Remember that the boiling point of water is not 100 deg C when the pressure changes. I’ve got stuff going on right now where I have to consider 300 deg C liquid water.

Depends on who wins. In one case, I would think a Studebaker.

What an interesting question. Let’s take two extremes on heat. One is to have the tire full of water. This would add way too much weight and pressure control would be impossible, but it would turn the tire into a giant heatsink to removed brake and tire temperatures for quite a while.

The real place to suck heat is in boiling. But that’s complex. Water expands a LOT when it starts to boil and that would raise the pressure of the tire as well. There’s also a danger of a tire explosion.

Yes, but the real heat suckeris the latent heat. When the tire gets to the saturation temperature, it takes 1000 BTU/lb (approximately) to take it from water to steam and only 1 BTU/lb to take water up 1 deg F. As it does go to steam, the water will expand dramatically and drive up the pressure, which raises the…

I can’t figure out why you would want water inside your tire. The entire deal with nitrogen filled tires is to get rid of the humidity and thus have a more predictable pressure at temperature.

For nitrogen, it would be 0%, unless you intentionally injected water into it. The process to make it removes any humidity.

I remember that.  There was this story about how someone heard a giant bang and found a frozen body had impacted their road.   Lots  of investigation later and it was a stowaway that had died in the wheel well (crushed and then frozen) that fell out when the plane lowered the landing gear.   But this was quite a…

It’s just this little guy. He’s small so hard to spot.

Elio. They are STILL trying to round up orders for their cars. Price is now $14,900, it’s supposed to go 110 mph and go 3 days without charging.

Car companies have forgotten the lesson that GM taught the world in the 1950s.

You can’t see the exterior when you are inside of it.

“That’s not a jeep, it’s not nearly rusty enough”

Reminds me of this. Was there a wasp’s nest in the design studio?

Although this isn’t there, I am not that concerned about battery prices on older EVs.

Hell put a Toyota engine in it, likely still has the proper mounts.

Yeah, flood damaged up to around 1990, not a major concern, change the fluids and have the carpet cleaned. 1990-2000. Varies. I test drove a Windstar that was flood damaged and the wipers came on when you hit a bump and the dash looked like Star Trek with warning lights coming on and off randomly.

Oh yeah. With the car market being so high, it’s hard to find cheap enough to fill the janky Buy Here/Pay Here Lot a couple neighborhoods over that they won’t admit they own.

More like “I’m Dollar Tree Shaq, because I can’t hit a free throw either.”  Other than race, height, athletic ability, and wealth, we are basically the same.

First off that is an Olds. Second off, it is impossible to describe how crappy the vehicles were between a Second Gen Chevelle and a Bolt. I don’t think consumers abandoned fun wagons, until after they broke down for the 18th time on a 50 mile trip home from the dealership near a Honda dealership.