Did you photoshop this or actually have some of those letter thingys on hand?

Iran is no less safe to fly over than, say, Germany. Both have the ability to shoot you down, obviously, but are not the sites of current conflicts so there’s almost no chance of your plane being targeted by accident.

They try their best to make that gauge cluster display look expansive. Gauge clusters are not generally expansive. Is it enough to get the job done?

The FRS/BRZ is the rebadge equivalent of those weird lateral passes that are technically allowed in football as long as they don’t advance the ball downfield but are almost never seen for that very reason.

“Breathe, Gillian, Breathe” << me the entire clip.

This term is really great almost-onomatopoeia and English should steal it ASAP.

In order to meet requirements set by our friends at CARB to be some particularly favored class of hemi-semi-demi emissions vehicle BMW had to reduce the gasoline range to less than the electric range for the US market. This was easily accomplished by reducing the size of the gas tank. But instead of making a different…

It’ll be interesting to see if any of these other companies are actually doing anything illegal. There is some range of allowable deviation from the emissions tests built into the law, and as long as you’re not building a “defeat device” that operates with intent only during tests and just generally optimizing your…

This thing is almost brilliant; mounting the whole engine and driven wheel on a pintle and steering it that way saves so many parts that I can understand why someone might try it.

In the Osprey there is a driveshaft that can send power from rotor to rotor, mostly as a safety feature.

I feel like I should be able to see the other wing of this plane from this angle.

The way this is described sounds weirdly like the Zimmerman Telegram.

It can be both a very small relative fraction of atmospheric NOx and a very large amount of pollution. Nitrogen oxides don’t just rise up into the high troposphere and become acid rain (though they do that and that is bad) They have more local effects. NOx interacting with VOCs contributes to ground-level ozone…

This PDF: https://www.princeton.edu/ceps/workingpa… suggests that NoX emissions cause 0.001-0.009 deaths per ton. Estimated emissions from all these vehicles is 950,000, so 950+ deaths and millions in associated health concerns suggests this is bigger, though less spectacular, than the GM ignition key recall and any…

It seems like 2015+ models have urea injection across the whole line so maaaaybe they’ll be easier to bring into compliance and make sellable again. But the inevitable holdup while the fix is developed is going to be costly.

My dad has a similar-vintage 280 diesel and yeah, that is one slow car. Some cars are slow but feel fast because the weak little motor revs and sounds like it’s working hard, but the 2.0 diesel doesn’t rev high, obviously, and is already loud at idle so you don’t really notice a change in tone. Everything about the…

My dad drives a similar vintage import stripper Benz. A tomato-red 280 (NOT turbo) diesel wagon. No tach, just a few dots on the speedometer suggesting where you should shift. All cloth everything. It is slow, it is loud (The distinctive helicopter sound of him coming home from work will always stick with me) but he…

Yeah the Eifel is a really beautiful place; and full of great driving... and other than the Ring, it’s all basically unknown outside of Germany! It’s a shame, really.

possibly the lowest car repair it is possible to make.

Heinlein references “Rolligons” in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and other stories set on the moon. He just describes them as having very big tires, but this seems to be where he got the idea from! These would be good for driving over the loose and rocky surface of the moon, I bet.