did a bit of reading and crankshaft gazing... Thanks for making the distinction!

By the definitions I read, my 911 is a true boxer motor. Nifty! ☺

I was reading that about flat vs. Boxer. I learned something today. ☺

Subaru doesn't make an H4 - they make a flat 4, or a boxer 4.

Just wait until 3 cylinder engines hit the mainstream!

"Hey bro, what you got under the hood?"

It's an automatic AND a manual!

It was a Russian car... made in Soviet times, and it was brake drums.

Sorry, I've been pushing heavy metal for the last few years. (Navy P-3s)

ask Doug Demuro about that depreciation. It sounds like he's breaking even on modern exotics.

Pilot made an oopsie.... Sunbather made a nearly life ending decision. Sunbather gets my vote for being dumber.

Definitely a failure of ORM on the part of the sunbather.

Even the best pilots make mistakes sometimes. In my flight training they taught you to look for these kinds of situations early and that "go arounds" are free (unless you're out of gas.) In layman's terms: if it doesn't look safe, just power up, climb to a safe altitude, and try again.

I choose to think that he was practising his short field technique and got a bit carried away. (At least I hope so!) If not, then that's a really poor regular approach!

I hear from reliable sources that boats are holes in the water that you pour money into... however, I only have firsthand experience with airplanes... I don't know how any mortal affords even the simplest of certified aircraft*. My dad had to do a Airworthiness Directive (AD) fix on his Cessna 195 for aileron hinge…

I can also work on my car without a special license. My dad is a pilot with a full Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) certificate also - it was necessary for his younger life as a bush pilot first in Africa then in Alaska. He couldn't afford to own a plane without being able to do his own work, and neither can I.

I'm just…

Expensive mistake. Nearly priceless.

Hopefully they'll learn from the new F-150 and start making the pony car out of Aluminum. Just imagine how awesome that would be! :)

It's funny how a car's reputation ebbs and flows. I run with a group of Porsche enthusiasts for whom a classic 911 is nothing special... But wow, they love the 912s of the same era. I know it isn't reflected in prices yet, but is seems like the serious Porsheophiles actually love 912s more than 911s.

I think as long as you have an internal combustion engine with a fixed (or slightly adjustable, like VTEC) camshaft timing, you're always going to have a torque and HP "curve". A CVT is the only way to get exact points on that power curve (read RPM) regardless of the car's speed.

We can hope! :)