tmnelson
Doctor Memory
tmnelson

Oh hell yes. There’s going to be an entirely new class of insurance scams going on as soon as we get decent market penetration of fully-autonomous or emergency-override technology. All it takes is for somebody to notice that under condition A, vehicles from manufacturer X perform maneuver T, and then there’ll be an

Were the Nagas hunted to extinction?

Or if your toddler throws the fob out the window.

Or at least Darwin’s.

Damnit, atomic doorstops and jet packs were the future I was promised! Not this smart phones and rap music shit. Who do I see about turning this thing around so we can take another pass at it?

Is that a Pacer’s final form?

Without doing a damn thing except piss away 25% of the electricity you use due to charging inefficiency. When you’re looking at maybe two cents to charge your phone it’s no big deal, but when you’re paying several dollars a night to charge your car, it’ll add up quickly.

I’ve always harbored a suspicion that the RX-7 was Mazda’s reaction to the 924/944. Unfortunately, the second-gen came across as bloated instead of muscular like the 944.

Fellow ex-76 Firebird owner here. Can confirm the handling wasn’t too bad (with 225/50 Comp T/As), and mine ran like a champ after I replaced the stock 350 with the 400 out of a ‘73 Catalina. The interior was crap, though, and those long doors dragged and scraped on the sidewalk unless you parked a good three feet

And it probably redlined at 1800RPM. Not exactly a tractable beast.