Just added to my list of things I might buy for around town travel when I relocate. Something you can charge with a solar roof. Look forward to upgrading with graphene superbatteries that seem to be appearing in Europe.

I think the suggestion of STi and Focus RS kind of means the decision has been norrowed down. New ones are out of range, and old Focus RSes don’t exist.

I’m pretty sure a newer STi hatch will beat every car suggested in the post, by every metric but luxury from a driver’s point of view. And Subarus tend to be safe.

That stratosphere seeding “geoengineering” is the cheap fix governments hope for. It won’t work, it’s dangerous, and its environmentally unsound on a lot of levels.

The real fix is space based, completely under control, can be eased in slowly to minimize grievous, unintended consequences. It’s also expensive in a…

I live in Los Angeles. The way I quiet my road rage, is that I assume everyone has a gun, has their own road rage, and they are just looking for an excuse to shoot someone.

Also, I constantly remind myself that I’m on “Team roll with it.”

I’ve talked to two Uber/Lyft drivers who said, “The only way to go is to buy a new car, or dealer used car with a warranty. Otherwise, the maintenance will kill you.” Both were driving new cars, one a brand new BMW 328i. Both had driven their used cars that they started with until they were in the shop every single…

I’d like to know if you get more thrust by making the small end semi-EM porous, so you get an explainable EM reaction drive.

I remember when the producers of Cowboys and Aliens were shopping that film around. Except, it wasn’t Cowboys and Aliens. It was Cowboys and Dinosaurs. The producers thought they were first, and one of our previs guys mentioned “The Valley of Gwangi.” And then they were back to square one. That guy wasn’t the last to…

You can’t stop your youngish hipster friends from buying that ‘62 Lincoln Continental convertable. Everyone seems to have to learn for themselves.

He has seen every scene on which he’s composed, dozens if not hundreds of times during the process of composing. By the time the film is done, he’s sick of it.

That’s just how some jobs are in Hollywood. It’s a job, not an event.

Our last Uber was a BMW 328i. He bought it new, and said it was already paid for. Mazda 3s and Kia Optimas have more comfortable back seats.

In fact, of the sedans we’ve gotten with Uber and Lyft, the Kia Optima was the most comfortable, had the nicest seats and the most rear seat legroom. The BMW was meh.

If you’re from LA, New York or London, Birmingham is a small town.

Ooops. Swapped the KW and PS. So 24 more PS than the 280 PS limit.

This is what happens when you’re dealing with 3 standards for the same thing. Confusion :)

Slipperly slope arguments are universally bullshit. These are guidelines for states to follow, but they’re still issuing the ID.

And yet the twin turbo 300ZX/Fairlady Z32 produced 300 HP. Or 304 PS. So 98 PS more than the supposed 206 PS limit imposed by JAMA. In the early 90s. What did they claim the TT Fairlady produced in Japan?

The problem with that BMW, is the hinge on the trunk is located below the rear window, instead of above it so it makes a big hatch.

4th gear:
Membie when Jalops confidently proclaimed that America didn’t need electric or hybrid vehicles to increase fuel economy, because Europe had solved that problem with “clean diesel?”

Next, they have to prove it operates chemically the same. Let’s see some antimatter molecules interacting.

In Los Angeles, there are many (surprising) cars from the 1980s still being driven daily. We didn’t really get the benefits of smog controls enabled in the 70s, until the 90s. It just takes decades for attrition to take out the old technologies.

The Enterprise seems to break down all the time.

I should also point out that from a company perspective, you might want “bad accounting” like that. The losses then become a write off to offset profits from say, trucks and SUVs. But it’s not an honest assessment of the profitability of a particular car model, when the expense of a new platform is dumped on that…