It’s easy to imagine occasions where you might like to have your car play music externally, like at a barbeque or beach party or whatever. You know, places where you might otherwise bring a boombox.

My anti-V-day playlist is Total Recall (1990), Starship Troopers, and Crank, accompanied by lots of alcohol. They don’t have to say much about love either way, they’re just maximum silly over-the-top violence, which I feel is ideal for such an occasion. 

I’ve never heard of collision/comprehensive being recommended against. I would infinitely rather repair a current car than have to go shopping for a new car.

This is the same company that made sure you could swap out the entire rear end of their race car in under 15 minutes.

I find it genuinely confounding how the same company can engineer an LMP race car to enable a full transmission swap in 15 minutes, but then also sell a car where drive belt replacement is six hours of labor because you have to remove the entire front bumper to do so.

Fair analysis. My only experience with a 2ZZ is in my Elise, which has a redline about 1000 rpm higher than in Toyota trim. So that’s nearly 100% more rev range it can use when “on cam,” and upshifts don’t take it out of the power band so much. Doesn’t really help around town, but on track it really sings....

A 2nd gen turbo for 15 grand is probably a good deal. If this one had a 2ZZ swap that would be a good deal as well.* But a regular old 3rd gen MR2? I saw them with half the miles for less money 15 years ago.

I was gonna say that the “most aerodymanic Rolls Royce” is like the “most aerodynamic brick wall” but you did it first, so have a star.

One of many, many things that people should be pulled over for, but aren’t because police are hyper-focused on speeding.

It’s pretty simple, really: gamers hate NFTs and crypto because we can’t buy any fucking GPUs for a reasonable price.

The amber blinker does not meet the size requirement for the US, so they use the larger red one instead. But apart from that they keep the light cluster the same because otherwise they’d have to redesign four or five body panels in addition to the cluster itself.

Your argument that a five hundred million dollar yacht pumps lots of money into the local economy is literally the foundational idea of trickle-down economics. You’re kind of talking out of both sides of your mouth here.

From what I was reading it seems like *maybe* in two or three years, *if* you do a lot of heavy-duty modelling/rendering, it *might* be worthwhile to have DDR5.

*Theoretically* it provides more safety to people (and those around them) who already refuse to pay attention to driving.

While everyone’s talking about “future proofing” I’m surprised no one’s bringing up DDR5. It was one of the main fundamental questions I had to research when doing a recent build, as there is no way to upgrade later if you need/want to. And the answer is no, you almost certainly do not need DDR5.  

My first thought too!

This is why we should never have moved beyond emoticons. :-/

I still just have a Driving Force Pro that I got in 2004!

German law *does* place additional liability on drivers who are exceeding 130 km/h on the highway, but only if there is something to actually be liable *for*

Minimum Viable Product. This is what “Agile” development has brought us.