Really we only need 1 reason to not buy an Oculus :

For some reason, someone responded to something I posted here a long time ago. And in checking it out, I found your response. IIRC, the problem with that M18 breech failure was that the powder cartridge was a custom, non-OEM, cartridge where the propellant mix was home made. In essence, as the mix was put together,…

Have you ever seen the booze section in Costco? The same effect is amped up on the roads. 

Viruses doing Gods Work.

Ya know, you have the travel bug, right? The military family background, etc. etc. Hope you find someday a s/o who likes it just as much as you do. A good traveling companion is enormously hard to find. Note : one who is a good navigator and can drive a stick at the same time is tough as well. But it makes the road…

David Tracy, that was great reading. Nice to see that part of the world and car adventuring through that. I wonder if the Bulgarian checkpoints are limited to the highways? It’s too bad you didn’t have a chance to do some countryside driving. Looking forward to Kapadoyka stories!

Oh yeah. Those roads. When I went it was during summer before the monsoons. So really bumpy without the crazy mud. 

Seen any glaciers? I can see that you saw a lot of pavement....

Perhaps an electric fan would be a better option. It has the capacity to reduce the mechanical drag on the engine; seems though a simple fan blade swap should not introduce that much extra load to cause early overheating. Maybe a bad fan clutch? Or are you even running a fan clutch? Maybe that might be a thing to try.
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Anyone remember when he lost that Bugatti for a sec at the bottom of T9 at Laguna Seca way back when when the Monterey Historics were most excellent? That was when the T1-T4 complex were really fast. IIRC, the back end of it had a giant dent in it. Good times...

Saturn. A bastard company forged by a bunch of bastards from GM who wholly went along with treating Saturn as the literal bastard child. Lots of great ideas and processes punctured by the GM hierarchy as being too far-reaching; twenty years later and they’re still trying to emulate Saturn.

Sounds like Newark alright.

My bugaboo about this kind of tech is that we also need to consider inertia. Making a turn must be absolute hell without some kind of inertial stabilizer/compensator.

For a hot sec, I thought you were talking about a onboard portable potty....

Looks great. Now I need to start saving. Hopefully, it’s not overpriced, the dealer markup will probably be nuts.

Fun fact! I just approved all the pending just because Kinja. Why not?

It’d be fun to comment further and respond to other comments. But, due to Kinjas epic failure in developing and managing commenting, it’s virtually pointless. The main reason to do it here is simply for testing purposes to examine why previous comments no longer appear in form despite responses to those comments…

I had something similar happen to me at Keyes Honda recently. I traded in a van and bought a new one. Gave them my old paperwork, title swap, California state stuff, etc. etc. Swapped out the insurance, etc. A few weeks later, I get a notification from LA County stating that I’ve been given a ticket for parking…

It would be interesting to see a reliable car with nothing but module interfaces so all you want to do is to plug in OTC modules to gain new functionality. Crank windows, A/C, minimally aided suspension and steering. But give it extra styling time and money rather than make it just another typical GM boring box. Or…

So, ex-CEO makes CYA statement.