A true airport shuttle has at least 3 pairs of doors like the old station wagon conversions.  A Cayenne stretch would pique my interest,  this is meh. 

On the subject of a 350 big block,  according to the Jim's Automotive Machine Shop channel the Pontiac 350 is a downsized 400/455 family engine.  The other small big blocks that come to mind are the Chevy 366 truck engine which is a Mark IV (396, 427, 454 family) and various Ford truck engines. The Ford 330 and 352 FE…

Too bad I canceled Netflix after the last rate increase. No matter how many “baby come back” emails they send, I'll get by with PBS and umpteen old Oregon Field Guide episodes.  

Camping World is vastly overrepresented in the complaints on RV web sites, so I would never buy from them. I have rented trailers, which is actually a good way to do it because storage, repair etc. is somebody else’s problem, and there are situations where a van or trailer is the right answer. I’m looking at minimum…

This is why autonomous taxis are a pipe dream. City streets are the toughest environment for any kind of self driving and why some rival manufacturers don’t even enable the automation on city streets.

It’s interesting how much of a Tesla is software defined and can be fixed by an OTA update. It’s still lipstick on a pig because the wank panzer so fatally flawed as a design that it is irredeemable. 

Tesla's touchscreen gearshift is an ergonomic abomination.  The haptic shifters that don't move or return to center are almost as bad. The good old fashioned PRNDL that mechanically moves between notches, with a positive lock on park and reverse is an excellent example of a regulation written in blood.  

It says something about our broken ecology that there are so few native pollinators in most areas the we have to truck in itinerant bee colonies like insect braceros.

Yes, my thought is that we need a signaling system on selected routes which would make it like a driverless train. A controlled environment removes a lot of complexity. Autonomy on city streets is a goal not worth pursuing  

This the Dead Internet theory in action. Just as we say remember when MTV payed music? We soon say "remember when Google produced useful results?

The long September 

All you need is money. There are plenty of E Type specialists and enough parts to build one from scratch. For maximum weird, swap the original for a low compression Scorpion tank engine with a turbo, and give it huge wheels and fiberglass flares like a 70s mod sports car. 

Too much potentially expensive stuff to go wrong and it's beat, ND. 

Yeah, a well matched and tuned 4bbl with the right manifold makes plenty of power with less complexity. Unless you're running a 500 CI pro stock motor that actually need two Holly Dominators.

“It belongs in a museum" because it's effectively undriveable and is a lesson in hype, failure and graft

As a side note the last Vanden Plas to differ mechanically was the 4 liter R, which was a blinged out Austin A60 Farina with a Rolls-Royce B40 engine. 

Nothing would say jump the shark than a Lamborghini badged K car..

The 340 six pack was a production option back in the day. It obviously used a smaller carburetor than the 440 but with the right heads and valves a small block flows a lot of air. Look at the difference between the Ford Boss 302 and a same year 302 2 bbl.

“apres moi, la deluge”

Building an autonomous car is hard, Tesla's corner cutting makes it harder. The system failing to recognize and respond to a railroad crossing is bad the driver trusting the machine too long is worse.