I was driving on the freeway in '68 Cortina GT one time while it was still on warranty and no hands of mine had gotten involved in the wiring when all of a sudden, the ammeter pegged negative and billows of acrid burnt wire smoke started coming out from underneath the dash near the ignition switch.

We didn't send all those military assets to the middle east just so an electric car vendor can have things their way, now did we?

The beams were shipped during regular traffic hours and this was on a narrow, elevated, off-camber curved span - the truck driver apparently went too slow and she was stuck in traffic downhill, next to the beam. These trucks even had rear-steer cabs where the driver sits under the load.

When they moved several 170,000 pound beams across town in Portland last year, one finally rolled, on a bridge no less - luckily the woman pinned in a crushed car made it out alive.

Rumors of a 750 HP Mustang are starting to fly...

Ricardo would approve...

You can't drive across the ocean

And I can remember when buying a Merc meant a 10 year TCO w/resale was less than an entry level econobox.

hehehheh ;)

And that's exactly what was said about the 2005 SL65 AMG, right?

Can we also expect an 80% depreciation in 8~10 years on this one too?

Yeah - you'd think the wheelie bar would hold more promise than that.

> I have, however, driven an automobile before.

You failed to list the best one - where a certain team had a sensor in the car that sniffed the sensor in the track to detect when the race went green at the start, allowing the launch system to automatically trigger itself faster than the driver could...problem was it put a certain hapless driver out front of some…

China is leading, once again, and we all should be thankful.

Maybe it was the Chevelle that had the trunk full of cinder blocks?

I was driving on the freeway in that Cortina one time while it was still on warranty and no hands of mine had gotten involved in the wiring when all of a sudden, the ammeter pegged negative, billows of acrid burnt wire smoke started coming out from under the dash near the ignition switch.

...got the tech from?

'68 Cortina GT...one of several. Became quite adept at rebuilding Lucas cold weather starters, generators, gauges, switches and wiring harnesses.

For the same reason they drink warm beer...they own Lucas® refrigerators.