That’s a rosier picture than I would paint. For full fat production tooling you’re looking at 6mo+ in some cases.

I’m sure you wrote him off 6 months ago too. “Grab em by the pussy? NO WAY he gets elected!”

This is awesome. Thank you. I don’t understand why this is such a hard leap to make. If you can’t respect how dangerous your enemy is, even if he is an idiot man-child, you’re fucked. See: 2016 election results.

The fuck are you talking about? I said that they might be starting to grasp the idea of a coherent administration and pointed out how that could potentially lead to his policies gaining traction. He was able to win the presidency by basically standing in front of people and spewing facist verbal diarrhea for a few…

I’ll reply to the original since things are getting fractured down page but I think you’re onto something with the idea that they’re starting to get a grasp of things and potentially get some traction with their policies and how that’s a bad thing. The only upside is that a coherent argument for a policy can perhaps…

Does anybody else think it’s absurd to have a former Chrysler engineer review their current products?

Counterpoint: You generally don’t have to worry about the condition of new cars.

So the actual number is going up, but hows that relate to miles driven? Is the rate of deaths actually rising or has cheap gas and a recovering economy allowed people to drive more than before? The literal number of people is pretty meaningless in a statistical sense.

Or we could just move away from DRL’s and mandate headlights on all the time.

Welll since a modern truck is 8' wide...

Sure. The key is an adequately sized trail with nothing too soft and minimal articulation required. Forget hitting the Rubicon, think logging roads. The heavy weight and stiff springs are the handicapper here. Get into soft stuff (mud/wet ground) and you’ll sink and you’re done. Try to articulate and you’ll just…

Bingo. It’s just a way to drive off the lot with the mud tires and light bars that they’d otherwise have to add themselves after the fact.

Bingo. I miss the power of mine (Tuned LMM) but I was OK leaving the ride behind.

You’re well off and have a need to pull a trailer (horses, RV, racecar, etc) but you like having tough looking truck that has at least a little capability to hit fire roads/very mild trails back to your hunting spot. You don’t want to double up vehicles but you still want to drive something nice especially for longer…

You linked to Schindler’s article about how the intelligence community is turning on Trump, but you do realize that is an opinion piece that references information from “friends in the IC” by a guy who claimed last September that Snowden is a Russian pawn...right?

I hate to tell you but engineering is engineering and passion has little to do with it. Once you zoom in far enough it’s all down to design fundamentals. Where you don’t have those, you research. SpaceX and Tesla’s rapid advancement can be attributed more to the aggressive leadership structure and willingness to…

Cool. They’re doing something that’s typically signals that you’re 12-18 months out from production. Even if you halve that by cutting corners and throwing money at it there is no way they hit a June mass production date. If they were running MP intent tooling without texture you’re looking at 12-16 weeks to finish…

I realize I’m internet commenting on a week old topic but I just saw the notification. At the end of the day you do you. I suppose I’m a little more forgiving and I was just trying to project that onto you. I tend not to follow the “Fool me twice, shame on me” policy if I have a long history with a store or brand…

Quire right. They definitely don’t have to be homologated for each and every model year for emissions and safety equipment either. Best they can do is try to avoid using the model year in advertising but fundamentally the idea of “abandoning” the model year format as a whole is impossible.

5250 doesn’t really matter. It’s just a scaling factor. You could just as easily label that Y axis with a “x 5250". You may have already realized it but one thing to remember with the plot above is that it isn’t a normal power vs rpm trace, it’s power vs time with rpm plotted on a separate chart. Cheungs point,…