I wonder how much power it takes to run all those tires blankets at once.  Almost seems like you’d need a mobile power station with the whole operation, unless they are just really low power heaters and that’s why they take so long.

I’m seeing a new Postal truck in those vans.  Someone needs to resurrect a bunch of these and pitch them to USPS.

Chrysler has a long history of some pretty impressive engineering and was often time the first automaker to sell a certain feature. Lean heavy on that and maybe pivot them to the EV side of things, perhaps with some extra luxury thrown in. They could potentially still keep the same platforms to Dodge, but try to…

Oh yeah, that was always the challenge and the greatest thing when you could find a stereo that would play mp3 natively.  Went from having something like 10 songs on a CD to 100.

That’s cool that they let you pick an expansion to level through, but I wonder if it “locks” you to that expansion or if you can jump around.  While some were certainly not as impressive or fun as others, spending 10 levels or so in each is a nice way to see multiple sights and hear multiple stories.  They would need…

Funny, since I share your perspective far more than those of “my age group”.

Eh, fair enough.  I have heard it various ways.  Some places call Millennials 1990+.  I haven’t heard it going all the way back to the start of the 80s before, but I suppose it’s an inexact term anyway.  I certainly don’t associate myself with them just by my opinions and general worldview, but I guess it’s really…

Yeah, that was my first thought too.  If you want to keep the “handmade” part, which is really what makes them special, mass production doesn’t really go hand in hand with that.  They are very impressive looking though.  Feels like more of an Etsy thing to me.  Kickstarter in my mind is more the platform for someone…

I think I count as Gen X (32 at the moment), but for me burned CDs were mostly a thing, but with the caveat of being in a family where my dad was doing IT for most of my life, so we had the tech more available than some.  The bigger issue was finding CD players that would work with burned CDs as it would matter how…

This was interesting.  My parents had almost the exact same car several years ago.  It was a 99 in the same pewter color and even had the same rims.  Kinda makes you wonder if someone modded it, but I think it already had that many miles on it the 7 or so years ago that they sold it, so guessing not.

Everyone seems to be under the perception that electric motors are a flat line of torque and horsepower, but that’s really not the case.  Having gears isn’t really that bad of an idea.  Whether you need 6 or more is the bigger question.  In all likelihood, no, you don’t, but having a few gears does make some sense. …

Unfortunately most of the 50 cars here will be sold to collectors who sock them away in climate controlled collections, never once setting tire to a sticky quarter mile.

To some degree I would agree, but ultimately I’d like to think the only things you’d have to worry about in that situation are mostly sensors or just replacing full components based on error codes.  The bigger issue I see with electric vehicles is that the tech is evolving so far that parts may be going obsolete…

Yeah, that concept has constantly taunted me and disappointed me the closer it gets to ever getting made.  The concept is gorgeous and had a growly V8 from the GranTurismo.  Then they announced they were going to put it into production within a few years of the debut (yay!), but would only offer V6 engines (boo).  The…

Beautiful car, kinda reminds me of the Alfieri concept, the other car I wanted more than anything.  I’ll wait 5+ years and buy one for 1/3 of the price though.  There is no way that thing is worth $150k+ to me.  Really I’m not sure I’d even want to pay $50k for what is effectively a 2 seat GT from Volvo.  I pretty…

Hmm, looks like you have a solution for when you need a last minute article to meet a quota deadline, lol.

And the Ilmor team—who later badged their engines as Mercedes when Penske’s previous engine sponsor, GM, backed out of the deal—managed to pull it off.

I’d wonder how much easier cooling might get if you’ve got that much more area to work with.  Everyone thinks bigger brakes will stop better, but if they are locking the tires now, bigger brakes aren’t going to stop any better, they’ll just give more area to dissipate heat (which means they can potentially stop at…

I’ve always wanted a car seat office chair, which is more or less the predecessor to the gaming chair to some degree, at least visually.  It’s not that I want one because I want to show off a current brand or anything like that, I just really like the seats in my car and would prefer to sit in one at my desk than the…

For the last question I think it all comes down to price.  The writer doesn’t say that they necessarily want a new one, or what their CRV is worth.  If you can trade straight across there’s no reason not to.  It ultimately comes down to your finances.  Taking out a loan for more than you can really afford just to get…