#COTD

Melting point is the problem, no? Carbon fiber melts at about 1200 degrees, and a combustion chamber reaches temperatures of over 2000 degrees at hotspots.

A neighbor of mine has a Z4 of this gen in Lava Orange with matching orange leather interior inserts. I gotta admit, it’s a cool-looking car. It strikes me as the right size for a weekend tourer: Smaller than the bloated Mercedes SL but with a usefully longer wheelbase than an old Z3.

Neither Tesla nor the financial press are in the right here.

Yeah, that’s my thought, too. I’ve been a big fan of long-term leases on exotics through this period when you could get them at 2% interest rates. But 6.75% means I have to get 10-13% on pretax basis. Stats say that on average you’ll lose that bet.

One of these scooters materialized literally right on my sidewalk, which is privately owned by ME. And I was like “I don’t have time to fuck with this thing.” I was more amused than annoyed that it was there. It was gone when I got back.

You must be talking to some not-particularly-well-read libertarians. Hayek, Friedman, and Locke all acknowledge the problem of the tragedy of the commons and said explicitly that there was a place for government in regulating such situations.

El Farolito is my go-to, but TBH they only *really* have supremacy over carne asada. Tonayense and Cancun do a better job with carnitas and pollo. El Metate has the amazing chile colorado and chili verde. Dos Pinas does the best San Diego-style fish taco that I’ve found.

(1) I live on the 22 and the 15 and they’re both hilariously unreliable. Like, I’ve seen more reliable bus lines in Bangalore and Costa Rica. I gave up even trying with MUNI. That whole organization should be fired and the earth salted under all their offices. Hire a bunch of people from some European nation that…

I think there was a startup that tried to debut exactly that at SXSW one year. It went just as badly as you would predict.

It’s because we have both density and a remarkably fucked up public transit system. NYC techbros can just get on the subway and it gets them there; Seattle and Austin techbros can still drive cars.

+1

Indianapolis has a clean downtown but a bunch of dangerous and shitty neighborhoods. San Francisco has a dirty (but actually not dangerous) downtown, but 80% of the neighborhoods are squeaky clean and bizarrely safe. Pretty much none of my SF friends would last 10 seconds in any Midwestern city. The really bizarre…

It’s an *amazing* quality of life if you have either *lots* of free time and a little bit of money, or lots of money. If you’re middle-class, then San Francisco is basically a big middle finger. Unless you’re gay and middle class, in which case it’s a middle finger slid skillfully and pleasurably in and out of your…

*If* SF’s buses ran every 10 minutes and could be relied upon to do so, then this would be awesome. Muni buses are not even remotely that reliable or that frequent, though. They’re horrible.

I think it’s safe to say that all the time I spend on Kinja is purely recreational, and usually when I’m too drunk to actually drive my Astons.

Yeah, this.

It’s actually just navy blue and Cream Truffle. Something about the light makes it look way more purple than it is.

Oh yes you can.

Well, the not-so-secret secret is that the V-8 was related to the Jaguar AJ V-8, and of course the V-12 was kinda-sorta (but not really) two Duratec V-6's stuck together.