Even in a vacuum... serious true religion vibes. Couple that with toothpaste leather and it’s just funny

Just to join the dogpile, aviation engines require very expensive maintenance. Eliminating that could be a Big Deal for cost/flight hour

Ha! Sur Ron leapt to mind as soon as I started reading.

Tbh, I assume the whole thing is a design exercise and attention grabber. I don’t think the engineers have to worry about it, at least in a mass-production sense.

It was an army aviation unit, which the author would have known, had he bothered to skim the wikipedia article on the operation

Thanks for the correction, wasn’t aware of this. I don’t imagine it would stay full-hard after being welded up into a unibody though...

I know I shouldn’t expect much from FA anymore, but this is exceedingly sloppy.

Social Security doesn’t work because politicians broke it, then pointed to its brokenness as a reason they should break it further.

Stainless is not exactly the cheapest or lightest material, but cold-rolled and work hardened sheet is certainly some of the most durable.

I would be super into this if any of it were accurate.

I don’t think this is going to be a German killer. I’m just saying it might be a 10yo R8 killer, for the demographic of potential buyers who are attracted to the R8 for being the most impressive sports car they can afford.

I get that many sports car buyers are very particular about the feature set they want from their…

How could there be evidence for something that hasn’t happened yet?

I can’t get over it. So perfect

Comments like this are exactly why I scroll straight to the comments section on these threads.

I get that, but I’m pretty sure in 10-15 years yours will be reaching the limits of what can be upgraded without having to replace something very expensive and thoroughly integrated into the car.

I guess my issue was around the idea of treating this as a grand refresh, where the car goes back to the factory and they comb through the car to find/replace anything that won’t last another ten years. And also you can turn your sedan into a wagon or whatever dumb shit

I’m sure it makes sense for planes and heavy equipment. I’m guessing because of lead times, difficulty of field repairability, commodity nature of the machine, cost of downtime, or risks involved with waiting until a component fails...

I was under the impression the author was talking about 250k model S’s with grubby interiors and broken trim pieces. The value prop makes a lot more sense for classic cars.

If you had a tacoma with 175k miles, that you bought new and spent $15k reconditioning at 150k miles, would you list it for $20k? Or would you try to recoup some of that reconditioning money?

Who would want this? Why would a factory want to introduce a fuckton of complexity into their production line? Why would a tesla owner want to spend a bunch of money to have a refreshed version of their old car? Why would a jalop want to constrain the supply of junkyard tesla parts?