From inside these massive ships look good, from outside I agree, they look like man made atrocities.  Nothing beautiful or elegant about the massive mega cruise ships.

Fun fact about this trail. Its weak sauce up until the last mile and a half. When I did it, the rangers said most people drive to this point, park and walk and we say people doing that. The last mile and a half was pretty fun.

The market for large caliber coastal defense weapons is about to explode.

Air travel in general is just a necessary evil at this point. Getting through an airport (in the US) is a test of patience for security, then you get ripped off for basic food. A small cup of grapes going through an airport over the weekend was $9.99... The airport is loud, people making queues across walkways, people…

Nah, both eyes in the center is best, because makes it look like Cookie Monster

I’m no Certified Business Genius, but I’ve always thought that a good way to improve one’s stock price is to develop, produce, and then sell desirable products at a price somewhere north of the production costs.

They won’t tell you this, but if you plug a CT into 480V it will not only charge in half the time, but go twice as fast afterward. Such a hack.

By my figuring, $17,500 is about 115 nights at a Hampton Inn, after which you’d still have your wife, the respect of your neighbors, and your sanity. ND.

It doesn’t matter what they’ve done, it’s the appearance, and they’re hoping to twist arms and get corporate backpedaling like they did with Tractor Supply and John Deere.

A lot of the slack-jaw folks have never set foot inside any air-conditioned office, and have no idea what  American corporate culture is like.

The old hollow roof was a dead simple work around. A gap at the front and back to allow for air flow to cool the panel as the car moved. Now if they used heat pipes to connect that top panel to the cabin and use it as a heat management system, that would be a cool sales gimmick in a lot of the us.  Especially if it…

Or as subaru/toyota found with the BRZ/whatever, if you spec hard eco friendly tires on a RWD sportscar, you get sooooo much more drama- apparently when spec’d with the tires off a prius, the BRZ is all skids and drifts all the time.

The Tesla “handling” claim is maneuverability, not handling.

15 years ago in cycling, the only tires you would be caught dead with on a road bike were 23mm, pumped up to 120+PSI. This was just how it was done. And people would argue ad nauseam that the 23s were faster and handled better and anyway they have to be better because that’s what the pros ride and the pros only ride…

I was going to stick with the FSD letters and call it Full Self Destruction, but unfortunately while I have no problem with the self destruction element, it’s what and whom else they destroy that I have the problem with.

Former Jalop writer Jason Torchinsky had a great take on where we are with driver assistance. Which is that the current level of autonomy is far more dangerous than driving one’s self.

It’s ridiculous that a system that requires a drivers full attention can easily let a driver completely ignore the operation of the vehicle. I see far too many Tesla drivers on the highway just staring down at their phones. The driver is certainly at fault, but so is Tesla for designing and implementing a system that…

The Avanti also made liberal use of the parts bin AND used fiberglass body panels. If something mechanical broke you could pull a spare from another studebaker or a monte carlo or a caprice that was produced in huge volume. The investment in making replacement body panels wouldn’t be huge for a small parts house. The…

That was an edge, yes.

Lack of Fisker’s cloud software would be annoying, but mainly it’s for the phone-app (which lets you see where your car is, and send addresses to the car’s nav). The built-in 4G connection is likewise useful for the maps updates and streaming music. But, we already know we can stream music from a Wi-Fi connection to…