I hope that happens. The tag could be “Congratulations Mr. iNvDrZiM on COTD. This lovely lady will bring you your Lada as soon as she has shaved off all her body hair.”

Audi, Horch, DKW, and Wanderer were merged into Auto Union. As others have said, pretty interesting history. Part of it has to do with Porsche (the guy, before he started the company) convincing Hitler to sponsor 2 Grand Prix teams rather than just Mercedes, or so I’ve read.

They probably don't realize that it's worth more than their Lexus.

I’ve met a few and they usually look like meathead Rob Lowe. The competition guys look like your run of the mill hillbillies that you find at most drag racing events.

InB4 the people who don’t understand chemistry or combustion: yes, Diesel engines smoke when they’re under high power, this is different from rolling coal, get over it.

It is no secret that Donald Trump loves aviation attention.

Trucks and busses are regulated under the EPA. Basically everything engine powered in U.S. jurisdiction is subject to EPA emissions regulation (based on manufacture date, of course). Truck regulations are more inline with light duty regulations when compared to aircraft.

There’s good CGI and bad CGI. Game of Thrones does a great job of it with filling in the background of scenes, keeping shooting costs down. The same can be said for Fury Road where the stunts by themselves were impressive but they used CGI to fill in the blank edges. Core to the story CGI like Terminator 2 and The…

My “of course” would have been 80s full size van:

I put a deposit down on one, the salesmen at the dealership weren’t even allows to drive the one they had in.

That Napier-Railton is beautiful. UNG! The want is strong.

Right, I was thinking the same thing. Thank god it’s not vertical.

Personally, I feel that aerial surveillance is much better suited to UASs. However, a conceptual replacement to the SR-71 would be much more awesome as a hypersonic SSTO aircraft. Granted, Shul’s 35 miles per minute velocity that he quoted is only like 12% of orbital velocity but it’s definitely something to work with…

Just a note on Jack Roush’s crash. I read the investigation report after it was released and while the official cause of the crash is listed as “pilot error”, that is not the whole story. He was instructed to land on a particular runway as another aircraft was taking off from the same runway. This is common practice…

It’s always disappointing to crash out. It’s even more disappointing to have something you think can finish but can’t.

One of my favorite “reality” series was Long Way Round. It had many of these aspects. Granted, they had a pretty good sized budget for it but when it was just the 3 guys in the middle of Mongolia, no amount of money short of having your own fleet of aircraft was going to make it turn out differently. It was relatable,…

It does the same thing as water and methanol injection except with a fuel. Sure, you’re over-fueling a bit but running close to stoichiometric fuel:air ratios will do that regardless of your fuel type. Even with closed-loop feedback fuel control, it’s hard to get fuel:air ratio perfect plus the fuel burn is never…

They use propane to cool the intake charge, it would still run on diesel and it would still smoke under high load.

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