Superbowl Sunday. 5 degrees F outside with -5 F windchill. Snow and ice on the ground and on my unplowed, unsalted street. Car in the street outside my apartment. Work on Monday morning loomed ever present.

A. When first designed, F15 had hydraulic controls. Later versions are fly-by-wire

Fly-by-wire. Sensors on the controls send the signal to an actuator that applies the force to control the fighter. No real feedback nor increased effort except the G’s on the pilot’s body.

“Trunk kits” were nothing new. Chevrolet tossed a dual 4 barrel cross ram manifold into the trunk of the ‘68 Camaro Z28 for Trans Am racing. I am pretty sure that wasn’t the first time or even the only US manufacturer to do that.

I stand corrected, F1 does have power steering. Thank you.

It isn’t the G’s, it is the effect of the G’s in steering effort.... reading comprehension please.

Fighter aircraft have fly by wire controls. Low effort movement. Sure, High G’s but low control effort.

Lower classes of motorsport, sure women have no real disadvantage. Look at 2 time champ Christina Nielson in sports cars.

High miles, Italian, Not Ferrari....

It’s almost like the automakers are in this for themselves and not for us...!

Bingo! You can’t make the top tier of racing better by penalizing the best.

I hope you aren’t foolish enough to think the numbers you published are real. The released numbers are only what the government wants you to have. the actual success rates are different. Higher? Lower? We don’t really know.

Agreed, it was not a bad design, just dated. The plus side....they were durable, and the bodies didn’t rust much although floors and shock towers did. Many a shiney Chevette rolles down the road with carpet padding dragging under the driver!

You had non-gas filled twin tube shocks on that VW. They WON’T rebound by themselves even IF they weren’t totally shot. You have to pull the rod back out.

And was based on the chassis of an Opel Kadett introduced in 1973 as the Opel Kadett C.

Those are good examples!

Yeah, I get that. I don’t want anyone to die hitting my mailbox. The statute seemed to be written more for snow plows and other county vehicles than uncontrolled motorists.

Doing that was illegal in the Ohio county I used to live it... probably for the reason the Fox body got totaled as well as damage to snow plows.

An extreme example, for sure, but offset chassis were not new. Smokey Yunick’s stock cars from the 60's had the frame shifted left by shortening the left side A-arms and lengthening the rights and shifting the body.

Good Job!