In the movie 2012, I get steamed when the people escape in the “Antonov 500" (actually an An-225 Mriya) that the Russian oligarch charters and he says, “It’s Russian.” It’s Ukrainian, baby!

Does the rear seat fold down?

This thing is buzzword bingo vaporware.

How much differentiation would be necessary for Dodge to be in compliance with their own statement? Model number change? Model year change? Something more?

This reminds me of the original Star Trek costume designer, William Ware Theiss, and the “Theiss Titillation Theory” - “The degree to which a costume is considered sexy is directly proportional to how accident-prone it appears to be”

A little tribute to Nazareth (and IndyCar racing in general):

Could you please go into a bit more detail?

I think the IndyCar rear suspension is inevitable, because you need an IndyCar gearbox to go along with the engine, and the suspension is mounted on the gearbox. Just easier to use the entire rear end of an IndyCar from the engine back, then put body panels around it.

“You are the Duke of New York. You are A Number One!”

The facts of this story have gotten distorted through the lens of hatred for the yacht’s owner.

Thank you for the correction, and a bit of a laugh.

Ships emit substantially less cargo than trucks per unit of cargo moved over a given distance.

Good point, but I doubt the elevator was hydraulic. It was a 12-story building, and there was a housing at the top of the building that looks like it would be in the correct location for elevator hardware.

So, dorm story. We just got done taking a group floor picture. About 60+ guys. We all cram into the elevator to see what happens. We drop to the bottom of the shaft (thank goodness we were on ground floor and only had the basement to go). Must’ve hit some springs or something at the bottom of the shaft, but we were…

Lincoln Chafee included the conversion to metric as a policy in his 2016 presidential campaign. About the only attention his campaign got was to be ridiculed for proposing it. It’s a colossal misreading of the American zeitgeist to think that any efforts to convert to Metric would be well-received by the American…

While I think it would be better in the long run for Americans to convert to Metric, one shouldn’t underestimate the insane expense of that conversion. Engineering companies would either have to convert their entire legacy of English designs to Metric, as well as a very heavy investment in English metrology. While…

We’re not criticizing their including English units (which the English mostly don’t use anymore, stipulated) and Metric - just don’t use such clunky conversions.

A works Rothmans 962 DID race in a WEC race in Mosport in 1985 (and a works Rothmans 956 in 1984), so that is the only time one raced in North America, but not in IMSA.

To be pedantic, I don’t think it ever raced in Rothman’s colors in IMSA. Those were all in WEC and Le Mans (and maybe occasionally JPSC or German Interserie). The works 962s in the USA were the Al Holbert Racing cars, which raced in Lowenbrau, then Miller, livery. If you can find an IMSA race where it did, I’d be very…