strangely enough while there are cars that hit standards nearer to 50mpg already, CARB won’t allow them here. Like most small diesels, or engines like the Fiat twin air. You can get the larger multi air all day long but forget about the two cylinder. And even with the recent “aging in” of kei cars, its still a wealthy…

prices for Pontiac V8s are climbing around here. a nice G8 GT with records and decent mileage is over 10K. Some ratty looking GTOs Ive seen go for higher than 6K. Hell I drove a buddy’s for a week about 2 years ago, only work done on it was a “custom” CF hood and some too-stiff-for-California-roads shocks. Thing even…

for every actual complaint of side airbags going off incorrectly, there’s as many or more testimonies from guys who have done the same trails or worse, and no issues.

aftermarket situation for the new ranger is gonna be the same as the colorado, for a while. You just can’t compare anything to the “lego like” availability for the Jeeps and Tacos.

so thats even worse. then the money for roads, if it isn’t being used on subdivisions were the only work is being done, then its not being used at all for roads. Most going into pet projects like HSR and somehow funding Stadiums and special extensions to mass transit for those arenas

no benefit applied to used cars. Nor EV conversions. Was looking into this earlier today, hoping to score a used leaf with a good warranty remaining, to drive for a couple years before turning the drivetrain into a EV kit car.

and you don’t have a hundred charging outlets on the curb for the hundred unit apartments where less wealthy people live. Even the “fancier” places with reserved parking, even here in Silicon Valley, you’re lucky to find a dozen outlets for EVs in a brand new complex that has more than 200 units and charges rents that…

were ya this outraged when Portland started increasing taxes on EVs because they were upset about all the money they were losing from a significant uptake of EV drivers not buying gas? that was, what, two years ago? more? 

sadly or perhaps fortunately, its not US that draws the line. its the laws and agencies enforcing them. which now is gonna make the entire future of EV look worse as yet another EV culture darling has serious issues. there isnt enough of them to brush under the rug, and like previous ev companies scamming people with…

I wish I could figure out exactly *why* that hasn’t worked. Or any religion and most political ideologies. Maybe its the difference in scale that is the problem? a cult has to be a certain small size? and of course not be useful to politicians of a major party to help with reelections?

for at least a decade, the only true “disruption” in silicon valley is “lets find a business model breaks laws and passes the costs of these violations onto our workers”. Tesla should call them all “contractors” and then they’d be totally clear. Work even better if while abolishing that old dealership and service…

I coulda went thru life happy in my ignorance that those cars existed.:P

sure the driver wasn’t a gap toothed mouth breather BEFORE the accident? :P

Driving an “absurd drift mobile” now occupies my bucket list!

damn. Ive seen plenty of Starions and Conquests, many driving and mostly stock. But never seen an S Cargo outside of an auto show or in the wild at all

Australia used to be fun. now they’re closing down Holden, getting rid of the “vee aights” and hating on truck racing. bet they got a ban on big bush knives, emissions limits on “the barby” and culture warriors offended about the toxic masculinity of using the word “mate”. :P

isn’t that what we got as the Audi Fox?

and this right there, is the final nail in the coffin. I tried to hold out hope. But when you’re looking at something to raise money from nothing in order to pay for the bills on the second round of funding you needed because the first round of funding wasn’t enough to deliver what was promised....smells a little…

why not a rocket assist sustainer out of a more or less standard howitzer? it’d still be a ballistic load once the sustainer burns out in a few seconds, but gives the shell the constant acceleration similar to one of these long gun projects?

I’m working on a small board for mine. it’ll plug into the fusebox, and when the selector knob is set to 4wL the ssr will open the circuit to the new fuse holder on the board. switch to any other mode, airbag fuse is live.