I thought the classic scam was that when you see an expensive car, you just ram into it, and make all sorts of claims about having a broken neck, huge damages to your vehicle, lost wages, etc etc, and get the rich guy to pay out. You know, that whole sentiment that modern America runs on these days.

1) Traffic - LA is known for its traffic. Getting to LAX from anywhere except for El Segundo is just about the worst commute in the world. Things just back up and traffic piles up so easily in the area. There is no turn off from this terminal. You can pick someone up at Terminal 1 and still find yourself in an hour of…

There is something on fire in that car. They must have overheated some electronics or something during that burnout, the smoke keeps coming.

This is going to be Tesla's "unintended acceleration".

Rear engines are going to make a big comeback, but maybe not in quite the way that you'd imagine: as onboard generators, or "range extenders". With batteries and ultracaps to buffer loads, IC engines can take on a specific design. Rather than being tailor to a broad performance range for driveability concerns, now…

He didn't say women are like dogs. He compared the feeling of enjoyment and reward, not the morphology of the creature.

That is a nice description of a syllogism. However, it doesn't apply to his comments. The conclusion that "woman are like dogs" that Beck comes to requires false transitivity to be applied. He's making a simile, between the level of enjoyment. According to your logic, or as you call it, your "lady brain", that would…

A nice sentiment and expression on your part. However, I'll disagree:

If I wanted to get my 91 rx7 "fully restored", I'd probably be looking at at least $100K ...

But he gets to keep all the money, right? Or if he's spent it all, just be stuck with a $10mil bill, and bankruptcy it away?

Paint. It's essentially impossible to buy a good paint job, unless you are paying more than $6K.

This guy speaks well and has an excellent, logically correct point. But it's totally irrelevant.

Clearly, they need to starting paying the MTA workers $400K+ a year.

This is why I occasionally go out and pour silicone oil onto the asphalt in the center of the lane of the street outside my house. Cars drive right over it, but it'll usually snare a motorcyclist within two or three application. The really great ones are the ones where the wreck itself is *quieter* than the bike's…

When I saw some of these commercials, I was pretty sure that they had just bought an art movie, "Love" by Angels and Airwaves, and had just wacked it up into a car advert.

http://angelsandairwaves.com/?project_id=3

Whoa, holy hell. That video pretty clearly shows that the sedan is hugely at fault here. Easily more than 51%.

4th gen RX7. And it doesn't have to be a super-car. It could be targeted like the FR-S/BRZ.

Professional politicians are reallocating all of the city's money to themselves. It's not that complicated. And it's barely even illegal.

It's not that this was just a defining moment for car culture — this scene where two sets of kids talk from car to car down main street cemented a vision of America (or Americana) that you can find across the globe. In any big city in the world, you'll find at least one American-themed restaurant serving hamburgers…

It sounds like these car companies should just get a couple of smart people to figure out an evolving-model system that will take care of all this calibration automatically.