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Any “pilot” who can’t fly without GPS has no business flying. This will have minimal impact on commercial aviation because they can use VORs for en route navigation and shoot the ILS at their destination. Yeah, they’ll have to think a little more because it’s not as simple as just following the magenta line, but…

Yeah, I was wondering where that measurement came from. Maybe five feet from the Orion’s starboard wingtip? Because it’s sure as hell not five feet from that camera view.

Did anyone give anyone else the finger?

LOL @ 5 feet.

wow sounds like america is salty that russia did some sick maneuvers in front of our lame ass plane

Because this is ‘Murica where we need a new car and need it now because heaven forbid my car only has a 5" touchscreen and 17" wheels. I mean can you imagine if I pulled up to work in a 2011?! The horror!

[shakes cane at young whippersnapper]

I mean, I get it for some of that stuff, but at the same time that’s just a bit extravagant. Do you really need to race balance tires to drive your car on the street? No, a dynamic balance machine at a tire shop will work just fine. Do you have to have an entire team of engineers set your car up to work perfectly on…

Or I’d just LS swap it and listen to people cry forever.

The whole tire change explanation sounded like a bunch of bullshit to me....they don’t even balance the tires of actual F1 cars the way he explained.

Wow the whole tire mounting and “balancing to the car” is a load of BS. I’m all for balancing, even road force balance. They are tires. They have a weight. They could be balanced to spin on the head of a pin, and that’s all you’d need.  But McLaren is just taking you for a ride for THIER engineers to joyride your car…

If its a convertible it would keep someone walking by from messing with it. The console locks with a key. Most of the time convertible ownership means having the doors unlocked nearly 100 percent of the time because you would rather someone just open the door than jus take a pocket knife or scissors to your soft top.

This guy knows almost nothing about the F1.

“You don’t want to splice into something that’s providing electricity all the time”

So....

For me, I think, personally, that makes it appealing to me on a personal level.

Yup. Though when I see people I sold to I don’t have to hide. So that’s nice.

must be a really cool (and smooth-cranking) start-up...

I can’t imagine that would go well. Salt flats are a lot more squirrely than tarmac even under normal high-speed conditions; there’s not nearly as much grip. I’m not sure these cars could get anywhere close to their top speed at Bonneville, and if they tried, I think it would be nearly impossible to hold them in a…