I’m going to go with weight distribution, or maybe suspension geometry related to weight distribution. My only experience driving a 944 was on the Nordschleife, and even though it had pretty tight suspension for a $750 shitbox it felt as though the rear end was quite mobile - I spun it shifting down for Wehrseifen,…

I think you’re overestimating the processing power required to point a missile at something, and underestimating the amount of power in a smartphone. Here’s one of the US’s earliest guided bombs. Note what it’s attached to.

And yet we’re still using Hellfires to turn single combatants into pink mist. Such is death.

I’m thinking about a tenth of the size of the SDB, and with only INS and GPS guidance (A smartphone can manage both) to keep the cost down. For most of the targets you don’t need anything much bigger than a hand grenade.

I guess the problem is that somehow or other, despite 15 years of fighting this war, we’ve never planned to fight this war. The bombs and missiles we’re buying are for destroying a tank or a bunker, not a Toyota Hilux or a shack.

The internet is 55.5% English, so quite a lot.

Interestingly the verb came after the noun - according to the internet “surveil” didn’t happen until the 1960s. I guess before that we just watched things.

This one is pretty awesome.

I’ve softened my line on the game a little as time has gone on and I’ve found some more of the background stuff. the main quest line is weak, true enough, but there’s a load of properly weird things to get involved in elsewhere. In many respects, the plot just gets in the way of it being Fallout.

No, she’s just a Jerk. However, she does count as a settler, so now he’s running the supply line to Spectacle Island for me as a Sentry Bot. It’s quite funny watching her driving around under the water.

For an awful lot of people, one major consideration of a car purchase is “Can it be my only car?”. Now, while it’s nice to have a completely open car, in many parts of the world it’s rare to be able to have the roof open - mainly because it’s too hot rather than too cold (the UK buys more convertibles per head of…

Terrible in a different way. US roads are all cracked concrete and expansion joints, which a live axle can handle pretty well.

I think the reverse grid suggestion has merit, but for it to work you’ll need to start giving points for qualifying. I think that’s a pretty good idea - you’ll get a decent split of strategies that way, with the top teams running a conservative strategy in qualifying to get to the back and the lower rank teams putting…

It doesn’t rain in NASCAR.

Interestingly the first roadgoing application of the DSG box seems to be the Lupo 3l, which was an economy car with a 1.2 3 cylinder turbodiesel, able to travel 100km on 3 litres of diesel.

A friend had one of these, and IIRC the gearing was a bit longer than that - about 20mph/1000rpm in top. I remember the windscreen wiper broke on the motorway and I had to stand up and lean over the windscreen to fix it at around 65. Once you get above 80 the rain stops coming in to the cabin, so you don’t even need a…

Two words: “Road Trip”. I’m 100% certain that the best thing to do would be to buy the thing and drive straight across the country.

You forgot Brooke, Ginetta, Grinnall, Lotus, Marlin, Radical, Ultima, and Westfield. Nobody does impractical shed-built trackday cars like the British.

In UK employment law, a (usually fake) consultation period is mandatory prior to a mass layoff. That’s probably what’s happening here.

This sort of program is great - the rich people who have spent all the money on this limited edition have effectively paid to homologate all of the nice things on this car so that they can be sold in unlimited quantities to only slightly less rich people.