V engines exist mainly for packaging reasons. They were invented to make the engines smaller with a lower hood line. With modern I-4s, V-4s serve almost no purpose in a car or motorcycle.

I’ve got a 2000 Harley Softail with 65,000 miles on it. I do basic maintenance and that’s all it needs. The only other bikes that seems to take high miles with low maintenance are BMW opposing twins and Honda Goldwings.

If you buy new bikes every 3 years, Harleys aren’t such a great value. If you buy your bike and keep…

Those futuristic appliances are the public transit of the future. Acceptable to the middle class and above because you don’t have to have body contact with strangers. If you live in a big metro area, you will not want to drive.

If you live in smaller towns and cities surrounded by countryside or mountains, than you’ll…

It’s only going to get worse. LA is already too expensive for most people, which drives them further and further from Los Angeles City. Oh, and when people say LA, what they really mean is Los Angeles County, which has 88 cities. Or even LA and Orange Counties together, since people think Disneyland is in LA.

A public…

People who don’t study history, are doomed to repeat it.

The rest of us have to sit and watch helplessly while history is repeated.

There’s a definite bell curve involved. When the traffic is dense enough, the speeds slow down sufficiently to prevent deaths. But when the traffic is dense enough that people are going 60+ with two car lengths between them for miles on end, any accident can be fatal.

But you’re right. If cities screw up their traffic…

Open casket funerals are a fucking creepy ass tradition anyway.

I’d say one culprit is cities giving up on adding roads to accommodate their population increases, with an emphasis on public transit that eases traffic along a narrow corridor at the expense of the rest of the cities. Increased traffic density increases traffic deaths (except when it’s gridlock and no one is moving…

In the early 1980s, you could get an early 1970s 911 for $6000 in pretty good shape. In the early 1990s, you could get a mid-80s Ferarri 328GTB for $20,000, in pretty good shape.

These Aston-Martin Vantage V-8s are that deal today. You jerks are making me want one. But when it comes down to it, these are…

Nothing LeBlanc could do in a show hobbled and hamstrung to not make Chris Evans look like the whiny, un-manly, soft, privileged douche that he is. When Sabine Schmitz looks like Conan the Barbarian compared to you, you have no business helming a show like Top Gear. When the writers dumb the hosts down to make Evans…

1st: Does GM laughably think they can design and build cars in America that are suitable for Europe or Asia?

Or are they going to Chrysler this and just use their old European based platforms until they’re practically antiques and nobody buys their passenger cars anymore?

GM should know better than to make long term…

Or he burns himself into the institutional memory of this country, and we’ll always have someone like him in charge from now on.

So far, dystopian cyberpunk science fiction is looking pretty prophetic. And some pre-cyberpunk dystopian science fiction like Blade Runner/...Electric Sheep. And I hear 1984 is #2 on Amazon’s Literature and Fiction list, and #1 in Science Fiction.

Other than the hilariously Robo-Coppish name for the option, the…

That will happen when they realize they’re in the “energy business” and not the “petroleum business.” A few “oil men” woke up to that fact, and are investing in wind farms and natural gas.

But also, it’s the investment of the investor-owner of a station too. To really make it profitable, they need storage in the form…

Neutral.
I think the general consensus is that when cars get down to a 10 minute charge and the charging system interfaces are standardized, that you’ll be able to charge your car at gas stations, with new “electric pumps.”

Also, unlike Tesla, eventually the other car companies will get together and agree on a standard…

This is even creepier than my theory that the Cars were all autonomous vehicles that rebelled and killed all the humans, along with the IoT connected toasters, fridges, stoves and HVAC systems. Then the next generation of autonomous vehicles was besieged with guilt, they missed the humans, and adopted human traits as…

I’ve been happy with my Ford. Now I’m proud to be a Ford owner.

Smell-O-Vision redux. It’s a race to the bottom to enhance the virtual porn experience.

Or bigger motors that suck up more juice.

I suspect a lot of Jalops are in the “Thankful I never got caught” category.

Mine:
#1 Dual Garret turbocharged ex-CHP ‘69 Dodge Polara on newly built and very empty 91 in California just after a new section opened. It was a pursuit vehicle with a speedometer that went to 160. I had the speedometer pinned.