So if you look at international business news often you’d see this future painted in bold strokes. Modern batteries use a bunch of rare-earth metals to increase their performance. China in particular has a stranglehold on these markets since the US has basically shut down it’s own production chains. Batteries and all…

Depends on the company and the level of detail. Finding a nice hide without any defects can be a challenge, and then you're covering the entire interior in that shit, we're talking 3 or 4 hides for one car, maybe more. If they've got good quality suppliers they might be able to get more per hide but there's a good…

Still waiting on seeing the freevalve system in a commercially obtainable consumer car.  They should have it perfected by now, I feel like its been around for almost a decade now and CK was pushing it really hard...

Update: this article is practically unreadable, and a great example of a poorly researched topic the writer doesn’t understand completely. “So compression happens almost instantaneously”...pretty sure you meant ‘ignition’ but I'm not your editor huh? Painful what passes as paid blogging/journalism anymore.

“We have a ton of cold.”

Id like to point out that, even 25 years ago when I went through driver’s education, it was a complete fucking joke from start to finish. I learned more driving a 3/4ton truck helping my grandfather bale hay than I did in driver’s education and I was maybe 10.

Derp he would have been passing on the inside of the turn, where you’d be able to see far, far up the road into oncoming traffic.

Yea but 4wheel drive and all that

PUT YOUR DAMN PHONES AWAY WHILE YOU DRIVE PEOPLE!

This is true. Billionaire Schultz and his ‘radical democrats’ BS ignores the very real fact that our entire political conversation has moved to the right, as has the center. its been decades since a true Democrat has been president - I liked Clinton but he totally fucked our entire banking system because he was a…

Yet when people bitch about Midwest Republican senators in the pocket of the Koch brothers and Monsanto the rabble rises to a fevered pitch among Dems. living fossil Charles grassley from Iowa has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from ag industry slush funds since before I was born and it still pisses me off bc…

“ignorant shit”

As someone mentioned, there was no online presence because broadcast rights were sold in each region/country and those broadcasters were basically given complete control of the content, within the contracted rights, etc. So SPEED and FOX and NBC (etc) all could have theoretically offered online content going back 15+…

So you’re saying there was a time when he wasn’t a troll?
Evidence, please

BE has actual housing on his ranch in Brazil for the hundreds of victims donors that will keep him young well into the 22nd century. Because that’s what obscene wealth is all about.

You gotta be fucking kidding me, none of what I’ve read on this was sourced well and (once again) you get the feeling it’s outside actors talking shit to mess up some (secret) contract negotiations. Again. It’s almost as if BE hasn’t stepped too far away (he hasn’t) because this rumor is typical of how he operated.

Yeah one only really needs to look at the destroyed and missing guardrails in that video to understand the realities there. There’s a couple gaps where you sort of wonder - if someone went through, would they keep drifting? 

To be fair, the Supras are only collectable now because a buttload of them were modded and trashed by the FNF crowd about a decade ago and there are far fewer on the roads now in any condition. The clown shoes, OTOH, mostly made it without feeling the touch of a pep-boys muffler tip or A-pillar wart cluster.

While the…

I look at these cars as I might discreetly look at younger women; unattainable, more expensive to maintain than I can afford, and destined to be mine only in the very private corners of my mind.

...just another day in Portland.
Seriously, I think I saw this yesterday outside the coffee shop when someone tried parallel parking. You wouldn’t think someone trying to park could close a 4-lane road in both directions, at least until you come here. Coffee tastes better with a little bit of schadenfreude, and creamer.
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