The bigger brakes is the same argument as the wheels. In this case, it’s mainly aesthetics to make them bigger. Almost nobody is making repeated high speed stops in an Escalade where the larger brakes would be able to reduce fade. The smaller brakes here probably help to mitigate some of the effects of the heavyweight…

This isn’t just for the 911, but all sports cars, or cars with sporting intentions. Colin Chapman preached the gospel of “adding lightness” for a reason — weight is the enemy of acceleration, braking, turning, etc. You can add electronic trickery, but there is a reason sports cars from the 80s and 90s feel so…

I wouldn’t be too hung up on the use of the word “billet” here. If it’s something that’s going to end up forged, and you don’t know if you’ll be able to accept the properties that come along with a weld at the location you’d want to weld, then you buy a forging large enough to machine the entire part. But it wouldn’t…

milling “7,000 pounds of metal to produce 400 pounds of components” from solid aluminum.

I know many of you may disagree however make me CEO of Harley Davidson and I will make these and other variants to target my generation of what motorcycles are and should be!

Ur right. Porsche loved it when I got a quarter-million people to look at this:

So to mirror what PG was talking about. I just went a read an article on a major website about a non-car related thing. I didn’t fully agree what what was said, but I did see the argument. Then I made a fatal error and went to the comments to see what people thought about that.

I’m going to miss you terribly, Patrick. Thanks for the help you’ve given me.

not really, stainless steel is a horrible material in many ways. Its expensive in all its forms compared to normal steels. The cheap stainless steels still rust, but have better properties for many applications. AKA why your car might have a stainless steel exhaust that has rust on it. The grades that don’t rust tend…

Tesla already owns production lines with all the systems you're claiming they're avoiding. Your argument fails both the smell test and any application of Occam's Razor. 

What’s the estimated offset between steel stressed body and a ladder frame under a more conventional body?

I have to disagree with this part. I think it’s aesthetics over everything else. Yes, there’s some trick engineering choices in there as well, but I think at the core, Musk wanted to ape designs from 35+ years ago and call it “futuristic” and “revolutionary”.

Sonic the Wedgehog.

I think one overlooked issue is that many stainless steel grades rust quite easily in the presence of salt water. That’s most of the northern US for about a third of the year. Stainless steel exhaust systems rust there (although they don’t rust away like carbon steel.)

NASCAR wisely stepped away from the “stock” model once manufacturers started gaming the system to beat the rules with homologation specials, which led to complaints about rules, which led to entire teams and manufacturers boycotting entire seasons. It was a constant power struggle, from Mopar building those mega…

Died unnecessarily in a helicopter crash, taking his kid, friend, and friends' kid with him, 'because racecar'

As an Indian living abroad, let me give my $0.02.

The greatest trick that Devel ever pulled was convincing the world they exist

Why? There have been a total of seven fatalities since the races’ inception almost 100 years ago. Only 2 of those have been in cars. And of those 2 car fatalities only one was in the last 95 years.

Looks are subjective, dumbass.