What would be curious to know is how many actual testing miles they have on some of these technologies. The Freevalve setup is awesome, but if they are only building a few dozen cars a year that use it and those are multi million dollar cars that rarely get driven to begin with, what’s the real practical number?

I think it’s also worth noting that limiting the fuel flow rate is also one of the easier ways of effectively limiting the overall power output of the car.  Sure, some teams are going to have more efficient engines than others, but ultimately speaking fuel only contains so much energy, and if you limit how fast you…

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Woah woah woah, I’ve seen my fair share of V8 bikes before, but never one with a transverse V8.  That’s just wild.  I thought it was just your average 4 cylinder when I saw the pipes on the front.

Kind of reminds me of a Saleen S7.

There was a similar article I read like this the other day, but it had actual numbers on it. The EV does start with one foot in the hole, but it didn’t take too terribly long to catch up. It was on a purely miles driven basis and would obviously matter what kind of car you’re comparing it against, but I think by…

I used to have a picture somewhere, but I’m having trouble finding it. I went to lunch one day at work and when I walked out of the restaurant there was a Charger police car on one side of my car and an Explorer police car on the other. My car looked like a toy between them.

I would disagree about weight not being an issue, though perhaps in a different light than with passenger cars. The more weight you can take out of a truck (while still maintaining strength), the more payload and towing you can get while still staying in your actual vehicle class.

I think the site would give him negative values.  He’d have to pay to get them to take them off his hands.

I care only in the sense that I want whatever car I have to get the best economy it can. That doesn’t mean I want a car that gets the best economy in its class or anything like that. I have a 71 Vette with a 3 speed and a carb and it can get anything from 10 to 15 mpg depending on how it’s tuned up and maintained, so…

I got one at Harbor Freight, but my main issue with it is cleaning it out between fluids (or not since I typically don’t).  For the most part I’m not sure I care if I get a little bit of one type of oil mixed with another, but it would almost be better to get a pump for each fluid (they are relatively cheap after all)…

An actual working CT scanner?  That seems dubious.  Looks more like a “CT scanner themed stereo”.

People need to quit calling Vipers massive hunks of vehicle. Look up the overall dimensions of a 458/488 Ferrari, I’ll wait. Okay, now look up the same overall dimensions of the Viper. Guess what? They are nearly identical.  Are Ferraris considered huge cars?  I’ve never heard that particular description for them at…

How are trucks “low engineering” vehicles?  They may have more room to work with, but they also have the added complexity of having a suspension that has to work unloaded and loaded with another 50% of the vehicle’s weight.  Add towing to that and the desire for tech regardless of what vehicle people are driving and …

For the Tennessee comment, I have a similar setup that I struggle with.  My best friend lives out in San Francisco and I’m in Kansas.  I’d absolutely love to drive my Viper up and down the Pacific Coast Highway and visit him someday, but the problem is more the 2+ days of driving it would take to get there to begin…

Why does everything need to be a “tailored experience” nowadays? I think that’s part of the problem with the world lately. Everyone wants everything to be centered around them. It turns everything into an echo chamber where you only hear and see the things you like. Just leave the dang thing neutral and let the user…

It really just comes down to what your engine likes. I won’t put anything else in my 04 Viper because I’m paranoid and because it doesn’t have knock sensors (didn’t have them till 06). My 71 Vette only has a 8.5:1 compression ratio small block 350, so I’m pretty sure that means it would run on just about anything with…

My dad had a 93 Stealth with over 300k when we sold it. The timing belt tensioner gave up at 255k and slipped taking out all the valve which led to and engine rebuild, but all we really had to do was fix the valves. The block was still in great shape and only needed to be cleaned, no real machine work to speak of.

My brother in law does the chocolates for overseas flight thing as well.  He’s also just a power lifter sized dude, so it helps him get a better chance at a seat upgrade and some more room.

This is a great example to use when people ask what a car is worth.  Too many people overvalue low mileage cars in my opinion.   It’s more about how well something was taken care of, because a car with a ton of miles and excellent service is still going to be nicer than a low mileage car that was beat to hell.  This…