0w-8 engine oil? wow, that’s basically water. I wonder how these will work with 200k on the clock.

A friend of mine contacted me asking me to put nitrous on a dodge dart. He wanted his mid life crisis sleeper and stoplight to stop light drag monster. I sent him the video of Chris Harris beating the shit out of one of these on the track and told him that he’d be looking at the tail lights of one of these things if…

The only way to do it right is to find a bus that isn’t clapped out and build it yourself. And then spend so much time and money you realize that you should have just been flying to SE Asia and having more fun backpacking.

So Toyota, why can’t I buy a Hybrid work truck? The work truck users being the ones that actually care about mileage and towing capacity. It’s great they offer a Hybrid on the super premium fancy models. What about the rest of us?

That rear roll down window seems like such a good idea until you realize that you can’t drive with it down. You’ll suck in dust and exhaust fumes like crazy.

Been shopping for pickup trucks lately? This is the luxury model and ya that’s kind of what they go for. Given the cost of operation, the electric truck is still way the fuck cheaper than the $80k ICE truck at the 200,000 mark.

(note this is at sea level)

A early 2000's Honda Civic will get 50km more per tank on 89 vs 87 and 0 extra km on 91 vs 89. That was when the cars were new.

Never forget, the electric driveline has little to do with the body repair costs. (battery damage excluded). BAD DESIGN has everything to do with repair costs. Want to remove the rear bumper on a Rivian? Start by... removing the rear window.

Turn that into a durable cargo van. If Honda can engineer a good sliding door, anyone can.

Even if we don’t end up with full self driving cars, we ended up with extremely good driver assistance systems that can reduce the amount of drunks and sleepy drivers from creaming vans full of kids. GM’s supercruise system can go hands off on most mapped highways. That is impressive as hell. Show up at your…

There is absolutely no need to use a flipper zero. Any Raspberry pi, an old android phone, or almost any hackable wifi device can broadcast a fake wifi network. There is actually no real advantage of using a flipper zero here. 

If you are making car payments your entire life, you ARE an idiot. Buy a reasonable car, pay it off, drive it until the wheels fall off.

Starlinks satellites are all in extremely low orbit. Best case scenario they make it 5 years before drag pulls them back into the atmosphere. That is by design.

Buy a LFP lithium battery. Most have a ‘reserve’ feature where they will shut off at 20% remaining. Press the button and it wakes up. They are 1/3 the weight, 1/2 the size and are at least double the lifespan but a good LFP battery can last 20 years.

The operational ‘cost’ of that air ambulance ride is a few grand at most. Flight time on a bird like that is the biggest cost. Maybe $1500-$1800/hr. Plus staff.

Yes! Now please make some awesome vans. All auto makers need to do is make performance model options with a few fancy toys added in to reduce the soccer mom stigma.

A cheap boat is the most expensive boat you ever purchased. 

Um...has anyone told the CEO of Honda (or Toyota) that there are like 50,000 EV charging stations and maybe like a dozen hydrogen fuel stations left?

I think autonomous racing can be fun, or have remote controlled cars with human drivers in VR, right at the track (for low latency).