I don’t know that this is even Baja levels of safety. This might be ~SAE solar car level

It looks to me like every tube is under-spec and not really properly supported. It’s like he just grafted the STI drivetrain onto a yard kart. He even took the time to bend stuff that absolutely didn’t even need to be bent. Jeebus knows how he’s actually reacting the suspension loads into that frame.

Even neglecting…

I’m not sure I understand where you’re getting your info. GM hasn’t released info or specs on the motor unit itself and the published electric assist top speed is what‘s in line with european regulations.

as for incompatibility with “standard” bike parts, I’m not sure that I see that either. Yeah, the crankset doesn’t…

that might be what people in the states are doing. the idea here is that people can use this as a commuter and safely keep up with traffic without breaking a sweat. european cities that already have established bike commuter populations are going to be way more receptive to that.

well, collecting the membership fees from other rich turds AND forcing the secret service and other government agencies to pay for food and lodging on his properties. 

it depends on the department. a lot of motor pools, even in upper mid-west states like michigan and wisconsin are switching to 4-season/All-weather tires so they only have one tire SKU to inventory. Goodyear launched a Police specific tire called the Eagle Enforcer recently that will handle snow and ice pretty well…

please keep these cars off the road until you’ve had a chance to actually go through the mechanical systems and make them reliable. unlike your family I don’t particularly care if you get injured or killed but chances are you’re going to hurt someone else sooner or later if you keep doing this.

the 22nd stage of Donkey Kong

you can argue that case for street driving but not for the track. going from 140 to 60 at the end of the straightaway will be too much energy for the electric motor to reclaim. you’re going to need the pads and rotors to function.

the Model S has a big issue with the heat generated while being driven all out. it’ll go…

to be honest, it looks like he got funneled into the wrong sport. It looks like he has pretty good quickness and hand eye coordination. He probably could have made a good soccer player.

Mazda and Honda made cars rust out pretty quick

that tie rod was probably $1500 after it caused a crash/that much body damage.

yeah, all you’re doing my washing a car when it’s covered in dried salt is reactivating it and forcing it deeper. as others have said your two best options for keeping a car nice in the rust belt are using oil or wax coatings proactively or driving a winter beater and keeping the nice car off the road.

$70k is good money but not great.

this is bad information. dried salt on a metal component doesn’t do much of anything. you need to have moisture present to get the electro-chemistry going that turns your sheetmetal into rust. by washing the car, particularly when the roads are still coated in salt, all you’re doing is reintroducing water to those…

far northern states use sand because it’s too cold for salt to melt ice. sand doesn’t provide a whole lot of grip but population density is lower so it’s less of an issue than it would be in say, detroit.

winter tires aren’t a replacement for road salt. you’ll end up with a ton of people crashing on the highway because of black ice.

minor quibble, there are a lot of broken older spells in the game for sure, but modern creatures are significantly better than the old stuff and sets are more balanced overall now. Wizards did some beta drafts as part of the grand prix scene a couple months ago. It was hilarious watching pros try to piece together a…

steel and aluminum tend to be isotropic materials. the loading direction doesn’t matter.

the twheel has NVH issues. it works great for very low speed applications like lawnmowers and skid-steers where you’re more concerned about puncture resistance and load carrying capacity than anything else. at reasonable driving speeds though you get a lot of vertical force variation which is bad for traction,…