“Oh, I can see the strong family resemblance to your father in real life!”

And on the other hand, he is a total piece of shit...

I am curious what year you consider “vintage”. I can understand wanting to be able to have a large selection of cars to compare/shop from for clients.

Yes - I didn’t exactly know what it was, but now reading up, it makes more sense. What we are hearing is the ungodly boost of the supercharger + turbocharger combination. I love it.

Man, that Lancia at about 1:00 sounded like it had a hive of angry bees in the engine!

Yeah, wish I didn’t give him a view...It still boggles the mind that people make money doing stupid shit like this, but welcome to the modern world of idiocracy.

It’s like he got cut off at the bar, the bouncer already threw his ass out, and he is now stumbling around outside trying to get back in. Go home Roy Moore, you are done!

Yeah, I want to know who this mythical couple is that has $60k in income from two jobs, and also side hustles an additional $25k on the side in “non-corporate business” as well as running their own business. Does Sen Cornyn really think the gig economy pays that well?

“Betamax was the best and most popular video format for years, everyone loved it”

I love this thing because it is pretty much a full-size Electrathon race car, with much nicer cockpit. The first EV I ever “drove” was an Electrathon, and I am glad that there is still a small but loyal race community.

I think the backlash was about the name “bodega”, which raised the ire of those opposed to calling a product the same thing as the store they are seeking to replace. Something about white kids ostensibly trying to cut into businesses owned largely by immigrants...even though there is a competitor called Canteen that…

Yeah, the thing is that in a weird way, the world of old shitty cars NEEDS some people with hoarding issues like Ron in order to have parts/projects in the future. If everyone just either kept their cars in running condition or brought them to the scrapyard when they were done with them, there would be far fewer…

Just wanted to say that you nailed it : This curve was indeed rated at 30 MPH, according to Sound Transit. From this local article :

Seriously - thanks for this numbered diagram, as I have been having a hard time picturing the mechanics of this. It does explain why some cars went off the inside of the curve. I think there is one more train car though, further under the bridge, and unfortunately likely where a lot of the fatalities were, as photos…

At least for us, the ~70 mile range of the Leaf is totally fine. Though it is the car that we drive the most OFTEN, it is not the car that we drive the most miles. For that, we have a Mercedes 190D and Peugeot 505. But yeah, as an only vehicle, neither this nor the Leaf would cut it.

Just saw one of these in person for the first time yesterday, and I have to admit that I like the redesign. I spoke with the owner, who had just bought it a couple weeks ago and seemed to really like it. I asked her why she got it instead of a larger EV, and she said that between her and husband they own 3…

I admit I don’t know much about rail design, but this stretch looks like a mess. In Germany and France I rode the trains and was amazed at the speed and smoothness. There, the curves are taken at high speed, but they are banked and appear to have fairly consistent radius.This track section seems to be very “flat”, and…

There has been some substantiation that the train hit something, but it is not clear. The latest in the Oregonian reporting says :

Yeah, this is just about the worst place for this to happen, from a logistical point of view. Highway 507 on the east side of JBLM is a small 2 lane highway, and the towns and traffic control are not going to be able to handle the volume of cars. I take that route often when on motorcycle to avoid I5, and it is…

I believe they had been running test trains through there leading up to the first full run. This is terrible and it seems that we need to take some lessons from Europe before deploying these trains. 80MPH is not even really “high-speed”, yet we have an accident on the first day.