It looks like a sad take on hamburger gravy with some oven baked steamed French fries and a dab of ketchup.

Well your just gonna have to sell me on that.

Y’know as an alternative I think the property tax rate should be indexed to income (SALT deduction aside) while property taxes are largely seen as a progressive form of taxation they really hamper big purchases for lower income people or even people of average income and form a barrier to climbing the economic ladder.

Low hanging fruit - MS13 has a nasty and well known reputation.

We do care! By recklessly destroying the environment and making it inhospitable towards billions of humans the threat we pose will diminish or be eliminated.

As long as the net reductions meet the requirements it’s all good.

In NoVa the route sign dictates the suggested speed. On 95 for instance you had best being doing 95 or you will get run over!

This! Not to mention the blatant speed traps which seems to be a specialty in Virginia (Emporia you know who you are!).

Where is the speed trap side bar?

Yeah... no...

Fine for the aftermarket where longevity and emissions aren’t an issue but in the OE world pushrod engines are hitting a brick wall.

You can google it but there have been mostly unsuccessful attempts to develop variable lift systems for push rod engines. The most simple method involves altering the bleed down rate for a hydraulic tappet and then using that to alter the lift/duration and since it sits before the rocker arm a small amount of movement…

Sorta related but this reminds me of the 5 or move valve cylinder heads that were explored in the 90's and IIRC culminating with the 8 valve head Honda had developed for its motorcycle program (which required an oval shaped combustion chamber).

Somehow I was expecting more road rage...

Sigh... consulted a psychic huh? I’d just like to point out Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan used to consult “psychics” and look how fucked up the country has turned out as a result.

Well that is an inevitability. I doubt very seriously the US is going to survive in its current state for much longer. Many democracies devolve into oligarchies and fail. The worst part about the US is that it isn’t old enough to have had say a feudal society and a monarchy where the gentry eventually came to the…

You only looking at it in terms of performance #’s (in any event it is a city car and works as intended) - the brilliance of the i3 is in its individual components and production method. BMW has it so nailed down even with the small production numbers they don’t bleed money.

I remember going to South Carolina where my mom and stepdad live with my fiancee. We literally were counting the number of black and Hispanic people we saw that weren’t related to me. I think I saw 5 black people who weren’t my kinfolk. We didn’t see anyone Hispanic.

All of which is true and Tesla has a lot of ground to cover when better engineered and built mainstream EVs hit the market and bite into its market share.

Don Garlits IIRC