The original gearing was track oriented, first gear was more like 2nd or 3rd in a normal car, since it was only designed for doing track work and the designers didn’t envisage it pulling away from standstill very often. In the real world with traffic lights and stuff the close ratio gearbox had to be swapped for a…
Here in the UK at least, they sold practically a billion of the things, and so nowadays you can buy a running example for <£1,000.
I think the difference there was (rewatching the clip) they were all a lot smaller than the Raddus, and they all hit Vaders ship while neither ship was in hyperspace, so his deflector shields could cope.
Thing is, in the original trilogy the only time the rebels ever knew where the death star was was when it popped up right about to destroy a planet. Yolo-ing a capital ship through the death star at that point would likely have lead to 2-3 large chunks of death star raining down on whatever planet it was about to…
Showoff time, I used to deliver pizza in Woking (where Mclaren is based) and one time around late 2012 I got an order to go to a little unremarkeable industrial estate in a residential area in Woking. I know something is up when I pull into the yard and there’s two McLaren Mercedes SLRs parked up, one missing the…
If I wanted to reduce incidence of red light running i’d add a timer next to all yellow lights showing how long drivers have before it goes red so they can decide if it’s safer to brake up to the line or if they have time to continue through.
6. Cars locking up the front wheels under hard braking when the model shown had ABS as standard.
Because the bike will do 0-60 faster than the microcar can do 0-30 and the bike will top out at 150 whereas the car will barely do 90. The bike redlines at 13000rpm and the bar redlines at 6000.
I dunno, looks to me like the results were...
...Doctored.
Ay lmao
Is there any way us lowly UK Jalopers can watch this?
Here in the UK you can insure a sofa for road use as long as you pay the premiums for it.
“Also, when I lived in Staten Island for a spell many years ago, I once racked up $10k in parking tickets that I got reduced down to about $2k by a judge. Don’t ask!!”
The only thing that annoys me about this chase is the BMW boxer twin and the triumph triple dubbed over with I4 motorbike engine sounds. :P
And most importantly, they’ll be nice and quiet when they do their early morning pickup runs. It’s worth it for that alone...