When you get 6 figures in the price tag you can take 2 spaces.

Highly illegal. There are several features found on tail lights, the most important of which is the NON-powered reflector. This serves to identify he location and orientation of your car to other cars at night. This is required for DOT approval. next is weatherproofing. light bulbs and enclosed reflectors are easy to…

You have to be the most level-headed lawyer I've ever read. Until you, I had yet to have heard about a lawyer that wasn't trying to generate work for themselves. One of the best books I read was "The Terrible Truth about Lawyers" written by a lawyer of all people. So maybe that's two?

Worse yet, I got stuck in a party of prius drivers with a dead battery. I myself was running a conventional 12v system. between the 4 priui, no one could give me a jump. They don't even have battery terminals for it!

Oh, I have actual info on this. I have an oil/gas geologist friend. In many areas it is almost free. In fact it bubbles up, which is technically free. However, in general there is the "lifting cost" which varies by country. The middle east is lowest because they have near-zero regulations. Here the lifting cost is…

Right however refinement is refinement. The energy extracted from gasoline is fro the chemical bonds. That is where the energy has to go. Refining for the most part is just separating the various types of pre-bound molecules.

To elaborate on this, yes, it is possible, but as you point out it would take more energy to make than we would get from burning it, so it is a net loss. (And therefore the electricity should be dumped into electric vehicles instead and we'd get far more miles out of the same energy) However, some other factors may…

Which will never happen because of the fact it comes out of the ground, with chemistry already being done for free, eons ago.

Well what do you propose then? We'd need to have a mark designation so a 325.0 is the original 325 and a .9 is nine engine revisions later? Then what does the year mean?

The Ark is most likely a copy of it, just embellished a little bit more in 1-up-manship.

Depends on which S54 you have, the originals are hydrolic, then there was the electric solenoid then they went back to hydrolic.

I'm not encouraging speeding, but give neutral a shot for a tank of gas and compare your mileage.

No, bit a big shit eating grin.

This is a fantastic concept, but it's expensive to buy a whole couch. So here's what I did:

There are all kinds of tricks the ECUs do now. Some will inject fuel and shut off the spark during braking to cool down the engine, as the unburnt fuel carries heat away better than air alone. Then there's all kinds of timing tricks. BMW invented an experimental engine that can control power solely though timing.

Oh, and I was driving the 135M...

135 is not an M car. I've driven both. I own an e46 M3, and I assure you the 3.2L M3 is better despite the lack of a turbo o n the 3L. There's just not as much handling performance and the turbo lag makes it a tad harder to drive.

Close, but not quite. The best MPG comes from moving it into neutral. Yes, this may be counter intuitive, however consider this. When you are in standard Decel Fuel Cut Off (DFCO) your engine is braking you. However in neutral, your engine falls to idle, and you use a minimal amount of gas. However your speed will be…

How do you play a paddle, like you can a clutch? How do you start when facing a steep up hill from a stop?

But why if you have them, aren't you using them? Unless they are mangled beyond use...