I find it very interesting that there is so little in the way of demand for hybrid vehicles in China. As a country at least, China has made overtures towards green technology and bettering what others have done in that regard, and yet, they're about as efficacious in that regards as we are in the US.

It's a minor facelift of the 2007 concept. It's not a new concept.

They actually showed that in 2007, and then promptly did nothing with it, as per usual. The fact that they are showing it again however, is somewhat interesting; is it perhaps indicative of the fact that they might actually intend on doing something with it this time around?

I don't think that's the case at all. I think that the reason for the lack of consistency is that there simply hadn't been a perceived need for it for a very long time. There has been a dramatic push for such consistency in recent years, but the question is still a difficult one due to the fact that the push for…

I, too, am a battleship nerd. Aircraft carriers are boring, and, interestingly are beginning to encounter their limits as practical warships.

They did, actually, and at the time, they made perfect sense. The US and other parts of the world were importing oil from Iran, and the Suez canal was closed to them. Thus, if long trips had to be made, it made the most sense to transport as much as possible with each ship. However, when the canal was available for…

...Except that DWT, or Dead Weight Tonnage, is not a measurement of displacement. It's a measurement of how much weight the ship can safely carry. By that measurement, Orlove is correct in asserting that the Seawise Giant holds the world record for deadweight tonnage.

I love ships, but the sheer arcane nerdery and the general lack of consistent metrics and standards in the nautical world is a confusing pain in the ass. There is so much bullshit and manipulation of facts and figures that it makes GM's accounting procedures seem downright simple.

And the Italians lost a beautiful, if somewhat improperly designed, ocean liner. It's really a shame because, from a historic standpoint, that loss of the Andrea Doria arguably hastened the already-coming end of the ocean liner era.

There are a couple of issues of with the Seawise Giant argument, as it wasn't technically the largest as-built; that award goes to the also-mentioned Pierre Guillaumat.

By Maranello's estimate, October 30th, 1963.

What TTAC is doing is a very big and very cool reader project to get a generate more reader involvement, and I think it's great. However, I'm just not sure that I understand how the car they are ordering is somehow a comparable challenge to the to the 320i ZPS/ZMT. It's a more powerful, more expansively optioned, and…

I believe she is still fitting out, but she is structurally and mechanically complete. In terms of the classification of size as applied to luxury yachts, she's still bigger.

Points for the basic understanding of biology and human physiology, and points for giving a reasonable explanation of why you dislike the car.

I can't decide if this or that childish argument made by some commenter named "klinging" or something like that in the Stirling Moss post is the most nonsensical thing I've read on Jalopnik this week.

Well, a car is merely an inanimate object. It does not possess any characteristics beyond the fact that it is a car. It is we, as humans, that tend to anthropomorphize them and associate human characteristics with them. Thus, there is no such thing as a "chick car." There is only a car, and whatever characteristics we…

Unlike merchant vessels, whose size tends to be measured by Gross Tonnage, luxury yachts are frequently categorized by length. In that regard, the Eclipse has actually just recently been surpassed by newly-launched Project Azzam, which is almost 20 meters longer. Gross Tonnage on either yacht is unknown.

There is no such thing as a "girly car." There are only men who are so insecure in their masculinity that they actually care what other people think of their car and inexplicably feel it necessary to imply that femininity is somehow inferior to masculinity.

Though the answer to this question may seem simple, it's actually quite complex, and is dependent upon any number of variables. Though it may seem unimaginable to those of us car nerds familiar with every kind of car and brand from Cleveland Diesel to Toyota and beyond, the world of maritime history is vastly broader…

Actually, no, the first image is an early P-51A/B razorback Mustang. The second image is a P-51D. But in any case, it was the cars that we were talking about.