Based on my engineering experience, I think there is a 98% chance it went something like this:

I could see myself buying this and then replacing all the Lambo badges and script with some made up emblem and name, like a GTA car. I want to say GTA III’s Diablo knockoff was called the Infernus? It’s been a while since I played it. Turning this into a video game car could be a lot of fun at car shows. Fellow gamers…

You know those kit cars where you take a Fiero and turn it into Ferrari 308 knock off. Think of this as the reverse engineered version of that. A Ferrari with reliable running gear. NP

If you gave it to me, I’d make a mini Mad Max V8 Interceptor out of it.

You’d be surprised how agile an EV can be. Yes they’re heavy but not all heavy is the same. Their weight is not only low down, but also towards the middle so they have not only an exceptionally low center of gravity, but most also have a very low polar moment of inertia. Sure plenty of cars have 50/50 weight…

Perhaps this is just me, but once a vehicle gets in the 250-300mi ballpark, I’m looking more at recharge times than range itself.

As an EV owner, this is great.

“North Carolina’s own Republican governor”

A few years ago I decided that I really wanted a Land Rover LR4 XXV edition, which was a special edition model commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Discovery that they only brought 225 of to the US. A search yielded no results anywhere close to me, but I found one in Louisiana. A couple of flights and a long…

Oil companies get tax credits and deductions for nearly everything you can imagine. Need a few hundred thousand gallons of tertiary injectant to enhance oil recovery on a marginal well? That’s deductible. Why? Because when the price of oil is sufficiently high, the investment is worth it, but only if the extra costs…

Met my son’s new teachers as he goes into high school in the fall, and his English teacher is heavily tattooed, and I was pretty psyched about seeing that. I think it’s both progress, and also a sign of the reality what generation is taking over. A lot of talented, passionate, qualified people are going to have…

Send that to Musk so he can try that out with the next Cybertruck prototype.

No, it appears to be an emissions control issue. Likely the new seat material isn’t compatible with Depends anymore.

Of course it’s due to consumer behavior. The vastly overwhelming majority of people don’t *need* a different car, they simply *want* a different car. There are a few cases where a car gets totaled or is otherwise not economically fixable, but relatively speaking, those are edge cases. Most people buy new cars because…

I did go into multiple dealerships, basically what I did was work them a bit on price and then once dealer x made me a deal I went to y dealership and told them what x offered. Y makes me a better offer so I go to z, z makes a better offer so I go back to x....round and round. I actually had one sales manager blow up…

If you pay the dealer $4,000 for a used car service contract, $1,000 for rust proofing, and $500 for paint protection, it’s because you’re an idiot.

bought my 3 in 2013, brand new, and loved every moment behind the wheel right up until an old lady in oncoming traffic didn’t notice my headlights and hung a left right in front of me this past November. Bought a Tacoma, but one mod I had to make to it was swapping the shift knob out for the Mazda3 shift knob (had to…

Going sledding as a kid growing up in Iowa. Me and my Flexible Flyer—we loved the snow. Have on long underwear, could sled all day.

This thing looks like a BBQ grill on wheels

Jeeze, who in this world *can* we trust, if not a luxury car salesman!?