Thanks, Mike! It’s nice to see a rational Kotaku adult with a family respond to this in a rational adult manner. I’m married. I have kids. I don’t want a neighbor renting the home next to me, having an endless stream of young kids coming in and out at all hours, being loud, being obnoxious, flying drones, and just…

When you own a house you will completely understand why.

I recently bumped into a brand new 2017 Mercedes SUV with my 2005 Element in an extremely tight parking lot. He was backing out and I didn’t pay close enough attention when I backed out.

Having fun every weekend in your 20s is way better than doing it in your 40s.

The number of jobs we are talking about is trivial in an economy when monthly job reports include 150-200,000 new jobs.

Honestly though, this is how I feel the more I think about it. I was the guy driving the Lamborghini in the video, so I was leading the tour. And I was the first person to talk to the couple after the accident. While he did do something stupid, he made a mistake. And the way he handled it afterwards was exactly what…

Glad to hear of your good experience!

I still think its *worth it* and I haven’t sold mine yet, so maybe I’ll be in your shoes!

Step one: acquire Mercedes SL65 AMG

I’m thinking of a 308. I’m an idiot, let’s move on.

ummm... these things did a sub-5 second 0-60 sprint and cut the quarter in the 12's. Get off the glue.

A friend of mine bought a 360 and convinced me to buy one too.

Here’s what the take aways is:

your right. You will never enjoy owning a supercar unless you are rich enough that the cost doesn’t make you notice. Thats pretty much true of any car. Even a corvette or a miata. If you can’t afford to maintain/repair it, you…

It was fast in its day, and it’s still more beautiful than every car you can buy for the same money today. It also sounds better than almost anything you can buy today for any price. I’d rather be in a F355 with a Capristo exhaust than something much faster that sounds just average-good.

Yep. Any jackass with a powerpoint can get up on a stage with a headset microphone and brag about how their car is going to do x, y, and z. Actually producing cars that work and creating a functioning system to sell and repair them is an entirely more difficult problem, and given that this company has been nothing but…

Oh god. So many things to go break on that car: pop-up LIDAR, touchscreen door “handle”, active aero, facial recognition, SO MANY INDIVIDUAL LED BULBS...

Okay, I’m a native Chinese speaker. I watched the video and had to go back multiple times to check the subtitles with the actual spoken Chinese. While some of the subtitles is wonky (the employees keep saying “LeShi” while the subtitles would say “LeEco” and some of the sentences are translated in a literal fashion,…

No, it happens more often then you think.

To be fair (and might make an interesting motor related article), most if not all light standards are designed to be sheared just like the video showed, lowing the chances of fatalities when hit.

This is one of the centrifugal superchargers that I built in the same era. This one was for a Continental engine (small, probably fractional horsepower unit, likely an old washing machine engine). I had grafted the engine into an old 80 cc Yamaha dirt bike frame for use as a minibike. The engine would pull the bike…

I am a bit hesitant to post this... but I suppose confession is good for the soul. In my mis-spent youth, on a quest to get more power from the 5 HP Tecumseh on my go-kart, I built my own rotary valve head. My pathetic engineering skills were matched only by my kindergarten level machinist skills, and the results…

The reason has nothing to do with fuel or my latent desire to pollute your driveways — it has to do with oil. When your car has been sitting out overnight, all the lubricating oil that's coating all of the crucial, moving bits of the car has settled down to the bottom of the oil pan. When the temperatures are really…