I think it’s fascinating that these cars are driven more in 1 year than they are in 10 years. I’m guessing that mileage depreciates along with the value of the car, but it could be time travel, I guess.

I’m sure you didn’t mean to imply that David was passing the horse-drawn carriage.

somebody with a welder and a sense of humor is committed.

To truly capture the millennial spirit, the car should be financed at a high interest rate over 120 months by someone with crippling student loans, who works three jobs to stay above water.

Once I had a tire that developed a very slow leak. I was pretty sure that there was a nail in it, so I took it in to get it repaired (because I had to drive eight hours with a trailer the next day, and I wanted to make sure the tire was in good shape). They took it in without an appointment, ran a bubble test, and…

Honest question (I’m trying to become more of a car guy, but I’m not one yet.):

I want a utilitarian EV for daily commuting. Usually, much less than a hundred miles per day, so ideally a maximum range of 150 miles would provide a good emergency buffer.

At least nobody’s suggesting putting these things in some sort of tightly-packed underground passageway with no access for emergency services.

Interceptero. FTFY.

Sorry, I get the confusion. I meant vehicles like an Ekranoplan, that use small airfoils to skim the surface of the ground or water, not wheeled vehicles needing downforce.

Does anyone ever test ground effect vehicles at Bonneville? It seems like the perfect place for a bunch of speed- and aero-obsessed Star Wars fans to build landspeeders.

An air-mail jeep. I like it. It could assist with short range deliveries to places that would otherwise require a bush plane.

Semi-serious question: Does the Coast Guard have any ships with deck guns big enough for a person?

This guy must have made a typo on a car forum, and now he has to prove that he...

How about a compromise? The artificial vehicle noise can shut down whenever the sirens are on.

Silly Tesla, don’t you know that flying cars are still two years away?

Thanks Alex, “What do an Audi A8 and a rusty Ford with severe frame damage have in common?”

My first car was a used Camry (FWD) with original (mediocre and used) tires in the winter, in New York. It was my first time ever driving in the snow, and I was heading down a hill, towards an intersection (thankfully, on a rarely used, middle-of-nowhere road).

I love reading about Bonneville: the dedication of the various teams is amazing. Are there any groups working on ground effect vehicles for the salt flats? It seems like a great place to test overland ekranoplanes(ekranoplans? sp?). Call them land speeders and get some modern sci-fi/aeronautics nerds involved.

Can’t they just use his parked car as a ramp?