My household could operate, easily, with a MINI SE (100mi range) and a Rav4 Prime (42mi on battery). That is a total of 50kwhr of battery to convert all of my commuting, all of the local errands, and all trips to the neighboring cities to electric. It would also convert 20% of my 1/mo trips to my parents’ house to…

I’m sad that I can’t afford such a beautiful thing. I’m less sad when I consider that my driving ability would never do justice for the car’s ability. So, I will admire from afar and take joy in that such a thing exists. 9000RPM redline.  *swoon* 

His general incompetency only being supported by an unqualified, revolving door staff probably limited the damage, TBH. Had he been an actual politician that could get things done, we’d probably be in significantly worse shape.

As long as the skin isn’t structural, it isn’t an issue. It’s just managing airflow. Most bigger birds do use the skin as part of the structural member and this type of fix would not work.

I’m surprised at how much prices vary. My 4.8kW array (25 yr warranty on panel production*) was around $9500 after the tax credit. States with big tax credits seem to have bigger up front prices. I’ve had my system for 2 years now.

I was in Dallas/Plano for a couple days a few summers ago. 38 minutes to cover 2 miles from work to my hotel. When I did get to see a little pavement in front of me — driving to the airport — other drivers dive bomb into the space as they change 3 lanes to get to their exit.  It was indistinguishable from my driving…

I’d laugh at the overlander Tahoe ending up scrap metal in an interstate snow storm, but my stock 4Runner could see the same fate on the way home. I have snow tires and grew up in the mountains so I’m comfortable with my ability and my vehicle, but I could just as easily end up in the same situation.  People around…

I almost bought a set of those for stock class auto-x for my FR-S. I cancelled last minute because the offset would have required spacers to keep at least stock fitment. I ended up just getting Enkei PF01s and my body shop painted them BBS gold. I miss that car. The spacing of the cabin really reminded me of my 1993 L…

I always loved these.  My 2001 Impreza 2.5RS looked almost identical to this (I had the smaller coupe wing).  

That’s true assuming people still use GT cars the way they were originally envisioned.  I feel like every segment has morphed into ‘comfortable daily driver’ versus where they started ages ago.  

No, trucks still meet the modern definition of a truck despite how people use them. Cocaine was once purchased and used as medicine. It would no longer be considered medicine if brought to market today.

Don’t give me that no true scotsman nonsense. The original comment wasn’t talking about big box bikes or vintage MTBs because almost no one buys those bikes to actually go mountain biking.

If I were dropping $100k+ on a car, I wouldn’t so much care about range. We’d take the wife’s [fill in luxury SUV here] when we need to cover ground. This thing is beautiful.

I’m curious how many people are aware of the star roof you could get in the Rolls Royce Wraith. I appreciated the combo of that and Star Trek, though.

But 15-20 year old mountain bikes or big box store bikes aren’t representative of the mountain biking market either.  

Yea, I’m 38 and decidedly not cool, but I know who the weeknd is. His line “Star Trek roof in that Wraith of Khan” in the song with Daft Punk is stellar wordplay.

I miss concerts so much.  

It really changed my perspective of what I need in life. It was pretty easy to get caught up in the more money than time so that extra money turned into expensive international trips or buying things just because. We’ve honestly had just as much fun going to state parks and just spending time with the kiddo while she…

There are systems that do that. Pumped storage hydropower is one example. Unfortunately, in a micro scale, it is going to be cheaper to buy a battery to hold energy than some mechanical system, so a battery is what will be selected. Since dollars and cents drive almost all decision making, we won’t move onto something…

I think it’s fair to say that someone shopping for XTR brake pads and someone shopping 15-20 year old mountain bikes aren’t really the same market. It’d be like commenting that you easily found 2001 Cavaliers all over Facebook marketplace when someone says that they are struggling to find track tires in stock for…