#1: I see the oil industry still have some good FUD up their sleeves.

I can recommend a serving of cold-worked hyperduplex stainless steel. How does yield strength 1900 MPa yet still 25% elongation sound?

There is a cultural difference between USA and Europe, that I see in the comments here.

Warning: that particular engine in those particular cars had a problem with the crank ventilation that slushed oil into foam and ruined things eventually.

At 25000 miles, the Honda dealer looked at my CBR929 valvetrain, went “meh” and put the lid back on.

There is a quite simple formula to estimate the top speed of a vehicle.

Are the golden asscheeks an option or do they come standard?

“Ask me anything you want to know about women. I am an expert, I have been married seven times!”

Meanwhile, I am impotently raging and shaking my fist at the fact that EU made Sweden accept cars with no rear lights on in the daytime.

It does not take genius to figure that mimicking a waterdrop would improve drag, and the general internal layout is very different. I would not label this as plagiarism. I bet every car designer alive at the time drew streamliners of some sort in their sketchbooks, then laid it aside as being unrealistic.

“I shall push onto humanity a scourge that cause them to suffer and die, because I want to get rich” is quite equal to “I want to commit genocide to plunder the corpses”.

I shall make a song with the chorus “SIRI CALL NINE ONE ONE!” and make it a radio smash hit.

I for one love the lack of center console. I like to spread my legs without having the bony parts by the knees knocking against boundaries that have no obvious reason to exist. Some cars are downright claustrophobic and makes you feel like you are plopped into a sitting bath.

Most software I have ever used did not really need periodic upgrading. Most of the time, a new version usually means they redecorated the interface slightly, fixed one bug, left a dozen several-year-old bugs still in, and the file format is no longer compatible with the old so all your peers will also have to upgrade…

I think this is the sentiment of most sentient car customers. I don’t think there is a person within one sigma of the IQ standard distribution who sees the desirability of getting nickled-and-dimed to death by physical appliances.

I chuckled.

Back in 1990-1991 I worked at a factory that produced camper fridges that used the ingenious Platen Munther cooling machine. A closed circuit of pipe with ammonia that moves heat between zones, driven by heat. It literally ran off a small flame from gas, a candle, an electric resistor or whatever.

I take it as proof that I am right: older cars are better than new.