With apologies to those who love it, if I have managed one parenting ‘win’, it’s that my 12yo (almost) daughter has zero interest in Disney World. We did bring her to Universal for Harry Potter when she was 8ish and it was pretty cool but the following year was a semi-guided tour of the UK (London, Edinburgh, Dublin)…

If the manufacturers went to a direct-to-consumer model, their costs would go up to build/support delivery and service centers.  They would presumably end up somewhere between invoice and MSRP.

The good news is that the efficacy (as measured by “not dying”) is so good that you don’t really depend on those idiots. If it weren’t for the people who can’t get the vaccine for whatever reason, I’d be full-on “screw them”.

Oh, they have laws. For example, they’re very efficient at figuring out that you accidentally drove your rental car onto roads that are only open during part of the day.  Twice. :)

The $15k brings some kind of 3 day super-mega-access hospitality stuff AND the hot lap.  It’s in the 2nd link Elizabeth provided.

My daughter recently observed that, even ignoring the two 3s and an X on our street, it’s nearly impossible to go anywhere in our little suburb in central NJ w/o seeing at least one Tesla and normally more. It has really picked up since the Y came out.

OK, I’m too lazy to look it up but I recall that at some point Audi came up with a transaxle update that moved the halfshafts a few inches forward. Is that what let the full V8/V10 fit?

I roughly doubled the HP of my 1.8 (is38, DP, intake, unitronic) and it probably won’t blow up.  But my rear windows leak.  I’ve never owned a car that leaked water into the cabin, nevermind a NEW one.

The office I used to go to has a generator very much like that. IIRC, it’s a V16 with four turbochargers. They service it twice a year (don’t forget your ladder!), which is how I got a chance to peak in on it. One is a basic test, the other involves big heating elements to load it down. I never saw it but the tech…

My wife’s A1 Cab was behaving like that. It was driving me nuts. It would always start up fine, then start running like crap. We were out one day when it hit me. It was freaking out when it went closed loop. “Pull over”. I disconnected the O2 sensor and it ran perfectly. Wife was amazed.

My anecdotal observation over the years about major companies mirrors yours. My own company seems to hire a large number of recent grad technical women (CS, EE, applied math, etc). I’ve never asked (because it’s none of my business) but I’ve wondered if they choose to make less money with us because they don’t want to…

I have the same setup.   Game changer.   Working under a car while actually standing up is so great.

Once the leaves come in, I can’t be seen so I just pee off the driveway into the woods. :)

I’ve told my wife “I’ll put ‘She had the right of way’ on your tombstone”, while tapping an imaginary chisel.

Wouldn’t be surprised if they created program that uses the camera to ascertain curb distance, compares it against turn radius and crashes into a parked car.

2,000 hours, in fact, right?  And they’re usually still in good shape at that point.

Wow. A few weeks ago, a friend woke up to about 75 feet of fencing destroyed in front of his house, deep grooves in the grass up to a tree, and a stream of coolant on the roadway leading away. When my daughter saw the mess, she wondered if the guy had come back a couple more times to get extra fence.

You know, looking at it a 2nd time, David should have included the calculation to get rev/mi.  Pi would make it look better. :)

Hopefully.  USAA covered my brother’s hydrolocked E46 M3 years back.

Wife. One 6th grader.