Your UPS almost certainly has lead acid batteries (since weight isn't a factor, so go with the cheap ones) - whereas the Prius likely has Lithium Ion batteries (since weight does matter). The Prius batteries cost significantly more - but they also weigh significantly less (per unit volume and especially per unit…

A while ago I was told this:

German car: Right side, so you're standing on the safe side of the vehicle if you need to refill on the side of the highway

American car: Left side, because lazy drivers don't have to walk far to reach filler

Japanese car: Right side, because "efficient" drivers don't have to walk far to…

Clearcoat would provide some corrosion resistance - but it would be much harder to spot defects in the paint (which could lead t o corrosion)

Koenigsegg has already defined what a "megacar" is to them with the one::1. It means it has 1MW of power, aka 1341hp (or more).

One of my first cars (Pontiac LeMans... no not the good version) had at best 74hp IIRC in a 4 passenger hatchback. Given the miles on that thing, I wouldn't be surprised if it had less wheel horsepower than my shifter kart. It was anything but a sports car, but it really wasn't as bad as you would think. I did have…

... it's 1967. They just hoped it wouldn't happen.

Same reason the driver was on the right side of the car - so he's sure to hit the wall extra hard if something goes wrong.

It was built in 1967.... probably just a super thin piece of aluminum or steel.

I thought that technically Pikes Peak was at least partially a private road

I have to admit, I once had a Miata that I drove for nearly a month with no rear brakes before I noticed - that includes even one autocross event. The brakes behaved much the same as on any other car I've driven, albeit with a bit more front bias than I expected, but mostly the only symptom I noticed was that there…

If speed is so important to these ships, why don't they have a more streamlined tail? Would that not reduce drag, and therefore improve speed for the same horsepower?

Seems more and more, the only service related items in the owners manual is the frequency at which to bring it to the dealer. You're not supposed to actually change the wiper blades, so why on earth would they tell you how to do it? They just list in there that you're supposed to bring it in to the dealer every 10k…

This was at the Syracuse location (Nissan in particular) - he has a dozen or so dealerships all over the state.

I once checked on a car there, but the huge deal was basically MSRP (but the [72] payments were so low...). After telling the salesman "no", he sweetened the deal with "what if I let you meet Billy?" Yeah, that will put me over the edge to buy the car :eyeroll:

Looks more like the entire image of the car was flipped (either that or they made a clone RHD version of the car for that shot).

You're probably thinking of last year's Toyota LMP1. They basically had theirs designed to be flexible so that it would bend back at speed (DRS), and then bend back for max downforce at slower speeds.

For example, notice how the center 1/3 of the wing is a lighter shade of green (and thus not doing as much work) than the outer 2/3's?

It's mostly done because keeping air attached to the surface of the bottom of the wing is much harder and more important than keeping it attached to the top surface of the wing. Mounting it with a swan neck like that keeps the bottom surface cleaner, and thus makes the wing more efficient.

The opposite effect is true…

Still feel the RX7 was more a copy of this:

...but it's not (entirely). It's actually a system of two suspension bridges plus several smaller bridges (the area it crosses is named "the 1000 islands" for a reason). The photo does show the suspension bridge that is on the Canadian side, but the original photo in my post was of the even larger and taller…

Businesses also like leasing versus buying because the exit path is "return it to the dealer" as opposed to "pretending you're a car dealership and trying to sell the car off".