It works like the old Churchill quote: “You can depend upon the Americans to do the right thing. But only after they have exhausted every other possibility.”

This is exactly up my alley, though I’m not buying any more bikes until I kick a couple more out of the garage. The V7s are very attractive to me but I always wanted a touch more displacement.

Bradley, I know the Herb doesn’t give hazard pay for psychic damage, but I will bet a tasty beverage that he actually said something more like “and uh [unintelligible] 100 200 percent because *grunt* Mexicans the women, y’know women love me an’ [looks around] John Deere! Great American company beautiful tractors…

I put more care into dumb social media jokes, and these guys have a friggin’ edit button and nobody scolding them about alt-text.

Was going to snark about “influencers” flaunting their travel but not using the Precheck lane, but realized that whatever their own circumstances, they’re performing for audiences that don’t get to travel much and definitely don’t have Precheck.

Motocompo!
(images are broken again dammit)

Manned Maneuvering Units for deorbit, ablative surfboards for reentry and parachutes for touchdown. Cowabunga!

That’s the kind of awesome your extra $1m (or whatever) buys you.

I know I‘ll never see one, and every single one will be sold to war criminals and labor thieves, but the engineering behind the car is cool, and I want it to exist.

Only good thing about Jackass is that they used “Corona” by The Minutemen as a theme song, which probably paid for Mike Watt’s fun musical career after we lost D. Boon.

It’s a shame they can’t part out the motors, batteries and inverters for homebuilders.

In a sense, you could argue the Miata is just a poor person’s Utopia Roadster.

Team Oregon offers an Advanced Rider Training class that’s in the ballpark of this, and they even used to teach the Akira Slide. Truly a mind-blowing experience for a regular street rider.

Look, it can handle the 80% of situations where nobody’s in danger, why quibble about the 20% of situations where the car might be wrecked and someone might be killed?

Guess he graduated past easy sex, arson and combinations thereof.

We need RAM Charger innards on a 3/4T or 1T chassis with 8' bed, for all the construction contractors, horse people, dirt-toy-haulers and exurban commuters who want a fancy truck that looks like $100k but need a Prius that can carry a full ton and pull another 4 tons a few times a year.

Best I can say is that I hope the CT takes away the “damnlibrul” stigma from EVs so we can get some more electric and series-hybrid pickups sold and on the road.

Interesting writeup and good angles on the static photos, I sure do wish you could’ve brought a safety buddy and gotten some action shots.   It seems like a great machine for ripping dramatic rooster-tail power slides.

Professional boat haulers must plan their routes. Boaters and experienced truck drivers know this, and you better be using an experienced driver for an expensive boat like that. Somebody screwed up.

Thanks, came here to say the same. One advantage is that the front wheel can use lighter spikes because it doesn’t have to transmit braking torque from the hub.