“Porsche is the only company who adds lightness”

I still don’t follow your logic.

Meanwhile, in my V8 at local events I’m setting top street tire times left and right. And I’m definitely faster in my GT than I was in my Ecoboost, though there could be a number of factors there.

What are you talking about? The V6 Mustangs definitely do not smoke the V8s at autocross.

The turbo camaro has a much better power to weight ratio than the Miata anyways.

When comparing as they come from from the factory though these modern performance cars would absolutely wipe the floor with all those “icons” around any track.

She’s not taking away her gender, she’s just balancing the statement by saying there’s no verification. If the one defense of the COTD posts is “she’s a woman”, yamahog is saying “as far as we know”.

I don’t know where you got that last part from. Maybe reflecting on your own comment shaming people for being excessive by buying something with power.

I would rather be able to go very fast when I want to than never be able to go fast at all. Power is great.

Right after the first grasshopper test I went to a presentation by the then flight operations director at SpaceX. I took him to task about the returning boosters, because my engineer mind could not accept that they weren’t giving up massive amounts of payload capacity to carry enough fuel to do that.

It’s certainly possible, but I don’t think it’s efficient. Russia also has the luxury of a massive unpopulated landmass to put their stuff down on, whereas in the US we’d either have to use an existing airport or a dry lake bed. When taken in the full context of what SpaceX is doing with their reusability, landing the…

It’s fine, it just confuses me that so many people do it. Probably the same people that complain when they don’t get the rated gas mileage

Those accord drivers sure seem to like to use all of their power, though. I feel like at every light I get absolutely dusted by the various midsize four pot sedans and tiny econoboxes that line up next to me. So many drivers seem to view the gas pedal as an on/off switch, it’s crazy.

Who cares?

Flying them down? Like with wings?

I’m certain earlier engineers thought this was possible. The big picture is actually quite simple. We had gimbal control of rockets, trajectory is relatively basic physics, empty fuel tanks don’t weigh a crazy amount, etc.

I picked up the car with some curb rashed wheels on it already, and literally parking at the house after the drive home from the dealership I curbed one of the wheels again. Luckily they’d already been damaged so no big deal. They were going to be replaced anyways.

It scared the bejeezus out of me. I fessed up to it during the lunch that I pulled into the parking lot for, and one of my co-workers that was a regular at the place said it had happened to him and others countless times because the entrance was just poorly designed.

My mom popped a tire trying to parallel park her Nissan Quest when I was just a wee lad. I don’t think I’ve seen her attempt parallel parking since.

I’m all for sacrificial plastic. My girlfriend has scraped all the paint off some spots of her front bumper pulling in too far, if there was a plastic “lip” that took that damage it’d be far less noticeable.