I absolutely love the aesthetic of this truck. It’d be a super cool summer driver as long as you avoided rainy days and garaged it.

But something about the rust seems odd to me. I think it’s the relatively spotless engine bay. It makes me think someone may have sprayed the whole body with some kind of acid to get this…

Even the guys who worked on hyperloop submission projects on the Hyperloop Subreddit were saying a catastrophic tube failure within a half mile of the train would more or less result in destruction of the train inside.

There is nothing surrounding airplanes. Basically the only thing that will take an air plane down (unless you’re a Boeing 737MAX, apparently) is a complete structural failure. Even quite severe failures including loss of cabin pressurization are usually very survivable, as you have a very long time to deal with them.

It’s not just a mag-lev train going in a straight line. It’s a brick, hurtling down an evacuated tube at near 700 MPH. If the tube were to rupture (say, a truck on that highway right next to it wrecks and smashes into it), you’re literally going to have a wall of air traveling at the speed of sound hurtling towards…

I don’t buy their cost estimates. If China, the kings of cheap labor can build standard rail for $30 Million/mile, how they these guys build hyperloop tubes for the same amount? Mag-Lev trains alone cost double that per mile....

The problem is that for a vehicle of the Jimny’s size and weight, it should be getting much better fuel economy - IF - it were a normal sedan/hatchback. Which it is not.

This is the same kind of nonsense why giant SUVs are so popular here. The sliding scale gave a pass for larger and larger vehicles. It was too…

It’s nonsense like this that reminds me why I enjoy PC gaming, despite the many problems and cost the PC platform has. $10 to change your display name - seriously? I can freely change my Steam display name at any time - even during the middle of a multiplayer match. Steam also has a 32 character display name limit.

Most popular does not equal the best. Least popular does not equal the worst. There are a lot of LS engines made that were used in a lot of applications. So there’s a lot of support, and people just kind of go to them by default.

I’ve done plenty of weird engine swaps - mainly with Toyota 1UZ engines. The thing is, lots of “weird” engine swaps do not cost appreciably more, require any real additional effort, or have any kind of drivability issues than an LS swap.

LS swaps are the new SBC swaps. I get it: LS motors are great, fairly lightweight and have tons of aftermarket - so they are a very reasonable choice to swap. They’re so ubiquitous now, that they’ve become boring. It’s like going to a classic car show and seeing a ‘32 Ford with a 350 Chevy. After the 50th one you’ve…

The 4200 I6 is a neat motor, but it’s got a weird bellhousing pattern, very tall height and oil pan that’s not very conducive to sticking in other vehicles. Aftermarket is also basically non-existent for it.

I once visited a local guy’s shop to get some parts for my SOHC CB750. He had a ton of bikes, but tucked in a corner I saw a bike partially dismantled, I immediately recognized those 6 exhaust pipes. He gave me a pretty stern not for sale.

It doesn’t matter when or where you charge your car. If you charge at night, it just means more solar is available to offset gas plants during the day. It all balances out no matter what.

Coal only represents about 25% of the U.S. power generation these days, so it’s completely ridiculous to use a coal plant’s CO2 numbers for these calculations. It also doesn’t make sense to use just CC natural gas numbers, since, that only represents about ~35% of our electrical generation. You should be using the…

I wonder what Polaris’s long term plans are? Rolling their own emissions compliant high-output 4-cylinder engine isn’t easy or cheap.

Your numbers are not right. The EPA claims about 1070 pounds of CO2 per megawatt hour of delivered power for ALL sources. That’s 485 grams per kw/h. Your average EV is not charging at 50% efficiency.

I’m surprised he didn’t approach Cooper tires to buy it for their “Mickey Thompson” brand.

Not just Chrome. On FireFox, the comments just straight up don’t load 70-80% of the time. You have to refresh the page 9-10 times to get the comments to show up. I don’t get why they insist on trying to make their absolutely trash commenting system work. There are much betters solutions out there.

I’ve been binge watching a lot of TNG on Netflix lately, and besides the transporter issue - the biggest problem I’ve found is with their computer security. They have a giant multi-user mainframe computer on the ship, but pretty much anyone from anywhere on the ship can take complete control of the computer. Even…

Modern full size trucks get “decent fuel economy” if you’re coming from a 1994 F-350 460 V8. 20 MPG combined is not “decent” - it’s bad. Pretty much every car these days has a city fuel economy that at least matches the best diesel pickup highway fuel economy.

The problem with own a truck you rarely ever use is the…