I sincerely hope this succeeds, but there is no possible justification for the continuation of this program once Starship gets operational. $4B+ per launch on top of the $26B spent on development of something that was supposed to be the “cheap, legacy based” solution, for MTO mass capabilities roughly the same as…

Anything with a Fart Can.

combining the best features of Fiat (Fix It Again, Tony) and Dodge (Dude, Only Dumbasses Get ‘Em)

what is the over under on first trip back to the dealer because it is falling apart?

so, they did away with any production requirement for these, hence they are just Group C/LMP1/Daytona Prototypes but with slightly tweaked rules?

you can actually submit a comment directly at the link in the article.

besides the ever shrinking seat pitch (the airline term for the distance each row is allotted) which used to be 36-38" back in the day and now is often 28-30", many airlines have chosen to put power and computing bricks for the in flight entertainment systems in the area under the seat where your feet or carry on are…

but what kind of rocks are in the heads of all the drivers that makes it “geologically” diverse?

sure, but what has that got to do with electric only, 20mph or slower golf carts??

those gators are a lot more like a gas powered side by side, can go 40 and have gas engines with bad emissions.

the buggy whip makers union would like a word.

they are banking on nostalgia for a car that, as a car, sucked ass.

it was slow, handled poorly, was not particularly attractive compared to contemporary cars of the same general form and was badly made. read the reviews at the time. its chassis was technically interesting structurally but otherwise the car was crap.

if…

I would like to see all inner cities designated “electric golf cart, scooter & bicycle only” zones. the largest thing allowed ought to be about the same as the flatbed ones they use to haul football players off the field.

20 mph max speed, pedestrian deaths would plummet. traffic congestion would plummet. no horns, no…

electric golf carts are fine.  most use trivially recyclable lead acid batteries, the carts themselves are practically indestructable.

paid 3.84 at the local mobil last week in NH. cheapest station in the area by ~5 cents at the moment. everyone else is 3.89-4.09.

to be fair, the cali high speed rail plan was/is garbage. the train starts way out from the center of the city, takes a loop through bumfuck nowhere and required massive eminent domain grabs, buying land from speculators, environmental reviews, noise challenges etc. it also takes far too long to get from LA to SF and…

I used to see subies that were more rust than car driving until there was nothing left but the power train.  great cheap cars for the mountain country, but not the driving force behind mainstreaming AWD.

Gotta be the Audi Quattro. it is singlehandedly responsible for every freaking car made today being an FWD based AWD car.

how is a rusted out firewall that is 90% patch material different from just cutting out the vin tag and 2" of sheet metal around it?

he did the structure right, but then painted it black and did a bunch of customizations, like those god awful headlights, lowering and custom wheels.

here is a photo from when it was auctioned by the government after being seized from the owner at the time.

obviously you have never watched “Graveyard Carz” where the guy finds a (literal) pile of rust with a VIN tag and a matching engine block, cuts out the VIN tag and block, builds an entirely new car from NOS & repro parts and a donor chassis, has the block acid dipped and rebuilt, spot welds in the VIN tag and then…

I don’t really have a problem with this but I wish he’d picked one of the uglier ones.