Had a 335. It had virtually non stop problem for its first 80k miles. At one point it was brought it it’s knees by a squirrel.

The costs of owning a 3 series is far greater than the asking price. It’s not a deal. It’s never a deal, even if its free.

I don’t know if autonomous vehicles are possible. But I do know that if they are, they will quickly becomes much better than a human driver. Then you’ll have a speed difference.

I welcome the age of autonomous driving pods. I think they would be great, and a huge benefit to mankind. I don’t mind regular driven cars becoming the next horses, owned only by enthusiasts and driven on dedicated tracks.

Ev’s can be charged at home, which is a trick gas cars aren’t capable of.

My take was that a tesla p100 has the equivalent of a 3 gallon gas tank. Which it uses to go 300 miles.

The only time either electric or gas engines stays at full power continuously is on a test stand. Actual driving involves transients.

The efficiency of ICE has been in the 30% range for decades. If you want to make a lot of power, you need to consume a lot of fuel. This doesn’t have much to do with weight. The veyron engine fuel consumption at peak power levels will be the same even if was on a dyno stand.

Right, but that’s not unusual for very high powered cars. I remember reading that the veyron can drain its tank in minutes as well.

I havent watched the whole video but you can see eitehr at 0:10 or around 1:30. the driver isn’t keeping the wheel steady, but rather applying small jerks, as he turns out and back in.

Race car drivers do this cool jerk the wheel straight before turning it back in the middle of a turn. I thought that was understeer correction

Is this an aluminum thing? It looks like the tundra has plastic doors.

I would think that would be a bit easier on tires than on headlights.

the trucks or the company?

1. because pushrods are embarrassing

sort of. oversteer feels cool, understeer feels helpless.

yes

air cooling has a pretty low limit to how much heat it can remove, which limits how much power you can make. so water cooled cars tend to be much more powerful. at the same power level, no there is no difference.

understeer is when you turn the wheel but the car keep going straight. oversteer is when the back swings out.

2. yes, but so slightly that it’s hard to measure.