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    Delving into British advertising, which is probably a bit esoteric for this thread, but a red toyobaru doesn’t seem the right car for Winston Wolfe; bit of a downgrade from the NSX in the film, although even then, that doesn’t seem that good a fit.

    That spoiler is manually adjustable and has 12 positions, with incline angles all the way from zero to 60 degrees.

    You kinda hit rocket sled territory there, I think, although things get into a bit of a grey area. I believe the record there sits at 6,599 mph:

    I kinda think it’d be fun to put a koenigsegg freevalve engine in a triumph dolomite; the freevalve testbed is built aroung a saab H engine, which is a derivative of the triumph slant-4 engine used in the dolomite 1850 & sprint, so it’d kinda be joining the origin and bleeding edge of the same basic engine round in a

    Is anyone else seeing what I’m seeing, and hoping what I’m hoping?

    “Autonomous” is usually used with regards to AI/robotics as meaning operating without human control, but it is also used to mean self-contained, not relying on an external power source, processing etc; I’d guess that’s what they’re meaning here.

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    I know they’re not actually pop-ups, but I just want to drop this here:

    This is going to sound really picky, but around the 2:35 mark, there’s something really weird going on with the image stabilisation, and it’s making me queasy.

    Nothing in life exists in isolation, and nothing is truly clean; everything’s tainted in some way, and probably the best you can do is be aware of it, learn from it, and try to be better. You can take interest in the tech without endorsing the system that created it; take the space program and the V-rockets, but you

    Hmm;

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    Top gear had a spin-off for Sports Relief called Stars in Fast Cars, which had head-to-head celeb racing, along with various other car-based challenges like car bowling & autocross; wound up a full blown series, but didn’t last long:

    Does anyone else feel that the spoiler looks too narrow & small? looks like it should stretch the full width, or be an electric pop-up or something. 

    Gagarin had a Matra Djet:

    1800kg (~4000lb) for a braked trailer

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