Wow, that was a bad investment. $20 says these things are going to depreciate like rocks for the next 20 years.

Nothing is predictable. The FSAE I work on and drive had various issues which were fixed during testing. And during competition it had other issues which were completely unrelated and so random nobody would ever think of them. At Nebraska competition one of the airlines which was outside the engine bay and operated…

Something about that blue paint on the Continental has got me. It doesn’t even look metallic, it’s just a good-ass blue. That’s refreshing. Everything on luxury cars these days is metallic or pearl. it’s nice to just see a rich glossy color again.

When you can afford to race an M3 but you can’t afford to properly engineer underbody aero. I fucking hate lazy American approaches to aerodynamics.

Why would you want to? It’s a design characteristic. The black pillar reduces the visual height and mass of the car. It also enhances the visibly darker window glass, making the car look longer and lower again. This is particularly important on modern cars because they are massively tall and slab-sided. This is the…

90s Hondas are way overpriced for what you get. I’d much rather have a Toyota anything from the same era. Cheaper, simpler, and often more numerous, Corollas in particular.

Plus, you’re much more likely to get into an accident in the snow and ice. Are you going to have full coverage insurance on a worthless piece of crap? Hell no, that’s a waste of money. Use the good car, put snow tires on it, drive safe, and if you get in a wreck you can actually recover some of the cost of that…

It’s less about the laminar flow and more about the low pressure zone created behind the gurney lip. That helps draw out the exhaust air. The flow will still be laminar above that gurney lip but it creates an enhanced low pressure area behind it.

Interesting. Maybe it’s just a matter of the network in your entire area. My fastest Steam downloads are about 5+ and my fastest torrent peaked at 5 but is usually around 4.

That noise sounds like brakes grinding horrifically to me. It’s definitely related to something grinding in rotation.

But have you ever met a server that can offer you that much data at once? I’m getting 35 out of a 30 service from Time Warner but I’ve never been able to download anything faster than 5-6. It always depends on who I’m downloading from.

Why are they avoiding Russia? What are they scared of? Why go out of their way like that?

Is it because they know Russia is right on the airspace incursion issue and the coalition knows that if they accidentally give Russia another reason to retaliate then all hell will break loose?

For a little context, that’s 75% Model S deliveries than last year.

If Rand Paul doesn’t know shit about something he’s got a good excuse. As a libertarian, he believes that the government probably shouldn’t be involved in whatever thing he doesn’t know about anyway, so he doesn’t really need to know about it. People involved in the free market are usually better at knowing things…

DeltaWing worked fine when Nissan had it, as far as I remember. Besides other cars crashing into it because they couldn’t see it.

I prefer a strong blend of form and function. All I see is a waste of money in that photo. The lighting is nice, however.

Ah yes, it’s the best photo because it really illustrates that spending tens of billions of dollars on a crappy jet only to hang jinglebells off of it rendering the stealth design pointless was a complete waste of money.

Can you explain what Mexico has to do with the New River? I see that the river flows from south of Mexicali. The whole river looks pretty gross. Mexico thought they’d be clever and apparently put most of the river underground through the city.

But the New River runs into the Salton Sea so I’m not sure how runoff from…

Now we call him $5 Footlong Jesus. I’m from Dayton originally and every time I drove past this I shook my head. The ranch just down the highway on the other side belongs to the pastor.

The Salton Sea’s birth didn’t occur anything like what is said here. The reason the area around the lake became populated to begin with is because of canals which connected the Colorado River to the area, turning it all into farmland. After the canals became blocked, engineers’ failed efforts to open it up combined…