People that live or work in silicon valley often leave the dealer plate on their car for many years to avoid tolls. Dealer plate is just an advertisement. A paper registration is taped to the windshield, but it can’t be read by the toll cameras. The bridge toll is $5, some people have to cross two bridges daily, which…

The question to ask is how long will the battery last before it overheats.

But the turbo V6 will go first. It typically cost more to run, premium fuel, synthetic oil at a more frequent change interval. When you get a failed turbo, often times it will take out the engine too when it sends the chips through the oil system.

Don’t know what it is with gas engine turbo, but they seem to fail at a higher rate.

I just got rid of my 05 Subaru Legacy GT with 276K miles on it. It was on the 2nd turbo.

The one thing you won’t have with a turbo V6 vs a V8 is reliability. If you drive it hard, it is a matter of when the turbo fails.

Daddy in China will pay the bill or just buy her a new car.

Though they could benefit from a ski ramp. The British Harriers can take off with heavier loads by utilizing the ski ramp.

Actually it can fly without its gun. NOAA has a A-10 for flying into storms.

While the current unit cost is coming closer to the original estimates. It doesn’t take into account for the the previous years. The original contract was for 2400 planes at a cost of $200 Billion. That figure is now at over $300 Billion.

Just because you bought a used car for $60,000 doesn’t mean you are paying for maintenance on a $60,000 car. It’s still a $140,000 car and the maintenance cost reflects it.

Daddy’s money.

The real problem is most kart places don’t group people by their skill level. Fast drivers don’t like to deal with lapped drivers 2 laps into a session when the laps are only 25 seconds long.

When you have equally skilled drivers, weight does matter. I’m a good 50 lbs heavier than a former co-worker who would pull away from me on the straights. Yet we had to drive a session with a couple small kids who thought they were good enough to drive the big boy karts get all pissy at us because we were lapping them…

The shuttle driver at my local airport said they scan the license plates each night so if you don’t know where you parked, call their number and they can look it up on their database.

Yes. Look at MB F1, their engines have almost reached 50% thermal efficiency, whereas conventional IC engines are around 30%.

Most people just pull their e brake when they park. I always put the car into neutral, pull the brake and check that it doesn’t roll, then put it into park or first gear. There has been a few time where I had to pull much harder on the brake.

Most Jalops are hypocrites anyways. Look at the outrage when the EPA proposed to ban the conversions of road cars into race cars where the emissions control systems were removed.

The big problem is the JSF program has diverged from the initial concept to the point that it really should have just started off at 3 separate airplanes. The Marine version compromised the other two designs. But it’s now at the point where they share less the 25% of the parts.

The only reason the Marines want their own airplanes is because if it is US Navy carrier based, the primary mission becomes fleet defense.