Stumpy

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  1. Scarlett Johanssen nailed her to the wall in the post SOTU sendup. Very well done indeed.
  2. Fixed it for you. Just about any motorbike you can think of can run sub 12. Some very cheap ones can run sub 10. Car drivers usually can't really conceive just how fast bikes are. Incidentally M4s and M5s can run sub 12 as well - i wouldn't group them in the rare/very expensive category - not cheap though, sure.
  3. To paraphrase Monty python, that just proves it must be true!
  4. I've just put a new map on my mx5 (miata) engine in my lotus 7 replica that has liberated about 25HP. Crazy how easy it is, and on a car weighing less than half a tonne, that makes quite a difference
  5. She is the best example of living rent free in their heads - it would be funny if it wasn't so weird.
  6. Huh thats weird. Althogh I have been trying to work out how I could fit a tesla motor in the rear and the batteries under the hood...
  7. Similar - not a caterham though, they are waaaay too expensive for a toy. This is much more self build by a company called MK - its a miata 1.8 engine and running gear running about 160bhp on an aftermarket ECU.
  8. I think I've said it before - I think cars are going to be like watches eventually. The every day ones will be cheap, capable, and electric (quartz casio equivalent) And the expensive ones for collectors will be objectively worse in almost every way but have more emotion associated. I have built this thing - its all sorts of fun but my next proper everyday car will be electric.
  9. I mute the trolls so I'm not responding to brent directly, but the "Equivalent ICE vehicle" thing is an interesting one. My right hand man at work has an EV. Its a cheap family hatchback that does 0-60 faster than most supercars. There isn't an equivalent ICE car. For similar money, most ICE cars 0-60 times are measured in days.
  10. Stumpy

    Ukraine

    Yeah no I get that - but I'm not seeing the passion (from the other side of the pond admittedly) in the US electorate to KEEP trump out, as much as there was to get him out the first time round. For most of the western world, that's a bit of a worry. I hope I'm wrong on that and D turnout will be good.
  11. Stumpy

    Ukraine

    The point is - if this is who turns out for the election because they care the most and are most riled up, Trump is gonna win. I REALLY hope for the US sake, thats not the case.
  12. Wow. R's really got their asses handed to them in that hearing. Although I'm sure the MAGAs probably see it the other way round.
  13. As an average, that seems quite significant?!
  14. Very true. Man it’s fast though, and effortless. I’ve built my own lotus 7 replica with plenty of power that’s as fast as anything else (within reason, multi million dollar hypercars aside) burning dinosaur juice, and this blows it into the weeds without making any fuss. I think I’ll pass this time round, frankly just don’t need it and certainly don’t need the servicing costs.
  15. Speaking of EVs - I've just been offered a really good deal on a taycan wagon by a friend. Sorely tempted....
  16. Joe Rogan seems to gain some measure of credibility from the things he DOES know about that then seems to carry over into the other BS he covers. I have never really understood the appeal
  17. Except the "reduce" part of that is kinda being ignored...
  18. Oh no he's right - I definitely believe in socialism. It definitely exists.
  19. He'll probably get a room at the four seasons.
  20. Hate to make you feel old - but I was here 22 years ago, and I wasn't early to the party I remember when you were still a duck.
  21. I know - its kinda cute. Looks like they need to get a room.
  22. This has been my suspicion for a while. No one is THAT dumb.