As we’ve seen with VAGs behavior towards suppliers in the last few months, they could’ve threatened to buy a majority stake in Bosch to make it happen on company orders rather than client specifications.

The BMW took the whole hit on the drivers side and stopped the car almost immediately. The Merc that hit it did so with much more of its overall frontal area and spun off down the road dissipating that energy over a much longer time frame.

Takata airbag?

Stout little thing! Didn’t look like a single window so much as cracked. body damage seemed minimal for the bounce it took too. Of course with the airbag deployment, insurance will likely total it out, and considering the video evidence of the incident, will likely not pay much, if any at all.

That is not the rear of the plane. To the left; nose landing gear. To the right; forward edge of the wing root transition.

Build what you like! My project is a ‘73 Plymouth Valiant, 4-door with a slant-6. Yes, I’m nuts too.

If your phone is in your pocket, console or glove box, you're automatically a better driver than an ever growing percentage

The Oregon Trail generation… old enough to use a card catalogue, properly write a formal letter and hand-address an envelope but also grew up with the rise of personal computers and the internet. We also played Oregon Trail on Apple IIs in grade school.

There’s a 300C rolling around here with a Magnum front clip that’s been very nicely transplanted.

My thoughts exactly. When the landing is nothing more than a single-line mention in the middle of the article, it’s becoming pretty routine! Definitely looking forward to seeing some of these recovered stages fly again.

Saying anybody is the “next somebody” is an incredible disservice to that person. A better way to phrase it–if you’re stuck on comparing to other olympic athletes, and for those of us who don’t follow gymnastics, would be to say that the spread in ability between Simone and her nearest competitor is something like the…

I think this in relation to “fast charging”, like Tesla’s Superchargers rather than your “normal” charging.

The Petrolicious/Top Gear style has its place–I hear you on being kinda bored with it. This is a really fun way to show off Formula D. I don’t think everything should be done this way, but in appropriate doses, it’s refreshing.

From your link, tank and sprayer assembly in this plane was transplanted from the 2nd Evergreen tanker.

Dirt track crews are among the fastest you’ll see. Part of that reaction time has to do with red flagging the race as soon as a car turns over. This lets the crews get to the scene without having to dodge traffic.

There had to have been some teamwork involved to get past the park-brake interlock. Also, I never leave a vehicle without setting the brake.

(most?) Modern ejection seats are zero-zero capable; zero speed, zero altitude, but they’d never fit in an F1 car. The posture is all wrong for starters.

I believe it was Jim Glickenhaus who said, “Not driving your car to preserve its resale value is like not having sex with your girlfriend to save her for the next guy.”

Maybe the homolgation rules need to change in order to keep a spending war in check. Require the race car to be built/sourced from a production line with a minimum run of say...5,000 copies? (Like Porsche does with the 911)

Less than a day to get used to the shifter...which is a day too long, really. Fancy electronic shift levers are a solution in search of a problem. When I traded my Impala for a Ranger, the only adjustment was where to reach (console vs. column ATs)