Famously, a LOT of really good people had to languish under GM’s costing ways. Bob Lutz typically had to beg the execs to let his projects have enough money to even get done, forget done right.

Back when racing at the utmost levels was either 1) not as insanely expensive, or 2) everyone had money to burn, or 3) everyone really used racing as RnD, and/or 4) winning was determined by who had the better car and driver, not just how much money you threw at it.

The 747 is the closest thing to a flying cruise liner in the world, aside from the A380, and th USAF is NOT buying a European or any foreign made plane for teh PResident’s ride. The 747 can do everything that can be done in the  White House in a smaller more mobile (duh) package. A smaller plane would be giving up A…

Too bad it was such a cracker box. The Astro/Safari and the Astrovan were the best minivans you could ask for at the time, RWD truck based vans but less big.

I’m glad I did not come here first. It seems the new V-series cars are just Entry models into the whole V-series. Basically calm yourself.

The Vette and Viper (still sounds like a couple of cool bros you wanted around) were ardent by friendly rivals. I can not recall anyone who were fans of one car speaking badly of the other. They did tend to reace in differing series and only rarely raced aginst each other. Mostly because GM ran factory Corvette teams…

“The car has served its purpose, it won the big race again, gave Ford the headlines it needed, and it’s dumping this whole expensive international sports car program like a bad habit.”

We can has sexy robot without being quite so... obvious...

The development and deployment of 48-volt electrical systems is more about powering the sheer onslaught of new technologies regulations and customer expectations are literally forcing on the auto makers. Things Advanced driver assist, autonomous driving, various forms of hybrid (since most car makers will not dive…

Greivious is looking their like “Oh Hello there. I’m going to kill you all now. Do try to escape so I can chase you. I do have time to kill today.”

At first I did not follow. OTAUs are a great way to get recalls done, where and when software can fix the issue. But “force feed”? that is what draconian government regulation and enforcement is about.

Not for the issues Tesla has been having.

I was going to B*tch about how “Telsa wants to be the most advanced so they should have seen this LONG before it could ever happen”. But frankly they are at least halfway right in this. THIS is the sort of thing that Over The Air Updates (OTAUs) are for, fixing problems, that can be fixed in software, in as many…

I would debate that. Even weight distributuion is fine for a road car, a luxuryt car, a garbage truck. Its all about stability. But for a high performance, high maneuverability, sports car or race car, the batteries need to be placed pretty much like the engine would be in an ICE-V.

An RMR electric sports car sounds cool until you realize that is utterly unnecessary unless the motor is so big (I mean like the motor in the RC competition car BIG relative to the rest of the car) that where you put it on the chassis actually matters. The batteries would simply outmass the motors like 10 to 1, at the…

Looks like a severe glitch in the Matrix.

No one said GM was actually going to kill the Camaro. I only said it was a RUMOR. Losing your [good sense] over a rumor is what I have any real objection to. Of course, that assumes you read and comprehended the comment.

I did say it was a rumor, did I not? Losing your minds without proof.

There has been some really “scary” news coming from Ford about the next Mustang. On the up side, it will be actually ALL NEW and not an updated and modified D2C platform, the Mustang has been riding on since MY2005. But the scary part is that the Next Mustang will based on the SAME, however modular, platform as the…

As long as the production of teh BEV adn powering one continues to pollute more thatn the production and powering of a ICE-V, the “Actually [BEVs] pollute more” holds true and will NOT stop.