I’m not sure what’s worse - the lines or that people will / have to spend that much time just to get their cars charged. Regular gas stations need to all be adding electric charging capacity. Dear old Elon’s plans seemed like a good idea 5 years ago but he’s woefully behind now. The abominable charging infrastructure…

Reversing lights weren’t mandatory when this Golf was first made, so VW didn’t put them in. After ‘77 the law changed in Germany.

The mirrors on the RB10 F1 car were placed where they were, not so the drivers could use them (they couldn’t), but because of a loophole in the FIA regulations. The FIA regulations stipulated mirrors had to be present but didn’t stipulate where they had to be. Red Bull found a patch of already-turbulent air coming off…

Vehicle pedestrian safety design considerations have a lot to do with that. They’re also the reason that Musk’s truck will never look anything like that if he hopes to sell it outside the U.S.

So they really liked that old Sly Stallone movie I guess?

This has as much relevance to you and me as Porsche thrashing around the Nurburgring. Yeah - it sounds great but it makes zero different to the person buying the finished product. Especially when this is a custom-built one-off tubular-frame racing truck that probably shares zero parts in common with what will…

Wow. I didn’t realise that was a US-market thing now. That’s awesome. Now if only they’d not monetize it. It’s such a shame they rely on business-suit-blah colours as “normal” and then charge for actual colours. Still - at least the choice is there now. When I ordered my last car they were desperate to sell me one off…

That was sort of my point - it was nice to see more than just the blah colours. I’d get the yellow every time ... 

Month longer would be no problem. $14k extra is a joke.

The Golf R in Europe does, yes. Maybe Canada too but not here in the US.

Boring boring boring. A dozen shades of business suit. That’s what most manufacturers give us now, with the occasional blue or red. It’s like living in a black and white movie.

Slow clap. So they stuck some 3M to the inside of the window. Big fucking deal. Anti-shatter window film has been around since 1969.

Places gained or lost during the race. + means gained position. - means lost position.

Setting aside the PS1 design ethic, there’s a more obvious problem that I’ve not seen anyone address. The Whole Vehicle Type Approval system, the NHTSA and Euro-NCAP will never certify that truck with the exterior design it has right now. There are force limits for pedestrian impacts, and that front light bar / hood…

That won’t look anything like that if / when it ever sees production simply because the exterior design language is pedestrian-hostile. Vehicles have to conform to pedestrian safety regulations these days, and that truck is a who’s-who of how not to do that.

Understatement of the day. Fox Sports and it’s affiliates are known for cutting off the races if they go long. They also litter them with l-o-n-g ad breaks so we frequently miss on-track action. They cut the pre-race show to pieces with even longer ad breaks, and what’s perhaps the most insulting is that the streaming…

I’ll just leave this here.

I think we can answer that right now. No, not it does not.

Trimming the plane is hard to do when MCAS is overriding your trim motor inputs. The only solution (found by one of the Lion Air pilots on the same plane the day before) was to cut the power to the trim motors so the MCAS couldn’t interfere. It also meant they couldn’t trim the plane properly but it also meant the…

This is the beginning of the huge smokescreen under which he will resign for “health reasons”. And by “resign” I mean “chicken out so as not to be impeached”.