If you only secure one side of the car to an anchor, the car is going to twist. Doesn’t matter if it’s a civic or a hellcat. 

Actually they mastered getting up from getting knocked over back in 2016. 

A knock caused by a lean condition will create multiple flame fronts and therefore burn the fuel at a higher rate, resulting in a more intense burn. That’s where melted slugs come from.

You would be wrong. Plenty of sketchy nations have the same or better hardware than what we have. And again, lets not forget we had actually sold a couple F-35s to Turkey before we removed them from the program. Luckily their planes had never left the US because they were part of the shared training pool.

Saudi gets…

Nearly all funding for hardware development comes from the US Government. There are proprietary technologies developed by defense contractors but the level of funding compared to govt funding is puny. The proceeds from such sales go to the manufacturer (with the US government as the middle man via the FMS system). 

Up until just recently Turkey was an F-35 customer. Saudi gets our best surface to air missiles. There are plenty that have more advanced F-16s than even the US uses. 

Yes, for us.

While they are closing the gap and may catch us in the next couple decades, US hardware is still superior to Chinese and Russian stuff. We don’t need to be selling potential future adversaries the good shit. 

When you’re wealthy a full time nanny is not a huge expense.

This would be like my employer paying me like a secretary vs an engineer because I occasionally shred papers.

I have a couple friends with electric conversions that kept a manual transmission. They basically just use it as a single speed gearbox and generally don’t shift them outside of putting them into drive or reverse. There is no point to shift unless you’re going for a top speed run.

There is a reason almost all the…

It would be better to remove the transmission entirely, you don’t need it and it’s likely the instant torque will fuck it up after extended use.

On point 1, I think the valvetrain is an important consideration in any conversation about this. Looking at things like this from a systems view is important. I do not disagree with you on the displacement argument.

On point 2, I have never seen an LS revving over 8K that didn’t require frequent valvetrain servicing.…

He was wearing thigh pads (and knee pads, though not as relevant) during that game.

Engineers don’t try to shoehorn technologies into less than ideal operating conditions. That’s what marketing doofuses do.

Can you put an flat plane into a pushrod engine? Yes. Is it the best application for the flat plane? No. That’s all an engineer needs to hear and good ones will fight back against efforts to make…

“Musk had a reputation as a manufacturing genius”

FUCKING HOW?? This man has never been in charge of a well oiled manufacturing operation...ever. 

That’s actually the goal. 

What does that have to do with anything? People bring their dogs on trips all the time.

Also, you can’t trust people with your animals. My dog has been mauled by another dog at a sitter and she always either gets sick or comes back with fleas from a kennel. So....nah. She comes with us most road trips and travels…

Not rusty or hopeless enough. The body panels are also too straight, and it’s cooler than anything he would ever consider owning.

Other Ford Mustang? Don’t you mean innocent bystander or telephone pole?

Well, that’s what the USA has been doing since the end of WWII, with very mixed results.