Maybe if all the battery engineers thought of a cheaper way to swap batteries out we won’t see this as much in the future. Because it’s sure to be the case when people get tired of their old, bad battery designs, they’ll resort to all sorts of ways to spectacularly end their cars existence.

Yup, agreed with everything he said. The fact that MB dropped the appeal and didn’t go to the Gala awards in any fashion kind of points out the fact that the rules have been poorly applied this year and repercussions are arbitrary.
Next year should be very interesting. The new cars and setups should be a bit of a…

Yup. There’s a case to be made for software devs to make games with lower performance hardware simply because that’s what will sell their games. As it is, my family looks to older games simply because that’s what will run on their rigs as $2000 video game cards aren’t looked on as legitimate sources of fun. In fact,…

They’re a bunch a idiots. They’re fine with running into a burning warehouse full of VOCs. But a mask or a vaccine, horrors, I might get sick.
JFC, get over yourself, fake firefighters, you’re not doing anyone any favors. And, btw, to that LAFD fire chief who lives in Texas and commutes to LA for work, go eff yourself…

Eh, I’ve seen worse. $11000 seems slightly high considering it needs a transmission swap and really deserves a 5/6 speed. The rear end body mods aren’t very nice looking, the front end looks ok though. $9500-10k seems more reasonable. The steering wheel is amusing. I’d probably leave it as is.

Who is running that place nowadays anyways? It’s been through a few handlers with all the political jazz up in SC county.

24 Hours of Daytona, 12 Hours of Sebring, and, of course, LeMans

Uhm. Perhaps you should review how the F1 Power Units work. 

See, what you really want to do is to build a diy version of the F1 power unit with old ICE engine up front and the MGUH, MGUK set toward the rear with the Energy store set all the way in the back. You could probably get a full 265 lbs of battery back there easy. That’d be a fun challenge to do!

Most unfortunate. Sad to hear. RIP. 

Um, who owns Volvo now?

Sure it is. The sublime life of American celebritydom just isn’t appreciated enough. There should be a broadcast/streaming show called ‘My Life Among Serial Rocket Fiends’ starring Grimes, Lauren Sanchez, and Mackenzie Scott. Pattern it a bit after RHOMars or something like that.

Don’t quit. Otherwise, Grimes will have nothing to sing about.

This is going to be a problem in the near future as long as the OEMs build chassis that don’t allow batteries to be swapped out easily and their supporters don’t advocate for easy battery exchange systems. 

Had to do that with my dads old Mopar wagon. That was an adventure considering that I only had a 18" Craftsman breaker. The tire jack handle (a Sears unit which I regret giving away now since it was the meatiest jack unit ever) was the only thing that saved the day. I now look at tire jacks based on the quality of the…

Red Mist of Champions :

Now that’s some barebones aviating! The PanAm people were pretty amazing in their day. Alas, there are few Juan Trippes nowadays. One thing’s for sure, he would’ve never put up with modern Boeings shenanigans.

Just a couple of things (some mentioned by GirchyGichy and others) :

It’s not like it was back in the ‘70s or ‘80s when we had Jean Jennings and Denise McCluggage around. Nowadays, there’s someone else to do all that stuff, especially since the OEMs like to make sure no one screws with their cars. 

That’s pretty damn good to get them to do that. I managed to get them to change tires and disc brake pads (which was a bit of a feat too).