Shine on...

Yes, it belongs in a museum, but even museum cars should be driven.

Regularly.

Patrick is right here.  The answer is almost always a Miata.

Well, no one is allowed on deck during missle operations. Also, the system is designed against an explosion in the launch tube. Its also designed to redirect the rocket exhause (and thus any fireball caused by an explosion,) *up*.

So other than some minor repairs and a paint job, not much damage done.

Remember, this is…

I’m surprised the 4C hasn’t been cancelled completely. It’s been not selling in droves.

I spoke with the sales manager at my local Fiat/Alpha dealership a few months back when I was looking at a 124 Spider (the Miata won.) He said they were selling an average of 4 4C’s per month, NATIONWIDE. This dealership (a small…

A trip to Griggs Racing and a fat wad of cash will insure even the most hardened anti-Lincolk nutjob will think its cool. Being Fox-based, all the go-fast goodies developed for Fox Mustangs will work with these cars too.

So get ready for an SLA front suspension, torque arm, Watts link, and big-assed PowerStop brakes.

Douchebags are driving Teslas?

I literally could not care less.

Is anyone surprised that a bunch of guys who got their jobs by gerrymandering is now trying to gerrymander economies?

Harley should give the US a big middle finger and relocate everything offshore. At the same time, re-invent the company’s image to better appeal to hipsters, who represent a target demographic that aren’t dropping dead.

Harley Davidson bicycles and scooters, my friends.  Think of a Vespa with a V-twin...

For some reason, the fact that it has regen braking makes me very happy.

Come to think of it, Regen braking may not take that much extra hardware. I wonder if it could be done entirely in software.

I really need to learn more about regen braking in modern electric motors.

A couple of things come to mind.

I doubt the car has regen. It’d add extra weight and for 12 miles, regenerating the charge may not have been enough of an advantage to justify it.

The car almost certainly has electric steering and possibly brakes (how do you get brake boost on an electrict car any way?). I doubt you’d…

Since VW couldn’t cheat in an unlimited class, they entered 3 cheater cars in other classes, just so they could give the trolls something they could point to and grunt.

Now everyone’s happy. :)

If you can’t make the race, you can still get a taste of the insanity by visiting the Penrose Heritage Museum, where they have a wing dedicated to the hillclimb, with lots of former winners display.

When I was last there, they had what was left of Jeremy Foley’s car and helmet on display.

Good God, those are ugly. They’re as bad as DTM cars.

The solution is to charge more for diplomatic plates and put that money into a fund to pay the parking violations. If/when the fund goes dry, the registration fee doubles.

This fee would be charged for each and every diplomatic vehicle registered and must be renewed every year.

VBehicles without plated would be towed,…

Cultist or not, its good to have all the relevant facts, rather than glossing over them in an attempt to make Tesla look incompetent.

Paintball guns, because you’ll run out of eggs pretty quickly.

I think the automotive industry has it backwards. We don’t need autonomous cars (yet.) What we need are intelligent systems to detect when we are driving badly or dangerously and then alert us to the asshattery we are engaging in:

Race control and flagging is a serious, dangerous business.

To make matters worse, F1 doesn’t have its own track marshals. They rely on the local track for that, and the track determines who mans the flag stations.

For COTA, that usually means experianced SCCA marshals, usually all with the same training. But there’s…

Regarding the current gear indicator...

I’m fairly certain the display is driven by comparing the engine RPM againset the wheel RPM (from an ABS sensor,) or speed (from the speedometer sensor.) After a gear shoft it takes a second or two to sample the sendors to do the calculation.

If you’re handy with OBD-II PIDs, you…