American here who grew up spending every Friday at the dirt track from May - Sept from age 2 to age 16. I have no fucking idea. I can’t even watch it any more because in an effort to make “winning races” matter more what they have really done is make “finishing races” not matter at all. So drivers are just constantly…

NASCAR is a joke and has been for years

The readership hates Trump, so the author takes liberties positioning this as a Trump failure. It’s nice to see some folks being logical, despite the hatred. The guy’s a d-bag, but your take was the right one.

Trump didn’t plan this raid, you know. Neither did Obama.

Graflex hit it right on the money. One thing I would add, though, in regards to small cars. A lot of the passenger compartment “cages” are now being designed to be more like eggs than before which is why you’ll probably notice a pretty similar design between most small cars. The design of an egg is absolutely…

“A 2003 paper I found from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine seems to indicate that China has high standards for fuel quality and 95-octane gas available at pumps, so Chinese Raptor owners should be able to get as much power out of their turbocharged engines as possible.”

Mostly wizzardry. And by that, I really mean mechanical engineering.
A lot of it is crumple zones. The force of an impact has two factors - speed and time. Flop over backwards on to your bed, and the springs in your mattress slow you down gradually. The impact happens over a few milliseconds. Flop over backwards onto…

All those things (steel can be so strong now that it causes problems for the emergency services trying to extract casualties) plus computer simulation of crash performance and the need for five star NCAP ratings (unless you’re Ford obviously!) .

Computer modelling is pretty neat. I drove around in a mid-90s civic for a hot minute. The car was fun, but hoo boy I was aware that my face was the secondary crumple zone.

That Rover 100 test caused something of a scandal for the company. The car was designed in the late ‘70s and launched as the Austin MiniMetro, then facelifted a few times.

Not bad. I would go all “Industrial Revolution” historic on the town and roll coal.

In reality, when you factor in maintenance costs, the thieves are estimated to have lost about $200k.

Can’t they just follow the trail of oil drips to track them down and apprehend the evil-doers?

Ok, so what do you suggest we do? Allow China to continue its expansion into the S. China Sea, build up military bases on these islands, asert it’s dominance in the area completely, control trade, and then let them fuck us for the next 100 years because we want everyone to play nice?

What I don’t get about this commentary is the constant narrative the war with China will be bad and the U.S. shouldn’t antagonize them, but war with Russia will be good and the U.S. should defintely stand up to them because of Ukraine and the Baltics. How does that work? Both conflicts would be a disaster.

Stef,

You really sailed past the mark on this one. The conclusions you draw show you’ve not really been listening. That’s disappointing.

Trump is concerned about current manufacturing leaving the US. Be it a Focus that was made in Michigan or an air conditioner made in Indiana. He’s not worried about Porsches made in…

First Gear - This isn’t some high dollar limited run car meant for the rich and famous. It’s a great car that’s attainable to many and Ford chose to unveil to the true public who will buy the car - good to them. I feel no symptom for the people (or their children) who didn’t see it at the private pre-screening. Nor do…

Am I the only one surprised Nigeria has fighter jets?

Thank you for doing the author’s job for him.

There’s nothing inherently rugged about a removable roof. Old Broncos may have had them, but they were rarely removed and were (except in the very early ones) not removable over the driver.