You’ve posted this picture before and for some reason I didn’t realize that was you, I thought it was Noel Gallagher.
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I don’t care about cars really one way or the other but this is indeed a superior piece of design.
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I was about 10 years ahead.
I drove Spitfires, but my heart belonged to the TR6.
When you floored it, the fuel pump would drown out the noise of the exhaust.
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I continue to have marital relations with a gymnast. I’m a lucky man.
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I said maaaaaaaaaaaaaybeeeeeeee.
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I’m biased, but fuck me the Spitfire was such a pretty car. Particularly the Mk III and Mk IV.
ETA: I swapped out the video for a better one. The Mk IV is what I owned.
White tube socks and leather loafers is a timeless look, let’s face it.
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They weren’t loafers; they were lace-ups. The laces were up the side, though, because fashion.
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As they say in Hollywood: show, don’t tell.
This is how it was done (except for the part where he punches it and nearly loses the back end and the incessant hand-crossing).
Also, every one of these I see with a boot lid rack, the rack is put on backwards. The lip goes at the front, big guy.
Well he isn’t casting a shadow.
Maybe that’s who the song is about.
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In high school, I worked at a Gulf service station with a cracker jack mechanic. We got a project to put a high performance Chevy small block V8 into a Triumph Stag. The Stag had a tiny POS V8 that we pulled out a scrapped. We put a narrowed Corvette rear end and a 4 speed transmission. It needed a hood scoop to fit the engine.
When we were done, we gave the owner detailed instructions on breaking in his new engine. He ignored them and blew the rings running it way past the red line on day one. For that one day, though, it was really fast.
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Swapping out the V8 in a Stag was a cottage industry in the UK. The standard engine suffered from the timing belt going off causing all sorts of problems up to and including R.U.D.
If you kept on top of the timing belt - like once a month if you drove it daily - the engine was otherwise decent.
If the Chevy V8 is what they used to put in the Rover - which was definitely a version of a U.S. made engine - then that was the swap out of choice.
The Triumph Stag was the poster child for the tribulations of Triumph - and the British auto industry more broadly at that time - in that is was a great concept and perfectly executed with the exception of a single fatal flaw about which they just decided “fuck it!”
[Note: the “Rover” V8 was a Buick-derived unit.]
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I am very happy still not owning a car. If I did decide to buy a car, it would almost certainly be a used EV of some description. I’ll never buy a new car or an ICE car ever again.
And then…
In Sarah’s considered, expert, automotive opinion: “this thing fucking rips!”
Also, Audi interiors remain undefeated.
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This is pretty extreme, but I love the idea of cars not having an expensive infotainment system that is really only good for being a portal for your phone. Having an iPad stuck on the dash, which can work off your phone’s hotspot, is about a tenth of the cost and way better.
mUsK Is a gEnIuS.
Aug 25 (Reuters) - Billionaire Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab rejected a $60 million settlement proposal in a lawsuit over the 2019 fatal crash of an Autopilot-equipped Model S before a jury this month awarded a $243 million verdict in the case.
The floodgates have opened. A judge recently certified a class action against Tesla and Musk for lying about self-driving. This has been a long time coming; before now Tesla had been successful in getting classes de-certified (?) and then fending off the individual suits.
The robochickens are coming home to roost, and “Autopilot” is driving.
The world is embracing renewable energy. Many third world countries are going directly to solar and wind by passing fossil fuels and without collecting 200 tonnes of carbon emissions.
Same thing happened when cell phones first became a thing. Third world countries got to skip the landline phase of communications.
Thanks mostly to China’s efforts in the development of panel technology, solar is now the cheapest form of energy on the planet. Combined with their leaps forward in battery technology, China has basically won the future when it comes to energy.
China added more renewable energy generation than the rest of the world combined, leading to a 2% drop in its use of fossil fuels in the first half of the year compared with the same months in 2024, Ember found.
It’s bad for the US economy when China stops buying our soy beans; imagine how devastating it will be when they stop buying oil.
Fun Fact: The US increased coal generation by 17% in the first half of this year. Yes, coal.
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This is cool, especially if it can ever be scaled up. That it can use treated wastewater is huge.
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