It won’t happen for two simple reasons. Lightweight materials like carbon fiber, titanium and high strength aluminium are all very expensive to scale volume on. It’s always going to be cheaper to add horsepower to make a fast car than remove weight. The second reason is the stupid, blind, sheep like preference of…

Would agree if Brazil weren’t for some reason considered favorites. They’re an ugly team that still relies on tactical fouling and flopping to get ahead. Their best (allegedly) player is injury prone and one of the biggest floppers in the game. They don’t have the talent or depth of the better European squads and…

Volvo looks poised to be the new Subaru as the preferred car manufacturer of the hipster crowd. I see many new ones in my neighborhood and they’re all great looking and seemingly well designed. I have no doubt they’re going to sell loads of these things, especially in Europe.

I realize that this is completely contrary to what I was saying this time last year but this is a great decision for Red Bull and a massive embarrassment for Mclaren. Honda have been enormously better this year freed of McLaren’s unrealistic packaging requirements. They’ve had slightly better reliability than the…

There is no regular 4.oTT. The engine is only on AMG models with the exception of a low tune, non plaqued version for the S550 and G550 (I think its the 550).

The biggest problem with autopilot is it is not an autonomous system, let alone self driving as the Tesla messiah would have you believe. Its a fancy name for active cruise control with lane keeping assist that many manufacturers sell under different names. We’re many, many decades away from full autonomy. The purpose…

Alonso and breaking curses don’t seem to belong in the same sentence. His very presence in a car makes its engine blow up and his every career move over the last decade has been impeccably badly timed. The No 8 Toyota is doomed.

Belgium because like Spain in 2010, all that talent will eventually figure out a way. England definitely have the talent on offense but don’t have the defense and imo the keeper to do as well. Portugal could play the traditional Italian role of opportunistic overachievers but Ronaldo’s probably a little too run down…

These guys are idiots. They should have started the truck up and gotten on the gas. She’d have popped right out. /s

What a car! I got to drive it for ~30 mins around barber motorsports park during a Porsche driving school event and its pretty much the best car I’ve ever driven. The amount of confidence it inspires to just push it harder and harder is insane. You really feel like a (semi) professional driver out there because…

I’m torn on how to respond to this take. On one hand I agree - full size (and beyond) pickups are way too large to be reasonable vehicles for most people. There needs to be some sort of government regulation on size restricting the size (total footprint) of any vehicle you’re able to buy without a commercial class…

Really hard to do better than the is-f here. Well done new guy.

Well obviously this has nothing at all to do with the fact that margins on the base car will be horrific and that Elon really needs to manufacture some improvement in the financial metrics in Q3/4 to keep the company afloat /s. If wall street was able to get a clean look at true margins on the model 3, the entire…

A good way to split the difference is to take half a multivitamin every day. That’s unlikely to be too much when added to a regular, fairly balanced diet but still enough to be a hedge against a deficiency or the odd junk food and binge day.

Never has this been more appropriate

So called “autonomous systems” are pretty much the stupidest waste of time, money and resources I’ve seen an entire industry ever commit to. Its like everybody decided to throw away tens of billions on utopian vaporware that’s decades away at best and have just realized that all that’s feasible at the moment is the…

Yeah. All he has to do here is to hook up the steering wheel with his neck using some cables.... ah wait. That might not work if he hit anything. Nvm.

Not at all crazy. Pretty much everybody born in Europe before the late 90s likely learned to drive manual. My first experience of an automatic was when I moved to the states for college in 2002. For at least the first hour, I kept stomping on the brakes while accelerating because my left foot muscle memory kept…

Its actually pretty common - a lot of the older, smaller private jets don’t even have enclosed toilets. They’re just curtains that drop around a seat that flips up to a toilet underneath it. Many curtains don’t even enclose the whole seat. Its generally understood that one avoids dropping a deuce unless absolutely…

He’s the greatest I’ve ever seen (I grew up watching Jordan) in my book and has been since coming back from 3-1 down to beat the 73 win Warriors in the finals. People point to rings but Bill Russell had 11 of them and he never gets into these discussions. Lebron’s body of individual achievement is greater and its not…