I think Ferraris look best in blue, but I’m in the extreme minority it seems.

Yo dog, I heard you like amphibious vehicles...

Subarus have been hideous more often than not, so I’ll take ‘bland’ or ‘safe’ over the alternatives. I just hope the interior is as nice as it looks and it’s driving dynamics are much less Toyota than the current generation is.

Way to ignore my question about your product’s volumes, which would probably ruin your argument. Also, good job ignoring my whole explanation of how cost is effected by volumes and secondary operations. Did any of that seem like an exaggeration, or did you skim everything until I admitted my example cost was selected…

I’ve in the aerospace, medical device, and now firestopping industry as a design and product development engineer, but this is the internet and our credentials don’t matter much.

The issue is the lack of volume. Your plastidip process is probably not practical for any real production volume, so other processes have to be used. Making a small run of any variation on a standard product is extremely expensive if different processes, different tools, or extra steps have to be taken in production.

The answer is volume and tooling cost. You can paint or plastidip one part in an hour or so, but that’s not practical for a production run of hundreds or thousands of cars. So to produce that run of parts and ensure acceptable quality, you need to make adjustments to the usual production process, schedule it into the…

Understatement of the week, and it’s only Monday. I was specifically looking for a ‘small’ but powerful Android device this past summer and hoped the Z5 Compact would come to the US market. Sony was silent, though, and the fact that they had pulled out of the US retail market was discouraging.

I hope the French wheel out the guillotine for this asshole and his compatriots. If there’s ever justification for the death penalty, this is it.

I’d be more worried about emissions and safety standards being met (regardless of the TPPs efforts to harmonize them) than political grandstanding. Import taxes require Congress to get their collective thumbs out of their asses, which is less likely than a third party presidential victory this year.

The Levorg is at the top of my wish list for future cars to replace my Focus. People intensely loved the ‘05-’09 Legacy GT, yet Subaru offers nothing at all like it. The Levorg would fill that void perfectly, even in naturally aspirated form for higher sales volume.

Considering that the RAV4 was a jacked Corolla at first, and might still be to a degree, I can see a Corolla RAV4 in our future.

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Note that the old big block was 350hp GROSS, while a modern 8100 is 340hp NET. When calculated under the net formula, that 350hp might be 280hp. Also note that the old big block was in a 3500lb car with no emissions standards, while a new big block is a 6000lb truck that passes California emissions. They also have…

Because every single one rusted into the ground by 2005.

The slide is too thin. It looks like a S&W Sigma/SD or a Taurus to me.

Either Putin ran out of money, or Ukraine is about to get real violent.

Definitely a better value than a new Virginia-class. Better than a new Kilo? I’m not sure about that.

Actually, .50 BMG is already legal, so you could do that if you’re dumb enough. It’s when you get bigger than .510" bullet diameter (like, a 20mm anti tank rifle), then you run into issues.

And then he brake checked the tailgater, rather than passing the merging vehicle and then moving over. I think he loses the moral high ground at that point.