Or just good old fashioned target fixation. It's like when a kid learning to drive in an empty parking lot hits the only light pole.

I dd one for 15 years, in California. No different than a motorcycle convenience wise.

As someone who has shoved a 350/350 motor into a Lotus style chassis, 250/260 isn’t far off the sweet spot, although you don’t really need a bunch of low RPM torque. Assuming it was done right, you’d have a hard time building this for the same money. You’re going to change drivetrains like shoes anyway, but a solid…

Has to be said, a Rotary makes a very good range-extender power source. If it’s fixed to a very narrow rev-range for optimal output it can be reasonably fuel-efficient while not having to provide efficiency at other engine speed.
This is why turbine engines are often used for electricity generation - you can make them…

This is probably the most factually-correct joke-answer I’ve read in quite some time.

Worldwide homogenization would be great, as long as we aren’t caving to the *lowest* common denominator.

Oh my...you’re about to see outright theft to a magnitude that would make even the best despots blush. Stopping SS payments will merely be a drop in the bucket when it comes to stealing gov’t assets and reassigning the assets to the top 0.01%.

How can you cut Social Security? It’s a system we’ve all paid into. It’s solvent. It’s not a f******g “entitlement”.

To cut the program is theft, pure and simple.

Doesn’t there have to be more to this? If the trucks were on the shoulder, and not within the road width, a vehicle driving correctly in its lane should not have made contact, speeding or not.

Crazy answer: A triple diesel engine pickup truck with a 6 inch lift installed at the factory. I mean, the EPA’s going to get a gut punch, too, so might as well make a FerdRamChev F-Teenthousand Denali with a 6.7 Power Stroke up front, a 6.6 Duramax in the middle, and a 6.7 Cummins bringing up the rear.

If I can’t get a Suzuki Jimny, what even was the point of destroying the American experiment?

Sold for $16k on BaT in September. It’s worth $4k more two months later? ND.

Non-Jalop answer: I would love to see a unification of safety codes between the EU, Japan, Korea and the US. This way, if Toyota makes too many Kei vehicles for their market, they can export some to America cheaply and sell them here. It would allow for enthusiasts to special order stuff like Alpines or the like and…

How about the 55 mpg “Chevrolet” (Suzuki) Sprint I had in 1985? I drove it off the dealer lot for $5500 and drove it for 220,000 trouble-free miles before giving it to a family member.

Sure. It looks pretty well sorted and you couldn’t build it for that.

If Edd China built it? Yes. Otherwise, hard no. I’m not putting my life in some knucklehead’s garage project, even if it could be kind of cool in theory. I also doubt this would be street legal in my neck of the woods, although that’s partly my own situation. According to the interwebs, Oregon has no required vehicle…

Probably safer than a T bucket, lots of questions. A worried NP  from me.

I went with NP. You couldn't build it for $20k, but the market for it is also very limited. Would I drive it? In a heartbeat! Would I pay $20k for it? If I had it laying around, maybe.

I have the $50 Leaf in my driveway. It could have been $29 but I put the $500 down into the payment because... why not. So - your math definitely checks out. I had a ‘09 Cayenne GTS getting 13mpg on premium, and I also had a lot of surplus energy coming from my roof solar. So I sold the Cayenne, leased the Leaf,…

It’s a scam. the car is probably sold already. I had a similar situation with a Ioniq 5 Limited. Advertised lease for $99/mo, $0 down, 36 months. I called the dealer (was about 1 hour away) and kept asking if the car was on the lot and available and I kept getting the runaround. eventually they admitted the car was…