With 475 lb/ft of torque, it only makes sense to dramatically weaken the structure.

I literally created a Kinja account to star this comment.

We need to talk about “we need to talk about” headlines. They’re the most Jezebel thing about Jalopnik. Just stop.

Counterpoint... maybe we need to talk less about Elon Musk.

The only logical response to this is to go buy a penny farthing. If you want an old bike to rebuild start with a really old bike. These modern double diamond frames are child’s play. What you need is a huge ass wheel ready to catapult you into the next county.  

Similar to his wife’s strategy:

I’d be happy with him dying just about anywhere as long as it happens real soon.

If their goal is to keep Cool Ranch in the lunch room longer, that’s valid for me.

If journalists had guts, they’d print headlines...

Published documents (Twitter include) are subject to peer review. The greatest lesson anyone can learn is to keep their dumb thoughts to themselves.

Congratulations, you made it look like a Chevy Impala! That’s a win in anybody’s book.

Stern gave me good advice 20 years ago when I wanted to upgrade my halogen headlights to HID and he knew what he was talking about then. Here I am now with 25 years experience engineering, 20 of it in the automotive biz and 5 in the automotive headlight biz and he’s still right.

I first encountered Daniel Stern online in the early-mid 1990s on usenet in either rec.autos.driving or rec.autos.tech or one of the more specialized groups in the rec.autos hierarchy. This was before the world wide web reached any sort of significant usage level. At that time if memory serves me correctly he was…

you really want a picture of my unmade bed?

It’s cute when the trolls talk to themselves.

A bunch of talentless white musicians stealing from a black blues artist?

We’re calling those Denny’s children menus “cognitive tests” now?

Cognitive test =/= IQ test. Acing it doesn’t make you a genius. It means you probably don’t have dementia. You should not be bragging that people were very surprised you passed. 

A bit forward with the controls all right but, you’re always the first to arrive at the scene of an accident. At least that’s what we said when I was dd’ing VW Transporters.