meh. flying has in general become a shitty experience, largely due to the airlines needing to minimize costs and maximize revenue. everything costs extra and the seat spacing gets tighter every year, many airlines do charge for carry ons, and they all charge extra for getting to pick your seat ahead of time. turn…

What is the over/under on permanent disabilities or fatalities?

doesn’t go far enough. surcharges should start at 4,000 lbs and be $1/lb/year

if the cars were max 4 meters long (a full 1.5 meters less than today) and 40 cm narrower (1.6 vs 2 meters) Monaco might be interesting. for reference, the outer tips of the side impact structures are about 1.6 meters tip to tip today, so you wouldn’t lose side impact safety, and there is a solid meter of wasted space…

now we just have to hope it wasn’t another David Carridine or Anthony Bourdain situation...

yes, I’m joking... not really joking.

super easy to work on. with the spitfire I could lift the clamshell hood and stand in the engine bay. the engine could be lifted out of the car single handed with out a hoist.

not one thing on that car that wasn’t strictly necessary.

shit, I missed the question side of this...

so, a ferrari 296 gts with a really ugly body kit?

“for whatever reason”

“let me see your” BANG “oh shit”

got excited about the opportunity to murder a black man and had his finger on the trigger when it should have been on the side of the weapon.

that will buff right out.

for a performance car, every ounce you can take out of the suspension system is valuable in terms of improved suspension performance.

if it ends up being cheaper than steel (or providing some other design advantage that makes the car cheaper to make overall) it will end up supplanting steel.

but steel is stupid cheap and high precision composites are generally not.

first of all, this thing is as far from a competition bike as you can be and still call it a bike.

second, what year was the last time you looked at competition mountain bikes (or road bikes for that matter)? it has been probably 30 years since anybody rode a bike without at least front suspension in any serious XC…

first of all, what is with the rafting helmet on a bicycle?

because. that’s why.

but if Merc instead chose to invest the same money in improving mass market cars, whether that is making them cheaper, more efficient, or more environmentally friendly to manufacture, it would have an impact.

they played the radio messages to both hamilton and russle on the air.  both were told to lift and coast, potential DNF situation.  no mention of a temperature or water leak issue at the time, that was the “reason” Toto gave after the race.

does he even constitution? (1783, not 1776....) 1776 was just a bunch of rich farmers (many of them slave owners) kicking the hornets nest...