Hawkstrike6
Hawkstrike6
Hawkstrike6

It’s actually *not* optimized to run on jet fuel (JP8). It was optimized to run on DS2 (diesel), then switched to JP8 in 1995/1996 when the DoD went to the single fuel policy. Abrams did Desert Storm on diesel fuel. It takes a sligth fuel economy hit on JP8 ... the rest of the combat and truck fleet takes about a

Isn’t the answer always Miata?

Or maybe for us mere mortals, spend 10% of that for a Spec Miata?

Yes. The correct answer is: “D. All of them.”

Precisely.

Mid-size? It’s gone full-on full size. Heck, my 2020 Civic is larger than my last Accord.

Buyer is wrong.

Or just tax tires.

I own a Civic Si (and S2000) so I endorse ... but isn’t the answer still Miata?

This is the Fit we need, but do not deserve.

Right. Rate, not quantity, is the important metric here.

The true zenith of technology is not artificial intelligence, but artificial stupidity. Any good machine intelligence can make the right call based on available data; it takes a human-equivalent intelligence to take in all the data and then make the exactly wrong decision.

Not minutemen ... moronmen.

M35 deuce-and-a-half. Required double-clutching on every shift.

“Economic causality”

Yeah, I exaggerate -- I do think COTA is great -- but not by much.

Any Tilke-designed circuit.

While it woud be great to see F1 at the Glen, I agree it can’t really support something of that magnitude.

Braking for not-stop-signs and not braking for stop signs.

Often the “Viable” is optional.