I’m down for the Trabbi. Weird and slow, that’s my jam.

If you already have the money in hand and don’t want to spend it all at once, secured loan.  My son got his car financed about three years ago and his rate was around 2.00%

The SuperChargers are where Tesla really made the smartest decision. Initially offering Tesla cars with free lifetime supercharging: genius. Now the people who decry electrics because of their short range have lost a lot of their volume because whoomp, there it is. Go in and sit down and enjoy your coffee; come back…

The original landspeeder from 1978:

The original landspeeder from 1978:

A drag coefficient is the ratio of a body’s experienced drag vs. a flat plate of equal frontal area. With a result as good as 0.28 and knowing that wire wheels are pretty draggy - because they are - that ought to tell you that the rest of the vehicle is in fact very slick and would score much better with modern,…

See up there where I called it a Rumpler Tropfenwagen?

You went the direction I was hoping you would, Torch: make the front bed a universally available concept for all builders to pursue if they so choose.  If you can’t make a mint on an idea you had, nobody else should get sole property of it either.  But they can absolutely duke it out with each other over who can build…

Oh, absolutely. The difference between Musk and most other hucksters is that he can keep banging away at his claims with his essentially endless resources and force them to happen. He maybe can’t make them happen in the market, but he can make them happen in demonstrations and that’s often all the excitable really…

Up until relatively recently the 1921 Rumpler Tropfenwagen held the record for the most aerodynamic vehicle ever sold.  With a drag coefficient of 0.28, it compensated for its overall size and lack of power with general slipperiness:

Did you see any rust on that Festiva? You did not.

The deck wheels are digging into the yard pretty hard.  You know the solution to that: MORE TAR.

If I get beyond the Moon, returning alive is not on my list of goals. Dying on a new planet will be my way of contributing, forever, to the good of the planet. My mass of organic compounds and water, let them nourish the rest forever.

I wish I could find the statement now but it struck me as very important when I read it: Musk looked at Tesla not as a car company, but an energy company. When you think about it it makes a lot of sense; Americans use a lot of energy in their homes but the one thing they really use energy in, is their cars. My Prius…

I know I might be going out on a limb with this but:

I misunderstood the point of the post and am very very sorry.

My dude.  One guy in the back paying attention, folks, there he is.

Upsides: Wisconsin cheese curds

Take sufficient pressure to cause a diamond to flow plasticly, and apply that to a volume of hydrogen to compress it into a metallic solid.

Trained in the delicate art of disregarding mere noise.

At 6:27 you won me over, Torch. It was that quick.