Every time I read or hear someone claiming to “break physics”, I mentally refile whatever I’m seeing from “Informative article” to “Hyperbolic nonsense”. The car is cool, I have no problem with linking Youtube videos, but meaningless hyperbole should have died with Top Gear.

“This Wind-Powered Car Goes Fast Enough To Break Physics”

No, nothing has been broken here. I feel dumber for having read this article. 

The UAW is one of the most corrupt unions

You missed a few things which any old trucker could’ve told you. First off, in trucker parlance, these are called “Maxis”, as opposed to the non-spring brakes, which were just called “cans”. On your typical 18-wheelers, you’ll find maxis on only the last drive axle and the 2 trailer axles, never on the steer, and…

Look the simple story here is that octane rating is a means to prevent pre-ignition. Any car with OBDII will tell you if you are doing it wrong because it will have knock sensors to detect pre-ignition. The best tuning you can hope for is as much timing advance as you can get before pre-ignition. Thats the point of…

exactly.

I think you’re engine has issues, I ran e10 in ours all the time.  pre and post supercharger.

Seriously, the Suburban of all things would probably run fine on goat piss. 

If your engine is naturally aspirated and not high compression, running anything other than the recommended 87 is throwing money away. It’s that simple.

Sorry Liz, but Chris is wrong. Engines are designed to run on the recommended octane rating, no more no less. Getting premium gas when the engine doesn’t call for it is simply a waste of money and yields little, if any, benefits.

There was an entire chapter in the original Freakonomics book about the socioeconomic impact of lead

The lead is to prevent detonation. Without it the aviation engines rattle with engine knock. It’s not a matter that the engine will stop - the engine will be damaged simply by running on low-detonation-resistant fuel.

Thing is, if you bomb it, you now have 200,000T of ship sunk across the bottom of the canal, rather than simply wedged into the sides. Doesn’t seem like much of an improvement.

Two thoughts:

Given that there's no indication anyone was caught, perhaps they rightfully trusted their skills?

It seems the original thief didn’t get caught...  

No, not it’s not. Farmworkers pay the driver a few bucks to car/vanpool to the fields or packing house. It’s very, very common in ag areas.

Farmworkers going from job to job. 

This. It’s every bit as likely (probably more likely) that these were farm workers being driven to the next farm.

People want cheap produce. This is the cost.