Since I knew a few SAAB designers I got some insider information. Allegedly, GM held SAAB in perpetual red numbers artificially by internally billing them ridiculous amounts for platform components.

I have only been riding in one once. It was nice, though thirsty for a diesel. Does not change the fact that torque is a pointless number.

Yep. You are totally right in every regard.

I love it when people disrespect their luxury cars. Like transport building material in the back seat of a Mercedes S600, or rally driving Bentleys.

I just wanna drive my -94 Buick Park Avenue Ultra right into eternity.

Calculate the distribution of all sold motors. All within the 68.2% center band are “normal”. The 13.6% that are one standard deviation greater are “large”, the 2.1% in the second sigma are “huge” and the top 0.1% in the third sigma are “WTFLOL”. All the three latter categories are statistically significantly “big”.

Motorbikes: instead of “super motard” we call it “super retard”. Because they are usually loud and do wheelies everywhere and such.

Looks fine, but in this golden era of engineering, where are the absurdists?

Theoretically, with electric self-driving cars, there is no practical argument against free speed. At least not with sustainable electricity.

When I was a kid, my parents used to take us on summer travels from Sweden to Greece and back again across Europe.

That’s easy: driving like a sociopath. They do that a lot in the town I live, compared to others. Local culture.

As a structural engineer I approve of the triangulations.

To be contrarian:

As an offroad motorbike rider, all these technical points on how to make four wheels carve ditches through dirt really slowly look like a mindboggling exercise in arduous futility.

Came here to gawk at the torque babble, was not disappoint.

Lubrication aside - can anyone tell me why the ideal operating temperature of an engine is approximately at the boiling of water?

Yes. No. Okay. Never!

Sorry, Götterdämmerung is german. Koenigsegg is Swedish.

Personally, I think all companies should name their technologies and projects a bit more poetically.

Clown shoe? Larf!