I'd say a 1996 Volvo 850 Turbo is pretty fast, for a first car.

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The modularity of it all is astounding; imagine a complete refit of the ship's electronics, radar and communications hardware being completed in weeks instead of years. Costing six figures instead of eight or nine. This truly is a quantum leap forward in terms of naval vessel sustainability.

This is very cool and a highly important advance in naval technology. This will lead to far more efficient ship maintenance and operations. Might not have the flashiness of other new tech like railguns and directed energy weapons, but this is at least as important, if not moreso in the long run.

It probably takes the Iowas significantly longer to get up to speed (and slow down), owing to their very large mass.

Those props are 17 feet. To put it into perspective, the screws on an Iowa-class Battleship are 18 feet for the outer two, and 17.5 feet for the inboard two.

There are only two exceptions to this little rule. Number one: your own state laws might have something to say about a car, 25 years old or not, without safety items like seat belts and headlights. So even though you're exempt from federal laws on the subject, you still have to comply with your own state rules and…

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Because those who can't or are too lazy to take training courses and pass more stringent license tests, will still drive illegally and cause accidents. Look up statistics for how many existing collisions are caused by unlicensed/uninsured drivers.

The Viper actually botched the start. Notice how the Viper actually trapped first, despite having a slower time? That's because the ET shown on the board is from when the car breaks the start beam to when it traps. The Viper rolled off the line about a half a second before the Vette hard launched. The Viper had a VERY…

When I was watching the C7 Z06 episode of Jay Leno's Garage, it appeared that the rear lights were actually colorless when off. Is this the case? Are the lights just always lit when the car is running, to give them red color? Thanks.

Now with two flight-worthy B-29s in the country, when will we see a B-36 restored to flight status?!

20 year old 215hp, v8 rwd manual sedan, and I got 6-10% Jalop. Yep, I think it's broke.

I don't care if I'm late for work, if the temp is below freezing, I give my car about 5 minutes to get the juices flowing before setting off. This is more important in my situation because I pull my car out of its parking spot and immediately have to get on it, hard, to ascend a steep incline for about a mile. That…

they're extremely low revving, huge-displacement turbodiesels (often with a redline at or below 2000rpm). They generate monumental amounts of torque. Also that Pete is over 40 years old. Newer ones have up to 600hp and over 2,000 ft lbs of torque available.

Yeah, that's not supersonic. Just below mach 1.

1972 Peterbilt 359.

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You think the government crushes a lot of perfectly fine cars? Just imagine how many guns they melt down, just because they were used in a crime or suicide or even just sat in an old man's attic for 95 years, not having fired a shot since the Great War.

My girlfriend immediately jumps my bones when I come inside from the garage because of the way that I smell. Grease, gasoline, oil.