> "were beginning to swell". That's a new one on us.

The mechanicals are in fact expensive. I have had larger beater german cars before and while there's a great deal of things you can ignore in the passenger compartment (irregular dashboard reboots when it's humid not being one of them). There are quite a few things under the hood and chassis that you cannot. If that…

well at this point there are a rather large number of inexpensive e36 coupes with shabby interiors and I6's that will also do the business.

The "bently meteor" is the one I linked to, built on a phantom II chassis and using the meteor v12.

The great part of small jets is when you take off you're out of gas, and when you land you're really out of gas.

A merlin weighs over a ton inclusive of fluids and is 7 feet 4 inches long. putting it in a car is deeply impractical...

> and let Honda absorb the existing tech.

cooking off a hundred of them at once is about a 100 million dollars (in 1980) or maybe a quarter billion today.

The Charge rate is largely dictated by battery design. The chademo connector however is ridiculously huge and terrible and the tesla connector is not.

If you own a tesla roadster you've already self-identified as not being that concerned with the cost. CPO at this point is under $90k so clearly demand is on the ebb.

Barbary pirates...

986s are certainly now getting accessible 987s maybe not so much.

cargo doesn't get much more rigid than a giant I-beam.

not sure what platform is responsible for url fail

Realistically there are a lot of better ways to slouch into porsche ownership

mercedes benz is an investor in telsa and some of the switches you see there and the turn signal stalk are sourced from the mercedes parts bin.

It doesn't really matter what you call it, it's still a dc9.

my thoughts exactly.

head-on collisions with fixed barriers are simulations of like size vehicles. tests like the iihs side impact are performed using a simulator the is supposed to stand in for a specific ( in this case 3300lb suv sized) object. So when a honda civic performs better in a side impact then the gmc envoy is that despite…

I have a 330ci it's only 2,979cc.