Everyone is, yet again, wrong.

I’d be happy to sacrifice the extra safety weight in order to have more fuel efficiency. I never died once while driving/riding in the old “unsafe” cars, and not for a lack of crashing. And if I had, so what? This planet is already lousy with humans, to the point of approaching unsustainability. Give me better fuel…

I rented one of these in Costa Rica to get to Monte Verde and traverse the central mountain range down to the coast. What a lot of fun that was - like riding on the back of a Billy Goat!

“warning: he really hates toys”

The market for it is very limited, since you need to know how to drive stick.

Welcome to Jalopnik, Mr. Pence.

So good. Every NFS title around that era was amazing.

Does anybody still remember NFS5: Porsche Unleashed? Most of what I know about Porsches comes from that game.

To be honest, most of the sci-fi from that time period has a grim view of humanity: Soylent Green, Logan’s Run, Silent Running, Planet of the Apes, The Andromeda Strain, Zardoz, Clockwork Orange, Outland, Coma, Sleeper, and The Omega Man to name a handful; and yet, we consider most of these films to be top-notch…

Musk Misfire Makes Mark Mad

I wish people would stop pretending like Mark Zuckerburg built a satellite and was having Musk launch it for him. He rented the Ka-band beams on the satellite for 5 years to provide about 18gb/s for his Internet.org project.

Tractor trailer fires are often brake related, as in there’s an air pressure problem that doesn’t allow the trailer brakes to release. Also:

Today starts an official week for announcing an unpopular nerd opinion. Mine is that I LOVED the live action Yamato.

It’s a flawed movie, but it is one of two, maybe three, of the movies that seem to be trying to recreate the spirit of the original series, and it might be the one the hits closest to the mark, since TMP is probably trying a bit too hard and taking itself a bit too seriously.

For $3500 I’d buy it and park it out front in the driveway just to watch the homeowners association members heads explode.

Actually, Singer went with the 964 because the tub was already made to fit mostly what they had in mind... coil-overs, 6-speed G50 trans, duct work to fit real air-conditioning... basically all of the “modern” aspects they wanted to integrate into the “classic” aspects. The original prototype was an ‘87 Carrera that…

The main issue with the Bolt’s design is that it’s trying to be two things at once, and fails at being a practical B-segment hatchback just as much as it fails at being a practical electric car.

Same comment I left to Lightening Zone over on Oppo. My approximation of Johan de Nysschen’s reply to dealers:

Oil change about every 5k & all regular recommended service.