It’s a jack, an ass, and a half to get anything from Europe to the U.S. legally. The stupid crash regulations alone cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to test, and they make them spend that individually for every single drivetrain combination and every body style. It’s the body structure that should matter, not…

Looking at the full images of the Monterey provided in the links, I have to say I would very much like one. Tweak the headlights to be slightly larger and without the rings, and push the rear wheels back a bit, and it’d be almost perfect.

Particularly interesting is the windows in the C-pillar making a fake wraparound…

These are all fiberglass, so they’re rigid, but not as rigid as finned aluminum. They probably sandbar’d it or something but had enough momentum to keep moving and slide right over it.

This particular carboat seems to have either had the shit beat out of the front fenders and prow of the hull, or it’s been heat warped. Look at the doors. And also look at the water damage on the seats, hinting that the doors no longer provide a seal.

Big indication why this thing’s $6,000.

The hood tilts forward, and that cutout line rides along the top of the headlights and the vents on the side. I think it would’ve worked better if they carried the lines of the headlights/vents all the way down the side to meet with the taillights using a body crease or some ‘50s/60s style trim. You wouldn’t see that…

Would’ve competed with the Mustang with the way they were marketing it. And if they badged it as a Mercury, it would’ve competed with the rebadged Mustang, the Capri. Someone was smart enough to bring the Sierra over, but Detroit wanted to bury the damn thing because there was a prevalent culture of looking down on…

It genuinely doesn’t make sense when you view it as practical and logical. It’s entirely that it’s impractical and illogical that it makes sense. Money’s value is not intrinsic, it’s deterministic. How do you push yourself further away from the lower classes by making valuation worse for them, but almost meaningless…

Sometimes people just wanna make cool shit. I make things all the time that I could easily sell, but don’t and just keep to myself. In our modern society people are often forced to bend and contort their creative need into a marketable product. But to say that nobody would’ve made a viable virtual reality front end…

There’s a Wendover Productions video that explains exactly that, except with art instead.

What in the everloving fuck? I was making higher polygon models when I first started in 3D about a decade ago.

THE FUCKING SUPER NINTENDO HAD HIGHER POLYGON MODELS THAN THIS AND IT COULDN’T EVEN NATIVELY RUN 3D RASTER GRAPHICS.

The front and rear aren’t the usual Ferrari well known brand ugly, so that got me intrigued. But then I got to the side profile. They just completely forgot how to do classical proportions, didn’t they?

That said, 828HP is nothing small. This isn’t supposed to be the halo car, it’s just something to test certain…

Or, they could play it off as “The account was compromised and we have now regained control.” And then started imitating the official Mazda account, but slipping in posts with bit.ly links here and there that lead to the scam. So many more ways to be smart about this.

There is a huge amount of betting going on within stock markets. When you buy a stock you’re betting that the company’s products or services are good enough long term to increase the value, you’re betting that outside factors such as government intervention or market reorganizations aren’t going to be responsible for…

The problem is FMVSS only came into effect in 1967. Any car made before that is now retroactively illegal thanks to this interpretation. Classic car owners should be pissed.

Maine’s explanation for revoking the registrations is that it changed its laws to classify any vehicle not originally designed to meet FMVSS as an off-road vehicle

1st Gear:
The stock market is legal gambling with other people’s money. That’s all it’s ever been. It’s not so much a market as it is a better’s aisle. Though “stock betting aisle” is too many syllables without enough hard consonants to be catchy...

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The French really need some more bitchslaps in order to pay…

They’re literally Bonneville headlights. Straight up. Even for the Chevrolet Lumina APV, though the Silhouette kept going with the original front end until 1997. It’s still better than the previous iteration, though. Before the ‘94 facelift, every division’s exterior looked the same, and they all had “PONTIAC” on the…

They also counter-intuitively shed snow quite easily. A lot of other vans from the time like the Voyager/Caravan and the Windstar would get snow buildup between the sideskirts and the bottom of the body curve, leading to rust. The Trans Sport meanwhile had such a harsh inward curve at the bottom due to the cladding…

The thing is, if you have it readily available beforehand that means you already spent the time digging through the menus to find it. How is that any different from having your wallet already pulled out of your pocket while you’re waiting in line? Either way it’s the same amount of effort, just taking different steps.

Yeah. I’ve seen videos of metal driveline chains on machinery bust holes in walls twenty times their size just because they were spinning at thousands of RPM when they came off. Inertia’s a dangerous thing.