Humans can take 10g; fighter pilots train to sustain as much as 9g and retain consciousness. There was some conjecture that though the initial breakup of Challenger during its disastrous final flight may have subjected them to as much as 20g for a moment, at least some members of Challenger’s crew survived until…

I never did the math on that pressure vessel but I knew it would be big.  And while I’ve made my peace with sitting on a gas tank full of flammable fuel, the idea of sitting inside a car whose back seat is completely displaced by a pressure tank holding 6000 psi...oof.  I won’t grab hold of energized hydraulic lines…

kinja’d

“Why GM seems to be a follower and not a leader here in the US,” that’s a multi-pronged question with a hydra for an answer.

Panhard puts the Fun in Funereal.

Panhard puts the Fun in Funereal.

Panhard puts the Fun in Funereal.

I always thought the round headlights weren’t as attractive on Jettas as on the Golfs, though they’re essentially identical from the doors forward. Don’t ask me why, I can’t explain it. But it doesn’t look bad so it’s not a big deal, a mod I wouldn’t have made but not one I actively dislike so I wouldn’t change it.

Springs under tension, my man.

You might be confused but if you have had to deal with Deere for anything I assure you that the above scenario is plausible.

Yes.

+1 RAV4 Hybrid.  Mileage, biggish, ground clearance.  Shopping’s done.

Kinja’d. Here’s the link I tried to insert talking about scamanufacturers:

The EV startup craze was always a tenuous notion; the moment the mainstream manufacturers get into EVs for real, the startups’ days weren’t necessarily numbered, but their suppliers’ meetings calendars filled up with bigger fish. Now that Ford has applied their second-most lucrative name to an EV that isn’t terrible…

You usually run ag tires around 10-20 psi.  But a blowout this energetic is why truck tires, inflated to 90-120psi, are pumped up inside a containment cage.

Same, as a kid at a gas station pumping up my tire, regulator on the inflator was toast, blew the bike tire completely apart, bent the wheel a bit even. And once just tooling down the road - just last year as it happens. Car in front of my had a tire blow explosively, the sound was absolutely stunning and I was about…

Same, as a kid at a gas station pumping up my tire, regulator on the inflator was toast, blew the bike tire completely apart, bent the wheel a bit even. And once just tooling down the road - just last year as it happens. Car in front of my had a tire blow explosively, the sound was absolutely stunning and I was about…

You think tires are expensive, have you shopped for John Deere glass? Not just automotive glass which is bad enough, John Deere glass which doubtlessly has pro-ag anti-competition chemical treatments that render it both unobtainable from any other source in the entire goddamn universe and expensive enough to question…

You think tires are expensive, have you shopped for John Deere glass? Not just automotive glass which is bad enough, John Deere glass which doubtlessly has pro-ag anti-competition chemical treatments that render it both unobtainable from any other source in the entire goddamn universe and expensive enough to question…

Hard no.