This needs to be COTD, because I really want to see if $kay can find a Seuss-themed ”car&bikini” shot!

Oh, the places you’ll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are races to be won. And the magical things you can do with that car will make you the winning-est winner of all. Fame! You’ll be as famous as famous can be, with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.

Except when they don’t.…

Here we go again.

Just watch. That privateer team is going to absolutely sweep Toyota. And Nissan is gong to bring back the deltawing. Toyota is going lose

Wow. just wow. So pointy. So edgey. I believe that it was created from designed from a blank sheet of paper, just that it was crumpled up in a pocket somewhere, so it ended up all creased. An no matter how ghastly that interior cockpit it, the little boy in me might have let out an audible squeak at the look of that…

Yeah I’ve been replaying some shitty behavior in my 20s in my mind. I was pushy at times. I never ignored a hard no, but I did try to get people to change minds, stuff like that. I feel a little sick thinking about it, and I wish I knew then what I know now.

The first thing the reporter said got me going.

Fucking this. If i lived in a neighborhood where there was a Ferrari racing up and down the street at full throttle every day I’d be happy. Instead I get kids in 20-year-old lowered Civics and Born-To-Be-Mild Harley riders.

I don’t mind loud car noises, I mind shitty loud car noises. High performance engines sound nice, regardless of what kind of engine. Poorly built engines and exhaust systems are a nuisance.

Tecccchnically I should have said “when the speed is least” or “when the velocity is closest to zero.”

Because “when velocity is least” could be when the car is in reverse depending on the coordinate system.

^This clarification is only going to matter to that ONE enginerd out there who’s got too much time on his/her…

Well in terms of military equipment, it’s paid for, it’s otherwise going to surplus to at best be sold to some third world shit hole and likely end up in the hands of people actually killing rather than policing. Plus civilian vehicles aren’t really designed for it, even a modified civilian vehicle is easily destroyed…

It makes sense... Think about it:

I love how people think cops are going to be blowing random people away with turreted weapons and grenade launchers as a result of all this. And are we really opposed to law enforcement having armor of any kind? ....Really!?

Well our options are to use what we already have (war surplus) or spend more money buying less capable, less safe equipment so that people like yourself feel “safer”.

“while the Shield itself might not come rolling down US streets anytime soon, stuff designed to dish out even more damage might.”

Somewhere along the way we all forgot that F1 was (and remains) extraordinarily dangerous. 1994 San Marino happened and suddenly everyone started the handwringing. Oh, how could this have happened!, they said. It’s racing, that’s how.

I get what you’re saying here, but it’s a slippery slope. This primes a mindset that leads to everyone dressing like a slob and being inconsiderate to everyone else because “Well they don’t know who I am and I’ll never see them again, so why even try?” I know you’re not saying that it’s okay to be rude, but sometimes…

There’s a crossover where nice and comfortable meet, I aim for that. Then again, I’d rather be naked than seen in public wearing sweatpants.

yeah but you are in public - shouldn’t there be a minimum decorum level? if I dressed in gym clothes I would be embarrassed in this setting...and in turn I find all the slobs dressed like this to be embarrassing and gross. just my opinion but I can’t help it.

With that color on his McLaren, I bet he’s a real Highway Star.