Here is how I owned an Elise for less than the price of a used Chevy Aveo: Purchase the car for 28,000 with an extra set of wheels and tires. Drive it for two years. Put on one set of tires (800). Insurance and gas was actually pretty inexpensive. Sell the car for 28,500. Sell the extra set of wheels for $500. Get…

I tend to dabble in 3/4 scale models.

It also keeps with the aircraft theme on the gauges. I’m sure you noticed the speedo says groundspeed. Piston aircraft with a constant speed prop have a manifold pressure gauge.

About the same conditions. Bought an actually quite nice ‘98 Ford Explorer with a bad fuel pump for $500. As everyone knows, fuel pumps only fail with a full tank of gas. So draining and dropping the tank was in order.

The part looks like one of the prongs of a side-squeeze plastic buckle. Perhaps from a backpack the victim was wearing? Unless there is a fog light assembly or something that uses one of these.

I can tell you the APU on my airplane burns roughly 30 gallons per hour of Jet A and puts out 30kVa. The APU is primarily used for electricity but can be used for other things as well, so the efficiency might be improved.

My first car was a Jeep Wrangler. One of the best things about the car was removing the doors during the summer months. You could stick a leg outside, rest it on the fender flare, and have 60mph (it was a 2.5l) wind blow up one leg and down the other.

I actually have a google alert set for the VIN of the Lotus Elise I used to own. That way if it ever pops up for sale, I’ll know. It’s not a particularly unique Elise, but it was mine.

The Cri-Cri is the smallest twin engine airplane. There’s even a jet version! Empty weight of ~178 lbs

For what it’s worth, SVS and EVS are separate things. Synthetic vision, like the Garmin has, is simply for situational awareness. It’s a computer-generated synthetic picture of the terrain and runway. There are no operational advantages with this, excepting increased SA.

Any car so long as you have the proper set of tools:

Counter point.

The C3 Corvette always had a special place in my heart for that very fact. Not specifically what you mentioned, but along the same lines.

I have a 2002 Excursion (apparently 42 inches longer than an H1). Fun fact, the antenna is an inch or so higher than the car. In the vast majority of parking garages that means that every support, pipe, sign, guy from Up, and barrier makes for a puckering SCRAAAPPE-ohcrapamIgoingtoteartheroofoff noise. They also seem…

Well, it has wheels (3 wheels good?): Vans RV-4 top speed 201mph on 150hp

Nope - Challenger 605

To top the thing off costs roughly a new Ford Fiesta.

The one I fly is 375 gallons for the first hour, and that's still not t00 bad.

"You will literally - not figuratively - literally shit bricks."

$4300 per occupied hour is pretty decent. The Phenom 300 is one of the most fuel efficient jets of its class. (Phenom 100, Mustang et all are less expensive, but way smaller, slower, and worse performance).