Ah, I’m well familiar with that work.  My dad has a 93 Stealth that we’ve done an awful lot to keep on the road.

Wow, I only wish I had that much time to design stuff in my job, lol.  I do industrial truck design and I think we’re lucky if we get more than a year to design anything.

Cruise control helps, but I agree, it’s not the most fun thing to do.  I can get 26 mpg with my Viper, but that’s basically just sitting at 75 mph for a whole tank of gas.

I wouldn’t say cost has much to do with practicality. Practicality to me is general usability.  I could use a Challenger for the large majority of vehicular needs without any issue.  And the gas mileage isn’t that bad. I bet it will get 20 on the highway just fine if you don’t drive it like a lunatic.  Can you get…

Yeah, I guess it’s really true of all new cars to me.  My dad has a new one and when you stand next to it the beltline is practically at your chest.  I’m used to parking my 04 Viper in my garage and have plenty of room to open the door and walk around it.  When I park my wife’s 09 Malibu in the garage when we go on a…

I’m going for the opposite on my car.  I’m aiming for the highest mileage Viper out there in the long run.  Currently have just shy of 125k on my 04.  I’ve heard of a gen 1 with over 250k, but just from browsing forums.  I know I’ve seen a gen 3 for sale with 140k on cars.com or something.  For all the miles it still…

I would hope to not have debris in my pan, but if I never see them when changing the oil I would never know I had them. That’s more what I was getting at.

The Dodge Challenger is as old as it is impractical

Have you been near one?  They aren’t small, despite what it might look like.

I would think this wouldn’t necessarily get any debris that could be on the bottom of the pan as effectively though.  Not that you want or expect to find that in your engine, but if you have shavings in the pan it’s best to know, and gravity flowing down feels like it would be more reliable to flush them out.

True, I think the GT does have it for better aero, at least when you’re talking VMax stuff.  The Viper isn’t too bad, but that Ballista one is the best I’ve seen that I know of.  240 in the standing mile isn’t terrible, but it takes tons more power for just a little more speed when you get to those numbers.  I don’t…

This just look like your basic NFC setup.  Doesn’t seem all that complex by any means.  I’ve been using mine to pay at stores for a while now without issue.  I agree a pair of keys still ultimately makes the most sense, but this isn’t some huge technological step.

Seems to me that putting something with high voltage in a conductive liquid wouldn’t be my first choice.  Who is going to go near that tank and risk getting shocked?

The Viper engines can put that kind of power down pretty easy too, though they have a lot more displacement to work with. Here’s 1800 hp at least. https://americanracingtechnology.wordpress.com/ballista-1800/

I read the story somewhere else that I thought said they were still the ones that did it, which makes even less sense.

Didn’t think about that, but it’s a good point.

Right, but they are doing all the aero development work and such on the car as well.  That is still unique to Haas and not something the whole field has access to.

the Ferrari F1 team’s estimated annual budget was $470 million compared to a top team budget of $15 million in IndyCar

It’s not entirely different from sword tips, though a complete miss versus just a minimal damage hit is admittedly a slightly different animal.

There’s a general, overarching sense of wear and neglect all over the train that’s just not present to the same degree on airplanes.