Yeah, I was thinking those test-drive numbers are pretty low. With Oregon’s relatively low speed limits, I routinely do over 50 MPG in my Fiesta 1.0. Even in California, where my average speed is 75 (and plenty of higher speed bursts when passing) I’ll still average 46.

Not really a secret. At the time, Lamborghini was owned by Chrysler, and they had experience casting an aluminum engine. The early prototype was made in lamborghinis’ facilities before Chrysler had their own up and running. Lamborghini did a lot of design work on the motor too to make it more compatible with…

Other than being V10 and around 8 liters each, the truck and viper engine share no other characteristics, or parts. The truck v10 is iron, the viper v10 is aluminum. Pistons, cam, crank, intake, conrods, heads,, injectors, and ECU have no interchangeability in any way. They are both descendants of the LA engine,…

Maybe a link to the recall? Or the dates for actual information content for readers?

They most likely took the water. It was the 60's, they didn’t leave radioactive stuff laying around, and the reason they left the site was the moving/growing ice crushing the facility. But the containment for the coolant might have been left behind...

If there is any waste there, it would be low level, and is probably quite contained. I suspect it will be more components and equipment that is contaminated, rather than large quantities of material. Nuclear weapons don’t exactly ‘leak’ a lot. Plus the ice would have added more containment on top of that.

It’s got no radioactive materials onboard, there are no yellow trefoils on the hazard placards. Since most of them are blank, I’m guessing the truck is empty, other than the generic ‘dangerous’ placard on display.

Since Jalopnik now has proper media-connected overlords (Univision.. who owns stuff like the onion, among others), they most likely must have RIGHTS for every stock image they use that are properly documented. This would include releases from models, etc. Since Univision sort of got stomped by a few of the major…

Problem.

Portrait mode. Typical of someone who wants to ignore everything on either side of him.

Fords selection process was picking prior owners of Ford GTs, brand ambassadors, etc. Only a few people getting them aren’t ‘gear heads.’ I’d say more than you expect.

The real lesson here is, money talks.

We’ve all learned a valuable lesson.

Nothing odd here, just some rodents making nests. I have had a vehicle that was 2 months old have similar nests in it after sitting in the dealer lot before getting put on the sales line.

Overrun, not overcook.

I can see the swedes taking it to the next level, and creating a test for moose poop evasion. That stuff goes flying!

They added half of that back on (22lbs) and dropped the turbo pressure before the race.

Internal work on transmissions. Specifically, giant snaprings often found compressing clutch packs in sunshells. Fuck those things scare me, for no good reason. other than some finger breaking capability if you aren’t careful, they aren’t particularly dangerous!