. Let’s take the dirt simple self contained Briggs and Stratton electronic magneto, and add unnecessary complexity and cost with items like a camshaft position sensor just so we can save two butterfly farts worth of energy every cycle.

No. Small engines have been using wasted spark ignition for years because it…

Animation is still something so many games lack in. It’s utterly depressing when I see modern AAA titles that don’t even have facial animation or lip-syncing as good as Half Life 2 - a game that came out 13 years ago. There are a lot of games with vastly superior animation these days, but I’d figure by now HL2 quality…

Briggs and Strattons fire the spark plug every time the piston is near TDC. Doesn’t hurt anything to fire the spark on the exhaust stroke.

Throwing more people at it doesn’t always fix the issue. However, for a game the size of Dota, 25 people is a VERY small amount of people to be working on it. Overwatch by comparison has about 100 people working on it.

I’d question the less noise part. DOHC engines with timing belts can be near mechanically silent. “square” valve opening profiles sounds loud to me, especially at high RPM.

It’s honestly bizarre to me how consistently awful Valve is to their fan-base these days. Be it Half Life, L4D, Team Fortress, CS:GO or Dota 2. They don’t communicate at all, and then just let the game rot (L4D/L4D2 even TF2 a bit these days). Or they make huge game-breaking changes (Dota, CS:GO), then back-pedal and…

I don’t think anything Elon Musk has done has been “cheaper”. Better, yes. Cheaper? Absolutely not.

Two words: Big Dig. It cost Boston $15 Billion to dig a few miles worth of tunnels and took them 16 years to do it (26 if you include planning).

The only thing I really can’t stand about the Model X is the stupid wall of plastic where the grille *should be*. There have been plenty of other cars without a traditional grille, and they didn’t leave a big stupid blank space. The styling took advantage of the lack of grille and made for a good design.

You say “almost 12,000" like that’s a lot. Most “popular” vehicles move that many units in a month, let alone over the course of 6 years.

Cars don’t care about two stroke mix fuel. They’ll just smoke a bit and its bad for the cat.

I really think the Japanese automakers had some of the best styling of all time during the early-mid 90s. Most of their cars had these great body lines and this kind of understated-but-means-business look that holds up really well today.

This thing looks as big and tall as a mid 2000s Forester. Are the Foresters now just SUVs?

Sorry that’s not true. A DVD holds just as much data from 1996 as it does 2016. The spec hasn’t changed.

Those are really bad examples. Early DVD players were very high end machines with very good image quality. Most early EFI systems were better than carbs, too.

Thats about 43kw/hr which would require around 200 amps at 230v. Its doable.

The best bike I ever owned was my ‘01 Honda XR200, the slightly larger version of that bike - but still small. I replaced it with a CRF450R - which I like, but that XR200 was just such a happy little enjoyable bike.