I’ll see you and raise:  https://www.stltoday.com/business/local/feds-napleton-car-dealer-charged-hidden-fees-hiked-rates-for-blacks/article_30768efd-0581-53f5-a0b0-088e5d1b0f3b.html

Well executed, if not highly creative, assemblage of readily available parts.  Unfortunately, it’s not in style, wouldn’t be much fun to drive, and lacks anything that says “safety”.  It’s a lot of cash for something that will stay parked 99% of the time.  ND.

My spidey sense always goes off when I see a Craigslist ad in one state showing the vehicle halfway (or all the way) across the country. This (and all the others) screams scam more than avoiding emissions and registration issues.

I’m torn. It appears to be an attainable/doable project, for someone with time and patience, but for that money, one can also pick up a used Miata and just be out driving and enjoying the road, instead of deciphering a wiring diagram.

Much like the Super Bowl halftime show, this isn’t quite my taste, but it is/was well executed.  NP

Sunlight/UV rays is/are the culprit.  Chemistry has advanced.

Automatic transmissions - you young ‘uns haven’t lived until you’ve lived with the two-speed GM Powerglide.  I could hit 50 mph in first in my first car, a Corvair.

The downside to key fobs and “increased security” is the related rise in armed carjackings. If the only way to steal a car is to take the owner and their fob, some criminals will do exactly that.

One big potential problem I see is not in leisurely daily travel but in storing it for multiple weeks, at a time, in some fenced storage yard (as many working, suburban owners end up doing). Will these facilities have to start offering charging options? Or, will solar trickle chargers end up being a mandatory, needed…

Even if they can get charging down to 15-20 minutes, that’s still 4-5 times longer than it takes to fill a fuel tank. If they expect the same throughput, the same number of happy customers, they’ll need at least triple the number of chargers, compared to the current number of fuel pumps. Both the amount of real estate…

Will they have the option of a camera watching the catalytic converter, as well?

Good Times, around Denver.  Lion’s Choice, around St Louis.  White Castle, around the Midwest.

I fail to see any reason for the massive, one-piece windshields.  They’re going to cost a fortune to replace, when, not if, they break.

Meanwhile, in St Louis, we have officers dying while playing Russian Roulette, while on duty and undercover officers being beaten up by uniformed officers, due to “mistaken identity” . . .

With 60% of US power generation still coming from burning fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, petroleum), 20% coming from nuclear plants, and just 20% coming from renewable sources, EVs are more about virtue signaling and taking advantage of government incentives (tax rebates and carpool lane access) than it is about “mov…

Meanwhile, in rural Missouri, a new road course is actually being built - https://www.facebook.com/OzarksInternationalRaceway/

Having seen a presentation on the technical/operational challenges, both above and below the public concourses, the design responses are even more amazing.  The architects, HOK, had little margin for error - https://www.hok.com/projects/view/laguardia-airport-new-terminalb/

Why not just run the race the following day?  That seems to work fine for NASCAR.

The list is endless . . . and we shouldn’t be giving them any ideas. Your airbags only work if your subscription is up to date. Your seatbelts will only buckle with a current subscription. Certain desirable gear ratios (in your transmission) get blocked off. Your heated seats won’t. Power seats won’t move. You can…

“Style” and “Classy” have evolved since this was created. Zoom and Skype have reduced the need for rolling, in-vehicle meetings. Vans and SUVs have evolved, with luxury interiors, more headroom and less obviously-ostentatious, “target-me” exteriors. This would be both harder to drive, in urban traffic, and more of a…