Agreed, that’s I guess what I was ultimately getting at, though didn’t do a very good job of pointing out. I just get a bit tired of every retirement advice basically being “throw everything possible into a retirement account and wait it out”. I get that that means you can potentially retire earlier, which would let…

Lol, patent it now.

Yeah, I guess I forget and traffic and gridlock as I don’t experience it on a regular basis.  I have ~30 minute commute to work, but it’s on fairly empty highways, so it’s a nice way for me to ease into the day.  Autonomous would be really nice for bumper to bumper.

The problem I have with a Tesla power unit install is that you have to take the whole suspension with it, or at least it’s set up that way and that seems like the easiest approach. The problem there is you are swapping out the whole suspension on just one end of your car. That’s not really a good idea at all. Sure,…

Maybe, but that platform had been around for decades already, so I find that a little tougher to believe. Look at the other Japanese companies around the same time and you can see that a lot of them were going way overbuilt and high tech just because they were flush with cash. That doesn’t mean it couldn’t have been…

Totally fair.  I think I’m somewhere in the middle.  I don’t want to wait 30 years to do something I’ve always wanted to do, but at the same time I’m not going to live paycheck to paycheck just so I don’t feel like I’m missing out.

In the case of miles where you are actually a passenger in the car, I get the feeling those wouldn’t necessarily increase as much. Say you have an AV and move out to the country and have a 45 minute commute now instead of the 15 minutes you used to. That’s still time you are stuck in a vehicle sorta doing nothing.…

That’s really a hard thing to plan for entirely though, and I think there are two schools of thought. Some people want to save as much as they can so they can retire early and just live off interest. If you can control yourself and only use the interest and not dip into the savings, then awesome job, good for you. But…

I mean, I could get a 3000 GT VR4 for probably one less zero in the price and probably have just as nice of a car, plus I could buy one of those locally and not have to worry about importing it.

They reduce interior volume because then you need huge wheel arches and housings.

I grew up drinking orange juice as a kid, but switched to milk at some point.  It’s still my standard and favorite drink and I pretty much have a glass at each meal I have when at home at least.  I drink real whole milk too, none of that silly skim or 2% stuff that’s basically just white water.

Depends on your dyno system.  A lot of them are just force sensors on a spinning “thing” with some drag to overcome, so you are measuring torque to get work or power.  Others might go off of drum speed and some known load like an eddy current brake or drum inertia.

That’s not exactly a huge achievement given the junk we were putting out back then.  I don’t really get the fervor for M3s either, but this just feels like a Japanese M3 to me.  Both come across as very over hyped to me, though admittedly I wasn’t really of driving age back when either of these were new.  I’ve…

But then no one can see you driving it, which is part of the fun of a supercar.

The side glass now is more functional for the driver, thanks to a special know-how of window cutline – used among the others for Lamborghini Countach

That is road-load horsepower at 50 mph. This factor incorporates friction and aero drag

Yeah, curious to see how the bottom might fall out of these in the future.  They just don’t feel like they can keep that kind of value in the long run.  Sure there will still be some prime collector examples like any car, but these just don’t seem unique enough.

I’d like to point out, he still has human teeth.  Why people thought this was such a big deal I don’t really understand.  It was the rest of him looking like they were too lazy to animate so they used a motion capture suit and just painted it blue that was the bigger issue.

I’ve never quite understood why people go so crazy for GT-Rs.  They’re kinda just like an AMG Mercedes or M BMW in my eyes.  A somewhat hotted up version of a regular sedan.  They aren’t (or at least weren’t) a platform all their own, they were just a higher trim level (in a sense) of a regular car.  I guess that’s…

At least it means we might finally get to see the Alfieri in production.  I’m still disappointed it won’t have the snarly V8, but at least it means I’ll maybe get to see one.