I can’t dispute that but it sounds absolutely ludicrous. I know it’s not really what you write about, but I’d love to read an article about why the hell civil aviation is so expensive nowadays. A Piper Cub originally cost $17k in today’s dollars.

Most of the cost of civil aircraft comes from certificates and liability. Without all that crap, for a UAV, you could certainly sell a 182 a lot closer to the 1958 price of $114k (2015 dollars).

Having the same nominal voltage in a smaller pack isn’t really an issue. You could make a pack with enough voltage by stringing a couple pounds of 9v alkaline batteries together, they just wouldn’t be able to maintain that voltage under enough of a load to drive a Tesla. And most likely would catch fire trying.…

Who is?

Smaller individual cells will produce less available current for the motor controllers to source.

I’ve seen pictures of the inside of a Tesla 85 pack. I don’t remember exact numbers but it’s something like 80 parallel 12 series. So the 65 pack would be 65 parallel 12 series.

Unfortunately a smaller pack wouldn’t be able to produce the same current. Less cells in parallel...

Well, it’s officially less believable than the Top Gun “MIGs”. That’s not an easy feat.

Standard massage seats.

I do like this new review format, but this direction is a slippery slope. Jalopnik has something good going already with its enthusiast following. I don't want to see that get thrown away in a rush to grab gawker views.

They're surprisingly fragile cars with god-awful interiors. But they're also fun as hell to drive, they get great gas mileage, and while they're not 90's toyota level reliable, it only costs like, a twelve pack for a new exhaust manifold or whatever.

Wuh-oh.

I hadn't thought about that Andretti crash in a while. That's scary shit. Indycar is scary shit.

An even higher proportion of pink would be conceivable, based on feedback from the auto show.

The thing nobody seemed to catch about that truck was that it probably has the 6.0 in it, so Mark-1 plumbing effectively sabotaged an ISIS combat vehicle.

#COTD

Yeah, that's what I said. What's your point? If you don't have to worry about ground clearance there's no real reason to stick with a dry-sump setup.

With modern aftermarket oil pans, wet sumps perform just as well as dry sumps in any context. There's only a loss of some ground clearance and a couple horsepower from worse ring sealing to deal with.

Look at how far forward the rear axle is. Dead hookers in Japan must be a lot smaller.

They better make it and I don't care what anyone says, it better damn have a V8.