I am extremely disappointed to find that the "hacking at things with a machete" tag doesn't have more entries.

He's a big, big hole to fill

Troll level: "Oh cock, the trollometer is pegged!"

Can't agree with this more, I wish I could give all the stars. Top Gear was my gateway drug. I stumbled on some clips on youtube, that film where Clarkson rolls a Robin a dozen times comes to mind, and it all kind of snowballed from there. Within a few months I was binge watching old episodes, and by the time I was…

pilot spots for its Airbus fleet

And yet despite all this, they still don't have an entry for Reliant. Is it really more likely that some dude driving a 19whothefuckknows Carpenter will get an E-Z Pass than me in my Scimitar?

He aimed. Did he fire? Was the producer within range at the time? Did the punch land or was it aborted mid flight? SO MANY QUESTIONS!!

LONE STARR: All right, King, you just made a deal.

What, no Generalissimo?

He should be honored to be in the company of powerglide greatness. A turbu mustang in Australia ran 5.95s at 260 mph with one of those things. #twospeedmasterrace

hmmmm good eye. Idk, it could be simulating gears like Subaru's cvt but I don't get the point of that.

I'm sure it operates in a similar way to a torqu converter, but I think the car has control (hence clutch) over when it engages, it can can be adjusted based on when power is needed and how much, or totally decoupled to just charge the batteries. I'm sure you're right, this was probably the only thing that could take…

Awesome. Talk about tight packaging. I love this thing already.

Yeah that's what I figured. I'm sure the engine is doing very little other than charge the batteries until pretty high speeds, unless really fast acceleration from 0 is demanded in which case it's probably kept at highish RPM and the clutch is feathered, in combination with the electric motors at full power.

Yeah, I think it will probably almost behave like a CVT.

Yeah that's what I was thinking. I mean 700 electric hp is 'plenty' (read: since when is 700 not a shocking amount horsepowers?) to make it feel fast around town, and in a hard launch for that 20 second 0 to 250 record they can slip the clutch up to like 100mph (probably like 4 seconds, haha), feathering it until…

Wait, so no gearbox means it's a single ratio all the way from 0 to 248?

Swing wing and lifting body is always an awesome combination. However, while you give good reasoning as to why the decision was made, it's still weird to see a modern "next-gen" combat aircraft like this with smooth edges, rounded corners and that protruding nose.

It must be, a boosted engine needs a lot more fuel, and more overhead to extra fuel. If you lean out a boosted engine things explode.