Hope they made it back there on a Tuesday... it would SAVE THEM 30fucking000 GBP.

Ceiling of 18,000ft though. I think the lift/unimproved runway aspects of it are the more important part. Fuel consumption is a nice bonus.

I'm sure this has been taken well into consideration, but... what happens when one of these gets shot at? I'm not being one of the "but hydrogen burns super easy yo!" idiots, I just mean in terms of maintaining helium pressure in the bladder. These things are pretty much useless to the army if they can be taken out of…

The average family car needs 300hp because the average family car weighs 4,000 lbs. Unfair to use your 318ti as an example, since it is probably half the weight of the SUV the soccer mom with one child MUST HAVE TO BE SAFE ON OUR DANGEROUS STREETS ZOMG!!!1!1!!! Ahh, but I digress...

Also, for your viewing pleasure:

Audi MC12/3B/AAN motors. There is nothing out there that sounds like their inline 5's, it's like a swarm of angry bees being struck by lightning when those motors are bouncing off redline. Their sound is as distinctive as the BMW inline 6... cannot be mistaken, and oh-so beautiful.

Speed humps might not be the best idea to convince those who are speeding to slow down, I hear they have destabilizing effects when driven over quickly. Also, note that those steel light posts that are right at the edge of the road are built like brick shit houses. I know it is kind of an expensive fix, but accidents…

Not to worry, UAE is also guilty of those things. Like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, UAE operates on a sort of patronage system, with UAE citizens getting benefits just because they are citizens, while general labor is conducted by poor workers from other countries who receive little pay and none of the benefits that the…

Miatas are one of the safest cars on the road during rollover accidents. This is especially true if you are over 5'11". They also rate will in side impact safety, and accidents involving much larger vehicles, like SUVs, trucks, and Mini clubmans.

Native Americans probably similarly the same way the first time someone took a photograph of them, then showed them the captured picture of themselves. Maybe it is just folklore, but my understanding is that they believed (initially) that photographic equipment somehow captured a piece of their "soul", leading them to…

Cheating takes many forms, especially in NASCAR. I have a close family friend who, when watching NASCAR with me, could tell me pretty much exactly what the finishing order was going to be for the top drivers in the last few races leading up to the sprint. He worked with a few of the NASCAR teams over the years during…

Unless you're driving a car that meters fuel using a carburetor, you do not need to let the car warm up for 10-15 minutes. I'm not saying turn the thing on when it is -10° and go dorifto ken block style, but modern fuel injection and synthetic oils have done away with the need for the engine to warm fully before being…

Real men drive stick shifts that were built pre clutch lockout era :)

I've heard somewhere around here that Fisher makes a decent one. Rumors suggest it works in a pretty broad range of condition.

I can't truly refute you before seeing the C7's curb weight, but AWD and torque vectoring may have something to say about that. Audi is +100hp anyways, and Audi tends to be conservative with their numbers. If there still remains a question, perhaps the MTM RS6R would settle the problem... more horsepower and torque…

Can you cite this? I'm not trying to be dickish, I truly want to learn more about it. I didn't know about this at all, and now I wonder about my own property.

Damn donkey. Probably got the idea from watching youtube.

Drifts over speed bump. Nice. Also, brake stand in traffic was a nice touch.

So the argument is that any time a human is given a choice, we automatically have a preference, regardless of the number of choices. Because if this, we are never actually "making a choice", but rather reviewing the options while our bodies set in motion the chemical reactions that will ultimately lead to whatever our…

But isn't the choice to press any button at all one of free will? I get the argument behind pressing a particular one of the buttons being driven by some unconscious force, but a choice to accomplish a task is still done by one's own volition... it seems, according to this article, how that task is accomplished it…