There was a time when you had to match your throttle to the revs carefully, or the bike would bog. Just choke asthmatically.

To be honest, I had a sportsbike with an early FI system many years ago, and I found it to be somewhat crude insofar that the throttle response at low load was kind of jerky. Like it was divided into increments where most were reserved for the top-end, leaving the sub-4000 rpm action more or less on/off. I didn’t…

Are you sure about that? I’d slap one of these under the hood ASAP and just rejoice.

A peg leg will also work much better than my real ones in 50 years or so, and it is an awesomely simple artifact.

Am I alone in genuinely hating carburetors?

I’ve been telling people that I keep it for my daughter and will fix it until when she gets her license. Which will be in 2030, I suppose.

I never cared about cars until I was 33. I was an enthusiastic motorcyclist. Fetishist, even.

At first I felt outrage at how some people can throw fortunes on indulging the most trivial things, while most of humanity lives in a dystopic fight for survival.

That “1.3 Megawatt” is low-key funny. I guess 0.0013 gigawatt was too dumb.

The weight of the bee car may be 2001 pounds, but the mass isn’t.

Yeah. The infrastructure is already there - alternator and start engine - the mild hybrid type is just a bit beefed up (mainly through 48V) and have more intelligence.

Don’t be so sure. An EV can sound any way you want it to.

I’m sort of impressed that they will make a Lysholm (?) engine top out at 7500 rpm. Superchargers don’t usually appreciate wild cam timings, I’ve been told. 

I expect coming EVs to be made of superconductive graphene and have tiny black holes suspended in superstrings, driven by AI’s (acceleration limited to 15g and top speed Mach 20 for safety reasons), just in order to beat the other guys around Nürburgring.

Again, racing comes to save the future for us.

Because the other properties of those cars obviously matter more to the buyers than the fuel consumption.

“Do you want to pay less for the same? Yes/No?”

“the first recorded recipe for apple pie was written in 1381 in England, and called for figs, raisins, pears, and saffron in addition to apples”

The time when I was about to chauffeur two friends to their wedding, a low-key thing at the town hall so my ‘94 Buick (which is unique and conspicuous enough in Sweden) was carriage of the day.

Not my car, but when my dad got a Ford with the newfangled ABS brakes back in 1988, my 18 year old self had to test if the advertising - claiming that you could now both brake hard and do evasive maneuvers at the same time - was correct.