I am also skeptical. i doubt it’s that much, since the alternator is ALWAYS rotating when the engine is on. The alternator has a certain drag on it, but does that drag go up much when it has added current loading?

When it’s engine explodes, it’ll light up the night sky! (super nova style)

I think the obvious answer is: “the rest of the team aren’t holding up their end”...!

i know they are highly engineered, but they still look crazy on-track with their high center of gravity and billows of smoke. Whoever thought ‘we should race trucks’ was mad.

Isn’t that the point? racing something that shouldn’t be race-able?

looking at Jason’s artwork above, i’m seeing a lot of THUNK sounds as the center pin gives way due to the stress of weight, steering and power being applied to it.

I’d imagine owners of those old 70s Rolls Royce Silver Shadow would have to say that a lot. sure it’s a rolls, but they are the cheapest roller out there. “Ford Rolls Royce Zephyr”, as Clarkson calls them.

If it’s a Mirage jet fighter, it’d probably break the glass even at sub-sonic, since they are so loud!

Staying In Your Own League, Especially When You Are An “All-Star”

it doesn’t even have to be a stock tub. just make the body panels LOOK like factory cars. V8 Supercars share the headlights and taillights with the production vehicles... THATS IT! the chassis is a tube chassis and the doors open.

What’s funny is V8SC is trying to be more like Nascar....!

racing wagons are cool: Proof>

Worst car i owned a 76 Subaru Leone Coupe for a couple of years. it had issues with the CV joints (between engine and front wheels) that would be noisy as soon as they were installed, then the car let me down when the front wheel bearings seized while driving. It was a car i had the most trouble trying to sell. Not…

Wait, you’re getting cheap gas? here in Australia, we’re still paying high prices, for no fucking reason!!

Clarkson: shut the fuck up.

But, holy crap, is it ugly.

let’s just call it HAM, already, which was also the name of America’s first space chimp, in a happy coincidence

It doesn’t change the fact that it’s one expensive ride. i mean, does it really cost that much to fly a dozen execs first class and put them up at a top hotel for four days? (even discounting the overtime and other worker’s bills, it’s still an extraordinary amount of money, which governments are all to happy to piss…

That flinstones artwork does look like fan-art from deviantart. that kind of sexed up realistic portrayal is common. Although, wasn’t Betty supposed to be slightly pudgy and slightly less attractive than Wilma?

No, the door is a ‘horizontal-fall-out-prevention-device’. The ‘entry-point-to-the-rear-seat’ is the door jamb/hole the door goes in.