No.

The corporate IT world is rife with this. Buy a 32-port switch? Too bad you’re only licensed for 24 out of the box. Running SQL on a server with 4x12 compute? Whoops, only got 32-core license for SQL, gotta idle those extra cores. I doubt Tesla even thought this would be an issue.

Nah, not enough rust.

Oh?

I don’t mean performance, I mean architecture. The XBox has been a hypervisor running stripped down Windows OSes on top of equally stripped down compute since the 360, IIRC. I’ve got shit in my data center that is conceptually the same damn thing.

The nicety of (most) of these small bikes is they can do it all, bar a few exceptions like the RC390 which is a little more track-focused, for example.

Look at the Ninjette and its streetfighter (read: naked) sister Z400. I’ve got the Ninja and my wife’s got the Z400. Price is about 5K with ABS (and rebates); both are stellar bikes for the price. I’m getting around 52ish MPG, and I’ve heard it’ll creep up a little bit now that I’ve had the 600 mile service and the…

It gets tricky, though, especially when you weigh adaptations. The Robotech incarnation as the SDF-1 is probably a hair more Class 4, with nods to Class 7 (thanks to the Invid Flower of Life) added later due to Macekre-ing* and expanded upon in the novels. The Macross SDF Macross, though, is more 3, with elements of…

Mysteries of life, my friend. Mysteries of life. . .

“Why does it hurt?” round.

Also, bonus round.

Take your time.

True, the owner theorizing is tongue-planted-firmly-in-cheek but if I took a picture of the dude (I’m referencing)’s car. . . Let’s just say brother from another mother.

If I wanted to go all Sherlock Holmes, you’ll note that one of the exterior pictures is taken in a lot full of older luxury/near-luxury vehicles in…

Exactly, especially as the home consoles’ hardware gets even closer that of a PC, making porting easier. Get your two-ish years of revenue stream on the console, and get a second round of income from the PC crowd with a (relatively) low (development) cost port.

Care to explain to me the financial mathematics of a large number of new parts, which alone are worth more than the car, being firesaled along with this hulk? This is pushing Hoovie levels of car-flipping acumen.

Or the seller’s lying through their teeth and those “new” parts have thirty to forty thou’ on them.

Read the article, and read the original ad. To answer Rob’s question in the title, yes. It deserves a closer look. That first image looks good.

But then there’s a suspicious number of “new” parts on this thing. Everything’s refreshed, good for a few more solid years. . . .  and you’re dumping the car.  There are…

At least that gum he liked is going to come back into style.

I, for one, eagerly await the opportunity to count the impossible number of Bat-hubcaps lost during the protracted chase scene.

This.

I mean, I’ve kicked around getting the Pontiac Arrowhead or the Holden Lion in honor of my beloved yet now deceased GTO, but always come back from the brink. Harley people? It’s fucking weird. Screamin’ eagles all over those fuckers. My neighbor got the “heritage softail” badge tattooed on his forearm. <shrug>

So,…

Ol’ Rambo’s still sucking wind? I remember that douchebag for his one-ish years of running Scott Paper* before he sold the whole works to Kimberly-Clark.

*My father and uncle retired from, and now my brother works at, the Chester, Pa. plant.