That was one hell of a ride.

That’s the only sense that matters.  So long as the seat doesn’t fall through the floor and the windshield stays in its frame and all the mechanical bits work as advertised, you’re good.

Does that seem like a way of shooting itself in the foot, making it easier for H-D buyers to not buy a new bike?

I was always more attracted to the Saturn Sky which was, in my opinion, a far more handsome car, styling-wise. But this isn’t bad.

I was always more attracted to the Saturn Sky which was, in my opinion, a far more handsome car, styling-wise. But this isn’t bad.

If Tracy tells you to seek help, go.

This is the kind of guy who, assuming GM doesn’t somehow shit on his enthusiasm and turn him into a model-specific supervillain, goes on to become a guru or, as Malcolm Gladwell would describe him, a Maven.

It was already a hotel.

What about drydocking in situ? I’m coming pretty much out of nowhere on this but could it be provided with a firm foundation where it sits?

I do and don’t like the idea of standardized EV cell packs. It’s a good idea in that it would introduce an enormous economy of scale, but it would also add many more points of failure in additional electrical connections, additional cooling connections, and of course any standardized pack is going to come up wanting…

It’s desirable and the list of new items is impressively long but...when you’re including such minutiae as “new blinker lens” to pad the list, you lose my respect.

You might be thinking of autorotation, which is a helicopter thing but not a fixed wing thing. In the event of power loss, a helicopter’s rotor freewheels and the craft’s descent and how the blades are pitched keep them spinning. As the chopper gets close to the ground, the spin built up in the rotor represents a lot…

As much as I want to like Tesla the car, I’m learning very quickly to hate Tesla the company and, even more so, Tesla the philosophy.

At $6500 I’d say easy Nice Price. $1900 more and I’m not so sure.

Ah yes, the 6000 SUX.

I would’ve taken the misandry angle except there are no Boys Next Door features to refer to.

I think it was Engine Masters or whoever it was, one of those engine building shows, that spent way more time and money you’d ever expect anyone to lavish on a 305. Using pretty straightforward upgrades they got a 305 pumping 300 horsepower and it sounded terrific. It sounded like it had a fair amount of overhead…

Spend a little time fabricating and get it down low in a pocket through the floor of the trunk, you even improve the CG a bit. In fact the added weight of the V8 is right on the front wheels but moving the battery would shift its 30 pounds way far aft, you might actually move the CG quite a lot with that change. Hmm.

The V8 adds weight but the Duke wasn’t exactly a lightweight as fours go. It weighed in at a solid 350 ; the lowest-tier V8, the 305 screwed into GM pickups in ‘92 only weighed about 100 pounds more. So yeah, it was a significant amount of extra weight in the nose but maybe not as bad an addition as we might think.

A Wes Craven movie.