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Experience with mraps suggests you can be trapped for several hours after a rollover accident before you can be cut out.

Needs a bottle of sherry solera (which heat insensitive) two glasses and a corkscrew. most useful roadside assistance kit ever.

> A series of neodymium batteries are hidden inside the rear wheel

Well, as an e36/46 owner, e36 interior plastics and trim are a bit shoddy and don’t wear well. An e36 m3 gt probably doesn’t get driven very much or parked in sun. but I doubt it’s aged that gracefully.

leaving it out would make it different from the manual

cheap left / right hand drive entry-level shitbox already did center-only. I don’t recall it being terrible, but it’s not great either.

> and their Monoball kit swap the rubber bushings for ball joints and aluminum housings that allow for far more precision.

BMW called...

> a record of 83G over .04 seconds was set in the 1970s

were they actually functional they would be ducts. like these:

> The other option is infinite gears,

The first use of a thermostat involving a feedback control loop is circa 1620, a car has several, that setup has none, short of the meatbag operating it deciding it’s to cold or blowy.

My observation when this was new was that it was likely to eclipse their profit for the previous decade if not more. That’s like 100 billion dollars. Frankly if the penalties were not in fact large then everyone would look at flagrant violations of the law as a cost of doing business. willfull cheating on this scale

among other things... also noise.

Nah, all the boxes are purchased by companies entertaining customers and employees and then deducted as a marketing expense.

it’s only got one :p which is 9.73:1 or therebouts

yeah that accounts for the somewhat lower than p90d 3.2 second 0-60 but it’s still 700+ foot pounds of torque once the tires hook up

really when they start shipping people will have to start evaluating their numbers...