I am a Jalop. I read a couple other car magazines. While this is instantly recognizable as a McLaren, I can’t tell the difference between it and any other McLaren from the last 6 years. The McLaren styling can best be described as functional blob. Lots of curves and lines and whatnot.

“not even ABS.”

M badges on non-M BMWs.

Yeah, the entire field of quality assurance was designed to ensure standards are met regardless of which country or how competent or motivated your work force happens to be. India builds their own space rockets and satellites. They can figure out a Harley. If the product is shit, the process to build it and qualify it…

A far easier approach is to NOT COUNT unbelted fatalities as auto fatalities. Instead create a new “idiot” category for them. Lumping them in with belted occupants unfairly penalizes the auto industry and leads to idiotic things like automatic seat belts.

“ ... common charging plug standards, car-to-car communication ... “

There are SAE standards that *most* car companies adhere to. Same way ALDL connections are common across all cars with standard OBD-2 compliance and your gas fill caps are all a standard size. There is a standard charging connector (CCS1/2, CHAdeMO) too. I’m not following.

They’ve already begun shooting

Well, you’ll be glad to know that Leonard DiCaprio is way ahead on those plans. And no, that’s not a joke.

I didn’t say they were the same car, asshole. If they’re so gung-ho on buying a fully electric vehicle, I don’t see why a Bolt is not an alternative, but an ICE is.

(Torque x RPM)/5252. Most cars peak HP near red line and peak torque somewhere much lower, if the RPM’s keep going up, torque can fall off and still make more power [Especially above 5252 RPM]. So your logic doesn’t work. Though I won’t disagree that it is probably hand drawn.

X axis is time, not RPM. the second blue graph is RPM. This is more like datalogging visualization than a true “Dyno sheet”

I learned all about the frit when I was building a custom fastback for my car. The rear glass was a bear. The first one was made from a custom cut RV windshield. It shattered during the build. The second one was made again from a custom cut RV windshield, and I used a special “frit paint” along the edge. The…

This was great. You know why? Because, for all of 2 minutes, I wasn’t thinking about the next four years.

The potato one actually has some basis to it. I’ve read somewhere that on the early days of the automobile (when cars were still called automobiles), before the invention of the wipers or for cars that hadn’t them (like the Ford T), people rubbed potatoes on their windshields for that very same reason: To repel the…

I’m a Proud Southern Conservative White Guy(TM), but f*ck stereotypes all around. I just wrote my Congresspeople (all Republicans) urging them to stall Trump as much as possible, if not outright oppose him. If you want to reform immigration, great! But if you want to be an authoritarian asshole to everyone as part of…

And Mazda has no problems with good fuel economy. They have the highest average fuel economy despite selling no hybrids, EV’s, or alternative fuel powered vehicles.

If that was actually the case Saudi Arabia would have been on the ban list, considering most of the 9/11 hijackers came from there.

Uh...alternative facts?