Why on earth would you ditch a wonderful sports car like a Boxster S for a Tesla?

Wow - the Cayman looks absolutely massive next to that 918.

Yes, it works on a magnetic field, but it works on a high frequency magnetic field and the change in inductive properties of the loop depending on induced eddy currents in the vehicle, which just requires that the vehicle be conductive (not ferrous). Aluminum should trigger it just fine.

The 996 is a good car that gets unfairly shit on, yes. THIS 996 though is a beat to hell, poorly maintained one that hasn’t been driven in 2 years. Definite crack pipe.

I would assume the “new front ceramic brakes” means ceramic pads, nothing else. I bet it’s still running steel rotors. That having been said, I wouldn’t trust this, unless I was looking for one heckuva project. Definite crack pipe on this one.

It doesn’t need to be ferrous, just conductive.

Lemons is a bit silly, but there are some decent low-budget amateur enduros out there if you want to take it more seriously. I’m a huge fan of WRL, personally (http://www.worldracingleague.org/)

Take a look at the timestamps I mentioned - the two videos I’m seeing are not just identical copies of each other, but they are exactly the same footage with a time offset. They’re labeled as different years, but it’s pretty clearly the same car in the same location in the same race.

I don’t doubt that there were two different occurrences, but both those videos are of the same incident (unless my browser is just embedding the wrong video or something, which is definitely possible). They aren’t quite the same video, but look at 0:09 on the first video and 0:34 on the second - it’s the same car, in…

Anyone with a vague memory of high school chemistry can figure it out pretty easily, and slight mixture errors really don’t affect the result. This is also just iron thermite - thermite in general is just a metal oxide and a more reactive metal powder, and there are lots of fun options (MnO2 + Mg is a fun one, as is…

It’s not 87 RON, it’s 87 (RON+MON)/2, also known as AKI. 87 AKI is 91-92 RON, and our “premium” gas here (91-93 AKI) is 96-98 RON.

The names are the same as they always were: Carrera, Carrera S, Carrera GTS, and then it splits into the Turbo and Turbo S on the cushy side of things, and the GT3 and GT3 RS (and GT2 in some generations) for the track. This hasn’t changed in decades. Sure, the base models now have turbos, but they won’t have Turbo…

I find that Boxsters and Caymans understeer pretty badly with stock alignment/tire pressure, but it’s helped a lot by running the same pressure all around (36-38 front and rear, no stagger), and it’s completely fixed by fiddling with the alignment as well (it really needs more camber, especially in the front).

Those two videos look suspiciously identical...

Mobil 1 0W-40 is about this price at Walmart...

Mobil 1 0W-40 is about this price at Walmart...

Having owned both an STI and a Porsche, I had a much, much easier time getting the Porsche dealer to take me seriously than the Subaru dealer. They wouldn’t even let me test drive a new STI, but at the Porsche dealer, the salesman told me I should push it a bit harder after I short shifted up an onramp during the test…

I’d be tempted to call the Carrera GT the last analog supercar - yeah, it has power steering and ABS, but it’s still unforgiving, stick shift, and doesn’t have traction/stability control. The F1 will always be something special though.