Not just any Bugatti Type 59 Sports (and I realize the irony of that statement), but apparently the same car driven by Rene Dreyfus to win the 1934 Belgian Grand Prix.

For a summer of fun (provided the engine isn’t a grenade with the pin pulled 3/4 the way out) or two summers of fun, why the hell not.  NP.

Perhaps the hub mounted engine will act a bit like a flywheel?  But good point on sprung v. unsprung weight.

First Amendment doesn’t protect hate speech or inciting speech (e.g. the apocryphal “Fire in a crowded theater”), so they can take their 1A talk and shove it up their snowflake asses. 

Robert Fripp is low-key one of the world’s greatest living guitarists

And what did we learn about double-negatives in grammar school?  Two wrongs don’t make a right, but two negatives make a positive.

(a) Clearly you have not watched Blackadder
(b) If you argued you disliked Rowan Atkinson because he wrecked a McLaren F1, then you could be excused for your opinion.

Find yourself a vintage Technics SL10 clamshell turntable that will run off of 12VDC like this, and you’re golden.

Rob - get yourself a good solder-sucker (I like the Engineer SS-02, personally) and you will never use solder wick again. Much less mess and much less chance of overheating a component or lifting a trace.

I can’t believe nobody is commenting on the troll bait of Solo being the best Disney-era Star Wars movie.

<ahem> Rogue One <ahem>

I’m wondering if the Commendatore was a direct response to the Nazca C2?
(e.g. Mercedes V12 vs. BMW/Alpina V12)

I’m wondering if (a) Isdera was inspired by the Auto Union Type D and if (b) the Unnamed Swiss Bastard Investor (USBI) was inspired again by the prewar Auto Union racecars in renaming the Commendatore to Silver Arrow.

Auto Union Type D:

Is that a marriage thing, or a Texas thing?  I’m going with the latter.

The cybertruck is supposed to be a hostile design. It’s supposed to stick out from the surrounding environment, not mimic it. I think Frank’s ideal truck design would be something like the late 90's F-150.

Well, if we’re calling the design ‘art for art’s sake’ then it is neither bad nor good because all art is subjective.

Now the engineering on the other hand...

Except analysis of the design indicates that the Cd is somewhere approaching 0.4, which is not great.

I don’t think anyone would refer to American culture as ‘austere and buttoned-down’.

Prudish about sex, yes, but not austere and buttoned down.

I mean, we could simply start with, “Ugly as fuck” and put a pin in that before we move on to all the other criticisms.

Yup, exactly.  Thank you for the better image!

It’s not just servicing those two villages - it’s basically shortening the travel time/distance to the entire area circled below (yes, you have to get on a boat to get to some of the islands):