I believe the Germans classify him as a torpedo.

Yup, this.  But also tell the son not to take YouTube at its word.  Learning to recognize good and bad advice on the internet is an important life skill, and it probably comes faster if you’re already over the hurdle of assuming that your sources are always right.

If you can even filter any advice out of the complaints about how they don’t make them like they used to.

This sounds a lot like American politics. If the analogy holds, the solution will involve adding more union leaders and giving them more power.

I want to see David Tracy take this through the TUV.

The 3.41-mile road course has taken the place of one of Texas Motor Speedway’s points-scoring events, and while it’s not one of NASCAR’s longest road courses, it is one of its most technical.

So true. Even before 2020, it was good protocol. I once posted a thread on a historic racing forum to thank a driver that was kind to us, and I got bitched out for just using his name for the title. Everybody thought he had died.

Agree on the Mk4.  I liked the previous two generations, but I hated the Mk4 the moment it came out.  I like the engine, but I don’t care for the styling and I’ve never read a review that said it was fun to drive.  I hate the taillights and I hate the nose.  It always looked like an off-brand generic toy car to me.

I had a set with U-bolts instead of hooks that didn’t break the bank, but gave me a lot more confidence than these.

I don’t think you’re an idiot, but Bottas could certainly be World Chamion in that car if he were paired with an equally or more mediocre driver. The truth is we don’t usually get to learn much about relative quality of anybody other than teammates because the difference in cars is usually more than the difference in…

Holy cats, that thing is no joke:

I grew up next to a T intersection with a house and driveway opposite, and my parents still live there, and to my knowledge nobody has ever overshot it. What in the hell is going on in this town?

Every time I see something like this now I want to throw in that electric crate motor and a ton of batteries.

A friend of mine had this engine/trans combo and it was a total dog... in an Omni. This must be just painfully slow. I’m also concerned about the passenger rear door. I know Chrysler build quality around this era was poor, but I’m wondering whether there was an impact around that door and maybe even the rear quarter…

What you say would be true if the torque wrench broke based on the torque at the head, but it doesn’t in the case of click-type torque wrenches (the most common kind). On a click-type wrench it breaks based on the torque at a pivot where the head joins the shaft.

It was really embarrassing since I was a MECH-E arguing with an ELEC. It’s a funny little thing because (to me anyway), I totally get how common sense could say a bigger bar gives you more torque, but the engineer in me says that if the bar breaks when the torque at the drive exceeds an amount, then it will just hit…

Related point that I once lost an argument about: your torque wrench will not be accurate if you extend the handle with a cheater bar. I lost a big argument about this in the process of learning how torque wrenches actually work. Because the point where the wrench breaks is not coaxial with the drive, the ratio of the…

Can’t we have both? I’m an engineer and I appreciate good engineering and most of it worked great in this crash. That said, there were two clear failures: the failure of the armco, resulting in the car being torn in half, and the failure to control fuel in the crash, resulting in the giant fireball. And yet he walked…

Is this the start of Final Destination: 2020?

I definitely like rawness and pushing limits, and I am especially against rules enforcing parity or homogeneity, but I also get concern for safety.  That’s why I prefer reducing the size of the engines, or limiting the amount or rate of fuel, and letting the manufacturers figure out everything else.