That is not a design that will stand the test of time. The 1st gen Z4 has aged much better than this ever will.

It’s mainly a lack of demand, not a lack of ability. The whole reason these things got mothballed was because satellite surveillance was considered as good or better (not always of course). As much as these things cost, building better wasn’t going to happen “just because”. Certainly from a research perspective, work…

Later spec. calls for hand-made artisanal truffle oil.

Mine looks like this:

Right on. Anyone who thinks VCs let the startup bros take home $200K/year are smoking something illegal. Never have, never will.

Transmissions of that era are not in any way, “smart”, so no detection of “being in two gears” or any such. On the the shift mechanism could be disconnected on the way to the transmission. That would be nice but probably also understood and rejected. Barring that the shift selector inside the transmission might have…

Someone must build this. 8's are cheap.

I think you are confused. Less than 2% of U.S. oil comes from Saudi Arabia. They import more than 4x that from Canada.

I test drove one hoping that it would offer the fun of a manual to me and the practicality of an automatic so my wife could drive my car. Sadly it offered neither. It was “herky-jerky” at low speeds to the point where an unskilled driver could never be comfortable and it never offered the engagement of a manual. It…

Considering it was never driven if that doesn’t top $130,000 (DJIA from 2004 to now is up about 2.5x) , which I doubt it will, it was a horrible investment. And that isn’t even counting storage and registration costs. Why would anyone do that?

That’s not always true. Even normal repairs (like a clutch replacement) can easily exceed the market value of an old car. If there are less than $6500 of repairs needed on that car I’d be very surprised.

The Z4M Coupe is the last best M3.

And actual spaceships are vastly more likely to look like run-down warehouses than the fantasy we see in those pictures.

Not so much. Reasonably precise cylinder filling is accomplished through the use of a positive displacement compressor (super-charger).

a. There is complexity, but it has no heads and no valve train so that is offset.

How about the little discussed fact that what comes out the other end isn’t you but a copy of you? This naturally raises some questions. Such as does the right held by the old you confer to the new you? Did the teleporter commit murder of the old you? What happens if the original doesn’t get destroyed and there are…

“The only downside? They’ll set you back $8,500.” And another $4,000 for every brake job.

I had my e46 driver’s window regulator fail on me. Brittle plastic is BMWs single biggest cause of failure. The window just fell into the door. Fortunately I had the extended warranty so I started activating the other three windows up and down and withing 5 minutes they all failed and fell into their doors. All four…

Stopping distance is function of speed not how many cars are on the road. If you follow 2 secs behind the car in front of you at anything over 30, cars will be slipping in front of you to get ahead, endlessly. Of course if you are in stop and go traffic, you aren’t getting anywhere, anyway. :-)

Luxuriously.