Here’s an interesting look into the design of the Escort Cosworth by the designer himself, Frank Stephenson:

Also, coal represents only about 16% of national kWh generation: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3

It’s a Jeep thing.  Or something.

An occasionally confused and stuttering Joe Biden with decades of experience is infinitely better than a completely lucid Donald Trump.

“Here I am, we’re leading, we’re leading in the polls, we’re leading by a lot. We’re leading by a lot. They said, ‘Oh, we don’t have to worry about him.’ Oh no, they have to worry about me. Boy they don’t like me. You know they used to like Obama. They used to like, they like Biden, you know why? They got away with…

That question is older than many commenters on this website. First and foremost, the Modern SUV has always been about projection of strength.  Very few buy them purely for their technical capabilities, especially once you get into the unibody style crossovers.

It gets tricky when you compare features and performance of 1999 models to 2024 models. Cars and trucks are almost universally more well-equipped than their 25 year old contemporaries.

It sounds like he was unable to discern critical issues from minor ones, or he was intentionally assigning the same risk to all issues as a distraction from the critical few.

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dang it

This is beginning to sound like: RAN WHEN DOCKED. MINOR BODY DAMAGE. CLEAN SUBFAX. FLOATS AND DIVES LIKE NEW. RARE 1 OF 1 TITANIC SPECIAL!!! 12K DEPTH RATING GUARANTEE.  TEST DRIVES WELCOME

The McMurtry Spéirling is pretty much that car. Its does 7 second passes in the 1/4 mile and can do 0-100MPH in 2.6 seconds.

Durant said “This will be bowling without beer and it’s going to be done.” He believe bowling was a family friendly activity, not just for men.

Was that prototype sitting on the production chassis?

The engine is going into a custom tube-frame chassis with Supra bodywork on top. That V8 may not even fit in the Z4/Supra production chassis.

The gigantic graphic describing very specific technical details - the number of camshafts and number of valves - is very period appropriate. Just a few years earlier, Honda was placing “5 SPEED” badges on the Civic to let everyone know their car had one more gear than the competition.  Those kinds of things are long…

Also, spending money is not synonymous with wealth.

No wax for years

Hill is an all-star player, a Superbowl winner, and one of the fastest receivers in the history of the league, but none of that matters when you’re facing a squad of half a dozen of Miami Dade’s finest.

Brakes, blinkers? Where we’re going, we don’t need those...