Faster than a one:1 isn't a great comparison depending on the type of boat. A one:1 is ostensibly designed to operate under extreme conditions for hundreds of miles without needing major service, while a nitro boat would need service every few passes. Even offshore powerboats that can run a few hundred miles have a…

No executive would ever tank their own stock unless they had someone else paying them off, which I'd imagine is hard to do for someone worth $35 billion. Rather, these executives are accused of unethically inflating their stock price so that their options are more valuable, and then the resulting sell-off to bring the…

For some perspective on that Aventador, when you have $35.5 billion dollars a $500,000 purchase is the equivalent of someone with $100,000 net worth buying a Mcdouble. It represented less than 0.01% of his peak net wealth.

Gravity pulls you straight down the hill. This guy is getting pulled at roughly a 30 degree angle to his direction of travel and is constantly accelerating no matter his angle of attack. That's significantly harder than doing a point and shoot run down a hill. I routinely hit 65 mph down the little east coast hills I…

The runway being so close is a complicating element but 78 mph on a snowboard isn't totally insane. He's riding goofy and the rope is pulling to his left so he's constantly steering to his right to counter this. If he let go without changing his stance he'd veer off to his right (and possibly take a nasty tumble, I…

According to the original article Tesla alluded that the Ethernet hacking was "industrial espionage". As if anyone seriously trying to reverse engineer the Model S' systems wouldn't disable or shield the 3g connection immediately.

I'm just spitballing here, but perhaps it is because you can't hyperlink to a car's infotainment system?

There are two (maybe 3, I think one is duplicate) currently offered online for sale by Houston-area VW dealers. Why would they pay Autotrader for the listing if they already had a buyer?

If you die your carbon footprint will wither and die too.

You could buy a G63 AMG, aka the SUV with the world's largest identity crisis.

Seriously, those people end up in a panamera turbo or supercharged range rover, not a $25k Ford.

The F-22 is great, except for the debilitating lung problems it can leave its pilots with. The F-22 doesn't deliver enough breathing air pressure to the pilot to allow the lungs to function properly which results in hypoxia, and collapsed alveoli, which causes the famed F-22 Cough. Meanwhile the SR-71 could experience…

Or maybe, the word vagina has been genericized to mean a woman's external genitals. That'd just be crazy though.

The problem is every Georgia cop thinks they will become the next Kyle Dinkheller every time they make a traffic stop. I've dealt with several Georgia cops in the past and I have to say that I would never, ever, give a Georgia cop reason to stop me even if that meant holding up traffic.

Honestly, if you're stopped for 2 full seconds after the light turns green then you're holding up traffic. So many traffic problems would be avoided if people were prepared when it was their turn to go. I see it every day, if each person waits 2 seconds instead of 1 to move when the light turns green (or when the…

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Record numbers just means that someone, somewhere, did enough drugs to think that buying another Olds diesel was a good idea. He was the first person in history to publicly admit to wanting to do so, so a new record was set that day.

1-2.5 Litre engines are are probably the most common in England, but Americans appear to scoff at anything less than 3.

The plastic front air dam is removable in 10 minutes on trucks I've seen. Anyone who actually needs extra clearance can just take it off and possibly even sell it. My friend's GT500 has the same setup and he bought a replacement off ebay from some guy who wrecked his.

As long as they're not being dishonest with the customer reactions I don't see what the problem is. Most people have absolutely no idea about the performance of their mid-size coupe and they are right to be impressed about how good it is when they grew up on the terribly bulletproof GM platforms of the '90s and early…