If you want to be pedantic, they weren’t called Audis yet, but the Auto Union 1000 SP Thunderbird clone was pretty nice.

I’m sure there’s all sorts o reason why it wouldn’t work, but imagine a series like that with today’s technology.

Plus whatever surcharges they stick on that, plus airports are usualy stuck as far away from you live as possible. and they usually insist you show up at least an hour before the flight for security and such, so depending on where the train stations are, and what kind of security theatre they make you go through, the…

You’re not wrong. Coal fired plants were using towers like that long before nuclear power was a thing.

It was also a time of peak boomer nostalgia, so time does tend to put a warm, fuzzy glow on things.

Because this is not just some pointless exercise in virtue signalling. We have to wean people off the dinosaur juice whether they care about the environment or not,  and if a giant electric substitute dick helps to do it, all the better.

When people like this recite their list of talking points, I have to wonder if they actually understand what they’re saying.

Just to clarify, Mickey Thompson only went one way on his record run, so it was never official. If you’re going to count single passes, John Cobb went 402 mph on on of his runs when he set his record of 394 mph back in 1947, so he was the first to break 400mph, not Thompson.

I came here to post the Chevrolet Copper Cooled. GM bought them all back, and destroyed all but two. All the engines mentioned in the article were rousing successes by comparison.

Because someone has to be That Guy,  NASA didn’t actually design the worm logo.   They commissioned it, but it was created by Raymond Loewy, or at least, his design firm.

For me, it has to be the Lucas P700s

Definitely getting flashbacks to C. M. Kornbluth’s, “The Marching Morons” here.

If anything, I see first gen Camaro with a little Mangusta in that front, and I think it makes for a tasty combo.

Nah, the Dailu is still cooler.

It’s news to this Canuck as well.

E. L. Cord, a depression era Elon Musk, without the personality disorders.

Isn’t amazing how the merest whiff of basic human decency can get you branded as a left wing loon nowadays?

Citroen SM. Looks like a prop from a Gerry Anderson production, but would probably need an army of NASA techs to keep it running.

If anything, I’m getting a strong vibe of this Pininfarina concept, but that’s not a bad thing at all.