stephen-macarthur
Stephen
stephen-macarthur

The upcoming BMW M3 or M5 wagon. Has to be automatic in case I age to the point that body decides it can’t push a clutch pedal anymore.

Musk claimed that a crewed mission to Mars will happen in just five years time.

The fastest set of Hyundai Sonata tail lights outside of a Hertz fleet.

Where did all of these Civics go? One day they were everywhere, and now they’re almost completely gone. It’s a treat if you see one out on the road at this point.

True Red is good in an un-sophisticated way.

I wonder if the engineers ever pointed this out and if they did, what they were told to do (or not do). 

The crane is so big, it won’t fit on a website.

Evan Hayden went out and suggested some heinous Mazda green and THEN suggested Mazda True Red. So close, yet so far.

I believe some of them are just completely shameless people driven solely by power and attention.

Obama once said something that stuck with me.  Something along the lines of: if you and I can’t agree on a common set of facts, we have no chance of making progress together.

I suspect the tires would destroy themselves either by centrifugal force or by heat well before mach 1. It is difficult and expensive to make tires that survive beyond 200mph. Basic Corolla tires would stand no chance to extreme speed!

A hypothetical Corolla traveling at mach 139 brings up a lot of fun questions:

95 + 116 = 211 mega tons

A ship can drop anchor in an attempt to avert a collision, but given the Dali’s size, speed and distance from the bridge, such a move most likely wouldn’t have helped, said Morgan McManus, an instructor at SUNY Maritime College in New York who has worked on cargo ships and tankers.

Our Toyota dealer tried to sell us a 3rd party protection plan that duplicated some services already in the Toyoguard Platinum plan. I had to try way too hard to get them to realize this and remove it.

That chart represents Imports. What is GM building overseas and selling in North America?

And that’s just in MARCH...what in the world are they shipping? A few hundred Outlanders and those Fuso trucks?

Darn it, my brand new Suzano Pulp Sport was on that boat...

Is there a car that has the charging port in a more conspicuous place?  It looks very poorly placed.

You are hinting at Total Cost of Ownership, which is often glossed over in discussions about buying cars. I think a lot of people are lured in by one aspect of TCO without knowing all costs and making a measured decision. Or they make assumptions without really doing the math.