This is the engine in the Nissan. It’s a 1.8 litre engine but it’s actually putting out more power per litre than our One:1 right now!

My kids (ages 3 and 5) and I followed Juno on the “Eyes” visualizer all day yesterday. We even managed to “check on the spaceship” right before the engine burn at bedtime PDT last night. Good time for a dramatic “5, 4, 3, 2, 1, BURN!” in my best booming Dad voice.

Somebody needs to put in an aftermarket nav system voiced by Teddy Ruxpin.

Oh good, it’s not just me. I thought I’d made Stef mad somehow.

It’s a reference to the pre-war racing Bentleys that had numbers painted on their grilles.

Hey Stef, I thought I was already out of the grays with you. What’s up?

That’s exactly how felt when I took the family around PIR in my Mazda5 last weekend. The track had an open house where you could take your own car out for two “performance paced” parade laps. I had the three- and five-year-old behind me chirping “This is fun!” as I blipped downshifts, clipped curbs, and wound it out…

WHOOP-pahhh!

I know it was just a replica, but seeing that car crash backward through the window and into the ravine still makes me catch my breath every time.

The Mazda Furai. As soon as they build another one.

If a modern-day F-35 has a helmet that lets the pilot see “through” the plane, I imagine the Empire could figure out something similar for the TIEs.

OK, here’s a question. I’ve always heard that lightning travels upward from the ground into the clouds, but here we see the tendrils propagating downward. Are they the wayfinders that establish a path for the main upward flash, or is that factoid just plain wrong?

at a restaurant that, for some cruel reason, had no flat surfaces in either restroom on which we could change her.

Lotus’s new shifter ain’t bad either. Why be subtle with your phallic symbol?

“One thing that puzzles me, though, are the things that give the U-Wing its name, those two long aerodynamic-looking prongs.”

Torch, the answer is right in front of you. It spent its entire working life going to church, and you yourself called it the Holy Grail.

Careful, they might pin a medal on you.

Amen. The testing should account for the source of the gas, too, with published statistical results. Then we’ll know if Chevron/Shell/etc. name-brand gas is really better than Rusty’s Fill-Ups & Hair-Doos.

Porsche has a pattern lately of naming somewhat similar cars with sequential numbers (e.g. 917 —> 918 —> 919). Following that pattern, I would guess the 960 is a successor to the 959.

Beat me to it.