I’ve only been to one NHRA event (I suggest everyone go to at least one, they are INSANE cars), it was at ZMAX in Concord, NC (usually called as Charlotte but as a native I won’t give the big city the credit). The run 4 wide there and it’s the top fuel cars are the single loudest things I have ever heard in person.…

What most people don’t understand is that it’s far cheaper to have a 1% failure rate than a 0% failure rate, often orders of magnitude cheaper in both dollars and time. I have worked for large scale OEMs (not automotive) and have run warranty analysis where the answer was basically “we can live with the warranty…

Next time I get a warranty call I’ll ask what it would take for them to cover my ‘56 F100.  Factory parts are getting tricky to find.

A lot depends on the design of the engine. High torque engines have a much larger stroke:bore ratio that makes linear velocities of the pistons pretty incredible at high rotational rates, and because they are designed to have more torque the top ends do not have to handle spinning as quickly. Long bore engines can be…

C6 corvette.

The pizza hut buffet is the king of all fast food buffets, and lasted the longest.  I remember going to one in the 2010s which is fairly ridiculous, but lunch is lunch and there weren’t many options

mmmhmm

It’s a combination. I’m 6'3 and these trucks feel comically enormous to me. The bedsides are barely below my arm pits if at all and I can barely reach the engine from the ground

Right.  most people buy supercars first for the look of driving a supercar.  A Tesla with 1000hp still looks like any other Tesla.  Reving a high strung V8/10/12 has a visceral charm that an electric motor does not.

Company that owns 4 brands making supercars not sure about supercars.  Sure.

I don’t believe you’re an engineer here saying that torque is irrelevant and only HP matters when HP is calculated from the torque the engine produces. The chart absolutely matters but torque is what the engine produces.

Incorrect. Horsepower is purely a function of torque not a standalone value. Torque is what an engine generates and is correlated into horsepower via a ratio of RPM. Knowing torque value at any given RPM will give you the HP at that engine speed.

fair enough. My car, in a general sense, does not have a reputation of being reliable mostly due to early modifiers who went full send and blew the blocks to pieces. Since then the reputation has been set but the reality is later models have very few issues if you leave them fairly stock or modify and drive smartly.…

Meh, such is life. I realized years ago I would be unhappy driving a boring car so I take the hits that come with interesting ones. After absolutely trashing my ‘07 Mazdaspeed3 I traded my ‘05 Rubicon for a ‘10 MS3 that was perfectly reliable in every way....until suddenly it wasn’t.

My functional, reliable DD slipped timing randomly one day and, just to one-up torch, bent all 16 valves. This is not a problem known to happen on these engines unless the timing is redone incorrectly but that had never been touched on my car. It gave me 70,000+ dead nuts reliable miles with just oil changes and one…

This is entirely false.

I said I didn’t know anything about planes.

Probably.

I covered that in my first line. A 30 year old 4 set plane seems like it shouldn’t cost $100k+

With the caveat that I know nothing about planes, this seems to apply the typical 1980s Porsche tax to aircraft.