As an aside, I wonder if there's any correlation between high-end steel bike riders and drivers of manuals... in my utopia, those two things go hand in hand.

This is a tri bike, which is something I've always had zero interest in. I'm also a retrogrouch - last year, while working for a certain bicycle manufacturer, I bought two new bikes before departing - a $3500 road bike, and a $2700 mountain bike, both in steel. I tried a bunch of carbon bikes but I couldn't see the…

You're the first person that actually made that connection. Yes, I'm a tri-athlete...I try to be an athlete.

The wheels alone are approaching 5k. Can't really tell what bike it is, but it being a Tri frame, it's probably well over 3k.

EDIT - it's a Specialized S-works. Hard to tell exactly what model, but the price ranges from $3,000 to over $14,000

http://www.specialized.com/us/en/bikes/ro…

I'm a bike guy, but not a Trek guy, so I'm not sure of the exact model, so I'll say it's $12,000 or less based on this:

[obscenity filled rant extolling the virtues of the teachings of Roy Wort and pointing out that competing car blog is either run by ex jalops or people that jalopnik would never hire in a million years]

[retort that I did this years ago, and still harbor grudge which has now come to surface because of today's COTD]

[insert cleverly named beer here with semi-original two line review and obligatory congratulatory sentiment]

Or just compare it to what the DoD's expenditures are for fuel in a given year. It wouldn't even be statistically relevant in comparison (emphases mine).

$7.2M saved by taxpayers over 6 years, illustrated.

[Picture of my penis]

pretty sure that it's available for dealer order now, which means they should have stock of them by Nov / Dec

370 horsepower from a 5.7 hemi? I'm dumbfounded. 4253 pounds? I'm dumbfounded. I could understand if this car cost 30K but 41? WTF? The exterior of the car looks a lot better than the original new generation exterior, but still! Groaaaaaaaaaaaaaan. Let me call 1992 so I can get less than 400 horsepower from a 5.7…

I find it mildly humorous that California is all about lowered emissions and better fuel mileage, yet snubs small diesel engines. This state has its head so far up its ass.

On their acetylene safety webpage, Airgas suggests that this is a not terribly uncommon (though highly preventable) accident:

I a-door that Monza.

Without reading this whole thread I'm just going to say the reason you can't have the nice things you want is because of a clusterfuck of EPA CAFE GVWR exemptions (longest acronym evar) and EPA Tier II emissions standards (and their staged implementation related to GVWR).

This is what you are looking for. 2.5 LT Common Rail diesel.

You're a lot of fun at parties aren't you?

(edit, look, I joke, and I thought it was obvious it was a joke, and I didn't want to use the Simpsons "that's the joke.jpg" because it felt even more douchey, also, I noticed after going through your comment history that you've posted on oppo, so I added you to the author…