Hyperloop is a crazy idea, but would be fast and an order of magnitude cheaper than Mag-Lev. Conventional high-speed rail is just too slow. 200 MPH? Pathetic. Automated road transport could do 120 MPH easily. At that point the speed disparity is too small to justify all the added infrastructure.

"and people are willing to take the tax hike,"

"What's happened to this country?"

It would work in the areas indicated on the map?

40 delicious valves of fury :D

Me too buddy, me too :'-(

They did it because they are still trying to salvage the Scion brand. The idea was to inject some legitimate pedigree into Scion, but instead they ended up putting a boat-anchor of a badge on the 86 while people still don't give a fuck about their stupid "youth brand".

Will never happen. Not with the current platform anyway. Toyota has a strangle-hold on what Subaru does with the platform and they would never allow a significantly higher-performance variant than their own Scion version.

Insanity.

I think Saint's Row has the greatest history of celebrity appearances of any gaming franchise. I went into SR4 thinking: "How the hell are they gonna to top Burt Reynolds as mayor of Steelport from SR3?"

But that would be even worse because you'd have to play as a girl! Do you have any idea how terrible that is? If you are a male gamer and play with a female avatar then your penis will shrivel up and fall off! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Haha, diesel Dick sounds like my kind of guy.

Pretty sure you couldn't convince anyone to sit in those rear seats anyway. Look at those velocity stacks. See the metal rail down the middle? See the little black-and-orange doo-dads protruding from it and pointing into the trumpets? Those are fuel injectors. As in, they are openly spraying fuel right there in the…

My old man had an F-250 of this vintage. You're exactly right about the ride. It rode like shit unless there was at least 700 pounds in the bed. His was $500, so probably a bit nicer, but you could still see through the floor in places.

Shit yea man, no ignition system, mechanical fuel pump, who needs a battery? If it had a manual transmission to allow for bump-starts I'm pretty sure you could run one of those cars with no battery installed whatsoever. I long credited my Merc's lack of engine-critical electrical subsystems towards its ability to…

Super cool man. I think doing automotive work inside a finished living space is one of the most weirdly satisfying and masculine things a person can do. Reminds me of the 2.2 turbo engine I run in my car right now. I built it in what was my makeshift bedroom at the time:

I owned this car for three years:

The name "Satan's Toothpicks" is actually a bit of an old military term in reference to a particularly nasty type of ammunition called flechette rounds:

+1 on anything less than 4.0 liters. The way I look at it, when a V8 starts to overlap with production V6 engines in displacement it is a "small" V8. Four liters is a "big" 6 cylinder and you rarely see them bigger (discounting diesels). Same way as you go down. 2.5 liters is small for a V6, but big for a 4-pot and so…

They are the best for face-smooshing. An important criteria if you ask me.