My first thought when I hear Dodge Dart, though I’m biased because that’s mine. I’m not old enough to have been around when they were, but I’ve always liked them and thought they were underappreciated in the Mopar market.  The B and E bodies tend to get most of the limelight.

I’d say GM isn’t necessarily fully to blame though.  As the article points out, some of those people selling the keys are 3rd party, and likely just a lot of dealers.  They aren’t necessarily all that different than owners that don’t want to go in for a recall.  You can recall parts all you want as an OEM, but if the…

Yeah, it’s an interesting city.  It has these pockets of cool stuff together, but then it’s kind of a wasteland between them.  It’s gotten better with the streetcar they just put in recently that will take you between three of the main areas (Union Station area, Power and Light, and River Market), but that’s the only…

All told, F1 prize money, sponsorship and cash thrown in by Daimler AG hit £338.4 million in 2018. The team, meanwhile, only spent £311.4 million. How economical of them!

Vehicle sales projections have never quite made sense to me. I think everyone would agree that cars today are much better than cars of yesterday. They are more efficient, safer, and last longer just to name a few things. If a company makes things that last longer and longer, then are surprised that they sales start…

I think part of the problem is that there are just too many options too.  If a city outlawed all but one or two “mobility” services, I bet they would work just fine.  But having two or three different ride share companies along with a traditional taxi service, plus public transit, plus scooters, plus bikes, etc, just…

Sounds like a nice setup.  I guess I’m not as well versed in most cities as well because I just kinda avoid them to begin with.  There is a lot to do in a smaller area, which is nice, but I just don’t care to deal with all the people to do it or want to live there permanently.

I can see that having driven through/around DC once.  KC is the biggest city near me, not that the town I live in is tiny, but KC has a lot more unique stuff to offer, so I usually end up there at least once a week for something.  I realize we aren’t dense by any means and “KC” is really a relative term as I kinda…

I think one of the problems with trains is more that geographically the US is just way bigger than all the other places that have good train systems. High speed rail would be awesome, I agree. I would much prefer to hop on a train to go to the airport and back. But what you can do in under an hour in Japan would still…

competed under the pseudonym ‘Miss Wyndham’.

I guess I was getting more at the temperature management part of the equation. I can go to the next city over and bring home frozen/refrigerated stuff because I can haul a cooler. I get shopping local and generally prefer to do so, my wife just grew up going to Costco and they do have some pretty tasty stuff for some…

I suppose, though that makes the cost of living potentially even worse if you can’t do anything yourself.  I found back when I used to go out to lunch every day for work that just taking lunch was saving me probably $200-250 a month, and that was even with cheap fast food.  Buying something every day on the way home…

Interesting, I guess I’ve never really looked into it since I’m a suburbanite and just don’t care for super dense cities to begin with.  It’s fun to visit my friend in SF and we take public transit/walk nearly everywhere out there, so I can see how it works well, but I just don’t like being in that congested of an…

This has always been the problem with large cities that I can’t figure out. Everyone clamors that we need to get more dense to be more efficient and get rid of personal transportation, which in and of itself makes sense in theory, but if you ever want to leave your immediate city, what are you supposed to do?

Cool, always just seemed like a novel concept and very sci-fi to have “portable” reactors, though I get why they are usually more stationary units due to all the shielding and whatnot.

What’s the smallest useful reactor that has ever been built?  I know there have been some “school project” stuff that’s theoretically a nuclear reaction at a very small scale, but what’s the smallest one that’s been used for actual energy on a regular basis?  I think I remember hearing that KU had a small one in the…

Mine isn’t exactly creative, but I was in on it in the earlier days when people were doing it and most swap components were just starting to hit the market. I put a 5.7 Hemi in my 67 Dart. I know I don’t have the fab equipment and skills to make stuff like motor mounts, at least not ones I would trust in daily use,…

Wow, that is some crazy power from the braking system.  If the car takes 1500 hp to get to 250 in that time, slowing it down from that is even more, though you are limited by tires either way, so it’s more like it can sustain that kind of power dissipation for a good period of time.

Wow, who would have thought that they would make an Uber/Lyft game?

“I want drivers working hard behind the wheel.”