If you crunch the number quickly and compare them to existing numbers you might see why. The 7 passenger vehicles that can meet those standards are currently either electric or hybrid-sprinter vans. However many small passenger vehicles can already meet those standards. I only used those numbers based off of some…

The weight of cars has increased dramatically with the increase in impact protection. In addition to sacrificial crumple zones, modern cars have impact side structural reinforcement and reinforcement to handle off axis impact. This has resulted in vehicles weighing significantly more, before any other factors are…

Looking through his record... money is the only thing that keeps him going. I have some serious question about the 2017 BOSS GP series as well, might need to open an audit of their books.

People milling around on the street trying to shoot the cars with cell phones and he stopped thinking one of the morons was moving in front of him... would seem the most likely explanation. F50 shouldn’t have been following so close.

My sister is a Cadillac GM, but has connections with all the local dealers. So, when I was looking for a Porsche she alerted me to a trade-in that matched my specs. I had a check in hand running to the dealership before they had done the CPO check. While I was waiting for their mechanics to finish the CPO inspection,…

Crack pipe because I can buy a 458 Italia for pocket lint more. The price difference between the 430 and the 458 is further offset by the maintenance cost difference, with the 458 being far cheaper to maintain and in true Jalop fashion can be self maintenanced (as who cares about that “always serviced by Ferrari…

787 cruising speed is 587 mph... best case scenario a car will average 60 mph over any trip (generally a lot less, but we will use that because it makes calculations easy). So a 787 will travel 9.35x as far in a given hour for it’s burn rate. An Alfa Romeo Guilia QF will burn around 24gp/h under ideal conditions and…

So best case scenario 52 kg/h per person (128 person capacity -highest capacity configuration)? Compare this to a 787-9 with a burn rate of about 22 kg/h per person(lowest capacity configuration).

I remember someone saying on Rennlist, when the 917 came out that, it would be fine if Porsche charged less for the 917 vs the outgoing 6 cyl boxster, but they actually charged more for the 917 and expected people to be happy. The average Boxster/Cayman 917 is around $85k with options... which is pretty nuts as…

I saw one of these the other day and my initial reaction was, “oh so that’s the new X7", when I got behind it, I thought “the X5 has sure gotten big”. I never really considered the X5 a big CUV/SUV, but this one somehow looks markedly bigger than past iterations.

I eat Impossible Burgers pretty regularly because they seem to do less damage to my gut than beef... (getting old sucks). That aside, Impossible tastes good, but you are not going to mistake it for beef, especially once it cools down, like it would if being delivered.

I was considering buying a Senna, but vomit kept appearing around me every time I saw one. I don’t know where the vomit is coming from, but I feel it’s better to just avoid buying one for now... at least until I can solve this problem. Strangely this doesn’t happen with any other McLaren products and the last time…

I saw a NIO ES8 driving around Palo Alto the other day. I didn’t even know the Chinese were doing US testing. That thing looks like a serious contender for people that want an Escalade size luxury SUV. I don’t know what they are looking to sell it for, but that could wipe out the 70-150K luxury SUV market based on the…

More to the point why isn’t the software setup to do this automatically? Practically all camera sensors are 4:3 and crop to 16:9, why not crop to 16:9 regardless of orientation? Sure you will lose some resolution on a 3:4 crop vs a 4:3 crop, but its a crappy sensor either way.

So is this car being serviced by Toyota techs or BMW techs? It seems like it would cost Toyota dealerships a pretty penny to upgrade their maintenance bays to support BMW parts and maintenance. Especially since they will sell maybe a couple dozen of these per dealership.

I agree, it is the Silicon Valley hubris that thinks they can do things better. It is also half assed implementation of Agile/Scrum/Kanban being used in hardware engineering. Having worked on both software and hardware, I can say that both disciplines could learn a lot from one another. Hardware guys tend be so rigid…

Doesn’t care about making money, but lives in his office and is going insane trying to micromanage costs.

I’ve done my share of shit talking about Tesla, but I really hope they are able to pull through. They are the only significant American made car manufacture, as in truly made in America. Furthermore, while they suck at coach building and interiors, they have truly revolutionized how cars are powered and the electrical…

This made me curious to see what Arnold was up to lately:

I know, I did about 30 seconds of research and found more information. That’s part of the reason I was chiding Jason, because he literally copy pasted a tabloid write up and added a few snarky comments. I did find other people complaining about the speed bumps, so the design may not be ideal.