Rubbing is racing!

Rewind a little, and think of structural engineering. If you want to span a wide area, doing it with a slender horizontal structure is not very efficient; you’d do much better to use a structure that’s quite tall/deep. (The best historic example is an arch). This is stronger and more efficient.

You get an extra star just for the Budapest-Bamako rally reference :-)

I need an ICON Unimog. How many of my kidneys do I have to sell?

Perhaps not, but the whole point of an auction is that it’s got to be sold by the end of the day. Offering a product “no reserve” - and then refusing to accept the highest bid - is treating the bidders badly.

Yes. Any auction I use, “No reserve” really means “no reserve”.

There are a few owners out there who do their own work, or use independent mechanics. The engine and transmission are rock solid. The only downside is the ABC, which is not easy to work on.

the first Ford Transit to be officially turned into a school bus.

Why, exactly, was this person arrested?

Why would BMW do this? Why? I know BMW have veered into overstyling in the last few years, but usually it’s just overstyled little details, rather than turning the whole front of the car into a collection of random creases and vents and arches and pouts...

It has three 5MW azimuthing electric thrusters - a bit like the thrusters on many modern ferries and cruise-ships - so it can certainly move under its own power, for certain values of “move”. However, these thrusters are primarily for positioning once hooked up at the gas field, not for moving from port to port.

Enough Hilux. We need more 70-series. They’re indestructible. I miss my old one.

Prelude FLNG. 488 metres long; 74 metres wide; 600,000 ton displacement, making it “the heaviest thing man has ever built that floats.” (That’s six times the displacement of a Nimitz).

That’s fully laden. The extra weight gives extra stability. It still has a few metres of freeboard (doesn’t look so much, but that’s only because the freeboard is dwarfed by the size of everything else).

Wow, so keen to prove your expertise to strangers on the internet. You should be careful about that.

The British have the perfect ship to lead a surprise invasion:

Thanks, Fightingforcesadviser! A mishmash of copy-pastes from wikipedia shows just what a trusted expert you are.