But the Fiat is Lupin’s car...

I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time in this game. By my estimation over a thousand hours, and I’m probably undershooting it without any exaggeration. I speedrun it at least once a year. I’ve done super clean no boost runs on stream, where I don’t equip nitrous to the car, I never use the slow motion, and if I touch…

Them’s rookie numbers. I have 50 hours in my least played racing game Flatout: Ultimate Carnage alone, and that’s *after* Steam reset the numbers once Games For Windows Live completely shut down. That’s not counting my time playing Flatout 2, which UC is an update of, or Flatout: Head On, which is Flatout 2 for PSP.

Hel…

They’re not stripped down. If they were they’d be bare chassis’. These things still have the suspension, the drivetrains, and even the damn seats still covered in plastic. They removed the body panels since those are FRP and plastic and would be easiest to dispose of, and are sending the rest of the cars to be cubed.

Don’t be so down on the Cavalier. They’re pretty robust considering they’re like 50% plastic.
Direct that negativity to the horrible fucking Citation instead. Those damn things actually rusted inside the enclosed rail cars that carried them west.

If there is that person is my hero. No car should be forgotten in the annals of history. No matter how fucked up they were, no matter how much of a failure, no matter how bland, they all contributed something and all are engineering marvels. That includes everything from the technical masterpieces like the…

There’s Route A and Route B basically. If you take Route B accidentally, you get punished. But the thing is, Route B is mislabeled as Route A in the notes, because both start from the same fork, but Route B turns left shortly after the fork. They just didn’t label that Route B does not split from Route A exactly at…

People aren’t buying these in the numbers they were during the ‘80s and early ‘90s. They keep driving up the cost and forcing in more features to extract more money out of a shrinking customer base.

Sea-Doo also has some absolutely fucking nuts jetskis. The RXT-X is like twenty grand, also has 300HP, has a seven…

This problem with the population not being big enough or capable enough in terms of revenue versus cost for public services is a very good case study. The U.S. is starting to suffer from the declining working age population problem Japan has had for two decades now. And our public infrastructure’s not even a tenth as…

Yep. If the traffic leading towards Dallas and Houston doesn’t cause a pileup, then merging with the horribly confusing road interchanges will.

This isn’t viable anymore for consoles. At the tail end of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360's life, lots of games started requiring constant connections to a verification server. These servers get shut down all the time. Sometimes it’s as little as a year after release, but most of them never last past five years. A…

Which all just goes to prove how inefficient the bureaucracy of the MTA is and how much it needs to be organized and pared down. New York City is huge. Ridiculously so. But there should still be records of things like equipment they have on hand and the assignments for that equipment.

Oh god no. These things are unique freakish monsters. They’re the front half of the Tahoe and part of the frame of one, but with the engine of a Express HD 3500 pulling and the ass end of a Silverado 2500 underpinning it all. Paired up with Pontiac/Buick interior mechanicals for things like the gauges and switchgear.

Even hairspray gets counterfeited in Russia. Most famously the sketchy brand that’s translated into English as “Matiss.” Up until just a few years ago they used to replace the alcohol in the hairspray with straight undiluted methanol because it was cheaper. Lots of people lost their eyesight or caught on fire because…

Yep. Volkswagen was bouncing rumours of a smaller W16 for production after the Bentley Hunaudieres concept was unveiled, but the big 8.0L one in the concept made it to production instead as the Veyron’s engine. There was also a 5.3L W12 that was made for the W12 Syncro Concept, but that never made it to production…

I see them all over the place. My local Chrysler RAM Jeep dealership was regularly sold out of them. They’re not bad cars, and I’ve actually advocated for people to get one. They make a lot more sense and in actual costs go for way less than the car they were born from, the Fiat 500L.

I think the problem is that the…

Jim Justice doesn’t own Joe Manchin. Manchin competes with Justice. Justice has his hands in the coal mines and iron works in the southern part of the state, while Manchin has his hands in things like the Chemours Washington Works plant and the Ashton Chemical Charleston Complex. Manchin’s a fucking idiot who thought…

Scary how? Scary as in we’ll see a repeat of Cash 4 Clunkers that’ll fuck the poor again? Or scary as in dealerships will have increased control over all supply, new and used?

I once saw the aftermath picture of a rubber dog toy that had smashed through a brick wall during an F3. Nothing else hit the wall. The only thing that made the huge hole was the dog toy and the pressure difference that came after the opening was made.