A “pin” is a generic term for an elongated and usually though not necessarily cylindrical object whose primary property is to have a nontrivial stiffness. Size irrelevant. May or may not have a head of some sort. If it is threaded it is probably a screw. If it has a funny shape it might be found at the end of a…

In 34 years I have managed to dent car thrice, and once got stuck on a pile of snow that was denser than I had anticipated.

Well, my point is that if you are looking for an electric Mini, how about one with 640 hp? :)

I would still say that the penalty for inconveniencing the locals and driving with sloppy precision being to wreck your car is a bit excessive. It’s not even illegal to drive through that area, but if you don’t do it careful enough according to some subjective standard, your fine shall be in the thousands of quids?

https://newatlas.com/the-640-bhp-mini-qed-plug-in-ev/6104/

It would be reasonable if the bollards were road-safe, meaning that they crumbled and destroyed, with minimal damage to the car.

On a side note, the supercharged 3800 did not have the flawed plastic intake thing. Since it had a twin-screw supercharger there instead.

I knew a guy whose Volvo 745 had ran for 400k miles. I asked him “how many engines have you changed?” because I was used to dad’s VW. “None, we only ever changed the springs and shocks once.”

Accidents usually don’t happen randomly - they are created by ignorance and bad decisions. There is no end of acts that are in your agency to perform in order to prevent them.

Almost as expensive as in Sweden.

?!?

By the way - this is what critical resonance looks like:

Ayep! I see no downsides whatsoever! For me, over here...

On my way home I pass a small railroad crossing where I have found that if I pass it at 50+ km/h then I just gently flies over it.

It is a common thing that bikes that look good in photos look weird in reality, and vice versa.

The article says 175-195 lb which is actually a bit lighter than a typical dirtbike.

Jebsu X those are ugly.

Droll, but it is quite common to see someone driving with a kid standing on the footplate before them there.

“What’s the point in being a belted jujutsuka if you never go barroom brawling?”

The best sounding engine I ever owned was the V7 in my Camaro when I had tightened one exhaust rocker too hard.