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If that was me in high school, that camera woulda caught the same champagne Citrin Beige* colored Saab hitting that thing progressively faster and faster.

Modern cars and their intensity to be fractionally better feel to me like the difference of playing a pickup game with some friends and hiring some all star to join on your side.

It’s not an official Porsche trim level. Instead, it’s a tuning package provided by an external 3rd party shop that happens to be sold as dealer-installed equipment in Europe. It’s kind of similar to the Callaway Corvettes and Saleen Mustangs in the US, or the FQ series of Lan Evos that were sold in the UK. For

I’d love to read this review, but it’s impossible as it crashes my iPhone 12 more than Vin Diesel crashes movie cars.

Ring speeds is exactly what killed the MT in most high-performance cars, which has trickled down the line of even basic sports cars.

The ring is a pretty nasty track with a lot of different type of driving situations - track conditions and tarmac types. It’s pretty hard to drive well. So while the ring gets sort of overused - it’s not really a terrible standard like 0-60 or top speeds. 

I’m thinking we pool our money together and get her out to the ring with a bus, just to see how she handles it.

I thought you meant Mercedes Streeter. But then I thought that would seem out of context because Porsche doesn’t make a school bus. So, yeah, this makes much more sense.

It is a good choice, for the times when Bruce wants to see without being seen.

Well, he did say he way ready to get crazy, right?

*Coughs loudly and points to his own comment from 3 days ago in the other post about Bruce Wayne’s car*

People are rooting for Harley to fail because they relied to hard on the "Im a rebel! Look at my deafening bike and total asshat riding!" crowd. 

I wouldn’t mind Harley failing, so we can get less of the “Loud Pipes Save Lives” douchebags that make the rest of us public enemy #1.

Normally you’d be right, but LH2's density is only 70.85 g/L. Gasoline’s is 748 g/L. So that huge fuel tank might as well be empty. My guess is the tank will be made composite overwrapped aluminum, meaning it will weigh next to nothing to begin with.

Bingo! When H2 leaks, it goes UP very fast, unlike gasoline which likes to pool on the ground and just sit there waiting to be ignited. H2 dissipates quickly especially in an open-air environment. And if it does ignite, it burns fast and up away from people and things on the ground.

Sure, you can joke that all of the big cruisers are too heavy, too expensive, and too old-fashioned, aimed at a dying market”

So, liquid hydrogen is a fairly common fuel in the rocket industry. The strengths and weaknesses of it are well-known. It’s not the craziest thing I’ve ever heard but my gut feeling is that this doesn’t seem advantageous.

Holy Cow, look at the size of that goiter

Possibly the same reason the engines on the A-10 are mounted outside the body: if they go, they don’t take the rest of the car with it. Or in this case, exploding externally, while still catastrophic, is less likely to rip the entire car apart from the inside out, giving the driver a chance to survive the initial

It gets expanded/heated to a non-cryogenic state.