Modern high-bypass turbofans don’t really direct thrust forward - and clamshells only direct it “slightly” forward. It is almost entirely 90ish degrees to the axis of the engine. Which effectively creates a “wall of air” that acts much like a parachute. It’s also only really effective at high speeds on high-bypass…

OSHA says drink plenty of water and take appropriate breaks. LOTS of industrial areas are extremely hot. Nobody is air-conditioning a steel mill.

The difference is that everything you touch in the Dodge will probably feel like cheap crap relative to the price of the thing. No Hyundai has ever impressed me much in that respect either, including the Genesis. I assume the Lucid actually has quality materials, but I can’t say I have ever been in one.

Wouldn’t putting groceries in the back of a C8 result in your ice cream becoming soup? That is certainly the case in every mid-engined car I have driven.

I doubt you meet my standards.

And you seem like an idiot with an axe to grind. <shrug> You can’t tell a damned thing looking at a few seconds of video as to how safe this vehicle is or isn’t. All you can really see is that the passenger cabin did not deform - that is a GOOD thing. The only way to know is to look at the instrumentation results from…

Completely agree on both counts! And good luck getting that blanket over a car jammed in a tiny parking garage parking space.

Then his family should not get a dime. He knew what he was getting into.

That shark was jumped a LONG time ago. Now it is just a race to see who can ladle the most tinsel on a car.

If you love it enough to put in the work, have at it. At least the off-white seats in my M235i were plastic, not leather, and the seats in my Saab Sportcombi were so processed the leather might as well have been plastic. Still a pain to keep clean. And I like my cars clean.

But the vast majority of them DID not appreciate like that. Only certain VERY special ones that were in very rare configurations will beat an index fund over the long term. And even those are mostly cars that were driven and enjoyed, they are just special enough that a couple of guys who couldn’t afford them when they…

But the vast majority of them DID not appreciate like that. Only certain VERY special ones that were in very rare configurations will beat an index fund over the long term. And even those are mostly cars that were driven and enjoyed, they are just special enough that a couple of guys who couldn’t afford them when they…

That truck must have really been mooooving.

The first car is absolutely lovely. Something old and Italian? I love a good rich brown. I don’t normally like white gauge faces, but they really work here.

Dear God, those are tacky. Prima Facia evidence that money can’t buy good taste.

We really don’t need new cars this cheap today, because they will inevitably be complete and utter crap as this one is. The cheapest new cars have ALWAYS sucked. The cars you think were cheap back in the day that didn’t suck, weren’t actually all that cheap. Inflation is a thing. At the bottom of the market, just a…

The EVO was also terrible. But it was fast enough that certain people didn’t care.

Like OceanGate has anything like $50M in assets. At this point, they might not have $500.

Yup - other than the cars I did Euro Delivery on, that was about the average. I got my GTI the same way, and it had 12. I literally watched them back it off the truck.

Indeed - I picked up my 328! at BMW Welt, literally across the street from the factory where it was made in Munich, and it had more than a single mile on it.