Better yet, buy a beater that’s beginning to appreciate (e.g. W123 Mercedes, unmodified Golf Mk2 GTI, 70's Japanese cars, Volvo 240 wagon) and take good care of it, then turn around and sell it for profit in a few year’s time!

You could do it yourself for under that with a junkyard drivetrain and an old Series III or 90/110 in need of some work. One of the guys in my province’s Land Rover club did the swap by himself in his garage for his LWB Series III, using an old clapped-out V8 S10 as a donor. Last I heard it worked out great and he’s…

I beg to differ:

Not Sky News, apparently:

Only in the sense that they’re both offbeat classic sports cars I fantasize about owning. That was meant a personal cost consideration (i.e. I could have another one of my dream classics for much less), not a suggestion that the two are equivalent or interchangeable in any way.

The price bit steep, sure (could have a Datsun Roadster for 1/3 the price), but I’ve wanted one of these ever since first playing Rally Trophy as a kid. NP.

You really think this thing is intended to complete in the same segment as a giant 50k USD truck?

There you go.

Looks like it’s been done, using an FC or modified FD RX7 manual transmission. Can’t find any guides or build threads, but here’s a dimply-lit interior picture of one with a 5-speed swap (only one I could find):

New languages get increasingly harder to learn after age 7, levelling off around 20 at a far greater difficulty than before, especially when the languages are drastically different in sounds used and linguistic structure than your first language (e.g. Chinese, Korean). Even with decades of practice most adults won’t…

Haven’t you ever had the experience of driving a car for the first time and finding the feel of it weird and off-putting since it’s far different from you’re used to, but adjusting to it after a few days of driving it? This is my concern with relying on ‘ride-and-drives’ as a way of measuring the competition, along…

That would remove a significant incentive for people to buy electric vehicles, so yeah. Such a tax would make sense to instate once electric cars are common enough that removing that incentive won’t do significant damage to adoption rates, but not before.

Yeah, really. My 88’ 240 actually has a worse electrics track record than both my dad’s Lucas-equipped british cars combined: broken heated seats, failing fuel pump relay, intermittent interior/instrument lights (still to be fixed), bad MAF sensor (took forever to diagnose since the car is pre-ODB), intermittent…

Biebs was making awful music and joking about lynching black people long before Trudeau Jr. was in the Canadian public sphere. His douchebaggery is no one’s but his own.

It was his dad’s, he inherited it.

Well, the rate is ~5% for males and ~1% for females so it’s more like 7.6 million in the U.S., but you’re right that most aren’t criminals (not ones that get caught, anyway). I thought the overall population rates were lower than they actually are and overestimated the size of the prison population, guess I should…

Yes, definitely true (although science isn’t what I’d typically call “high risk, low empathy” but that might just be my field). I’d say “many” psychopaths rather than most though, as the rate of anti-social personality disorder (clinical term for psychopathy) is several times higher in incarcerated criminals then in…

Heh, you’re not far off. People with Anti-Social Personality Disorder (clinical term for psychopathy) who don’t end up as criminals tend to be very successful in business and finance due to their talent for manipulation and lack of ethical compass. One study I remember put an ad in the paper listing the symptoms of…

Sadly I doubt that, the kid’s behaviour/history is classic psychopath. Psychopaths have a much harder time experiencing emotional arousal and empathy than normal people do, so they often end up doing extremely risky antisocial stuff like this as a result just to feel something. Not that you can diagnose anyone of…

Not the first guy to hack an iPhone. The OG jailbreak developers were the iPhone Dev Team back in 2007, geohot only came onto the scene with the 3GS jailbreak in 2009, a good 2 years after the original jailbreak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailb…