Knew the trucks’ owner. SUPER obsessive about taking care of his vehicles and huge GM fan.

Memory metal is Nitinol, a 60's era nickel-titanium alloy. Mu metals are interesting as well. Transparent aluminum exists, ALON by Surmet is aluminum oxinitride. Aerogel and aerometals that float and are super strong already exist.

High rpm, light throttle, followed by a quick throttle blip results in reliable, on-demand massive backfires, complete with fireballs quite visible in daylight, and are a daily affair from my RX-8. Keeps everyone at bay, and doubles as highly effective Prius repellent.

That looks hideous, and even worse, a bmw engine. Probably open diff as well. Supposedly bmw variant will be available in stick, whereas Toyota variant will not from what ive read. Ass backwards. Expensive. Bloated with needless crap. Hideous. I’d rather have a Solstice/Sky with a blower. Or an S2000. Or a Miata.

Have an RX-8. 138k miles, original engine. 2004 Touring 6 speed. LOVE it. Also 300ZX TT 5 speed, heavily modified. Horrified of it.

I consider top gear, new top gear, new new top gear, and the grand tour to all basically be a camaraderie show, with scripted characters and hijinks that happens to feature automobiles, trips, and challenges with a dash of bassline comparisons thrown in. Excellent cinematography, funny and fun to watch, but not just…

Beluga dildo.

One WEIRD TRICK to fixing your coolant woes (do this daily)

Someday, we will likely be having discussions and sensitivity training regarding objectifying cars and machines in general, thanks to AI.

Corporate April fools day pranks are so damn transparent, contrite, and downright droll, I make a habit of skipping the news and mostly avoiding the internet. It’s THAT sad.

Um, 1st gen and 2nd gen N/A RX-7's tend to last QUITE a bit longer than their FI 2nd/3rd brethren, and moreso than the RX-8's. 1st gens were tons of fun because they are so light.

Tavarish, you know it’s calling out to you...

Salinity and temperature also affect acoustic waves in water, as temperature and density affect them in air. Air acts like a fluid for any acoustic waves. Essentially, sound is just a shockwave dynamic of any gas, fluid, liquid, or solid, and while it can be accurately predicted with known variables, without precise…

I have owned 6 first gens, 1 2nd gen, and an RX-8. DD’d every one.

I used thick twisted steel baling wire from a farm supply joint as “chains” to get home from western Indiana to eastern pa years ago, caught by a snowstorm, in a sight-unseen ebay $100 special 1983 RX-7 GS. took an hour to fashion them, but they worked great compared to the balding 10 yr old cooper cobra summer…

2004 here, daily driver. Aside from dismal gas mileage, a bad cat, and clogged heater core, adding a quart of oil every 1k miles (normal), and premix 2 stroke oil in my gas, ive only had to replace the entire ignition system (maintenance, plugs coils and wires), fix the keyless entry system, replace the radiator,…

Every vehicle has design caveats; everyone who has worked through and past such abhorrent oversights has felt this way, remitted, replaced, or installed their own solution to such problems.

Statement: As a resident of a coal producing state, and employed in the advertising/tv/film industry, that happens to legally reside in a county that does not require ‘smog’ testing, but merely visual check of required emissions equipment, I am appalled this show is still being aired from a legal and ethical…

Exclamation: Stupid meatbags; should have asked for one Brazilian Dollars (Dr Evil theme and pinky)

Statement: What an egregious waste of capital. Stupid Ozzy meatbags.