“Vanishing Point" certainly makes sense as a name for the last of the line.

Because the manufacturing costs in Australia would have meant selling every single one at a loss. 

Australia can't trade vehicles with the US, they can't be produced cheaply enough in Australia to sell profitably in the US. Vehicle manufacturing is finished in Australia. Trying to make wholesale changes to the road infrastructure and changing everybody's driving habits in pursuit of it is a pipedream.

It does look an awful lot like them, yeah. Seems to work quite well too in that application.

A Veyron is producing around 750 kW in useful power, but its energy consumption at top speed (assuming the touted 5.3L/min fuel consumption figure is correct, and that fuel has 34.2 MJ/L energy content), is very close to 3 MW. So the heat rejection rate, assuming the cooling system is sized to allow approximately…

2005+ from what I can see (based on a couple of forums, and on checking prices of the few available for sale here), so you can get it a bit earlier than you thought!

That’s for an earlier 4-speed one, yeah. Though 2005+ models with the 6-speed can be found for a under $16.5K USD (if you aren’t fussy about colour - I would not be that happy with a white one for example). Not that I'm in a position to buy one for fun, but it would be a cool car to tour around in (fuel economy…

The forefather of the LFA.

I’m seriously tempted to buy one of those - they’re not even that expensive here in Australia (you can pick up a G50 with the wool interior for the equivalent of $13K USD).

He wasn’t wrong about Balestre either...

“Invest your hard-earned dollars in Moneytron, he said, and you’ll become infinitely wealthy.”

Solved!

AEB systems are limited by sensor range and computing power, and then must be tuned to have a very low rate of false positives. The system needs to detect the potential crash partner, determine the likelihood of impact from their relative trajectories, determine whether that likelihood meets the threshold for…

Much like other extremist ideologies, the approach to people who believe this stuff probably needs to be de-radicalization. Which is, from what I understand, a very difficult process. Made doubly difficult by high rates of mental health issues within that community.

“if she was Married for 27 years, I wouldn’t surprised if the kids are 27, 26, and 25, respectively.”

Can I change my answer about the ugliest car?

Which motherfucker is putting up or shutting up in this scenario?

Not quite...

Your assessment sounds right to me. The 2015 season was a weird one - the Red Bull wasn’t very good, and Ricciardo had the bad luck to retire a few times when he was in a points-scoring position a bit more often than Kvyat (he had him comfortably beaten in qualifying).

Has he ever genuinely been in the hunt for a WDC? No. Unfortunately, Ricciardo’s peak coincided with Mercedes developing an all-conquering monster of an engine that won them the last eight WCCs and seven of the last eight WDCs. His third placings in 2014 and 2016 were the best he could possibly hope for during that…