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    • CB

      RM requests cheaper bridge, gets cheaper bridge that fell down hours after being finished
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      Restomod LR Defender with a Mustang engine being auctioned off? Neat!
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      the Q40 Defender gets the 2.3-litre turbocharged Ford EcoBoost engine from the four-pot Mustang.

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    • So this is really weird...
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      facw

      @ForSweden The little additional information trickling out ties these guys to Pakistan and Iran, and I wouldn't put it past either to be running an incompetently brazen intelligence operation.

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      Hour rule: Expedition team loses F-150 to ice, doesn't get eaten by polar bears
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    • GM to get $824 Million from Michigan for new EV center
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      @fintail yes, I remember in the 90s when GM threatened to move building the caprice to Texas. Michigan threw all kinds of money at GM and they ended up moving the Caprice to texas anyways

    • Isn't this How Planet Of The Apes Started?
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      @tophercrowder You're right, the apes are what triggered Sandra Bullock to enter rehab

    • I think Cadillac has a Celeb to sell it's big, new, and fast SUV
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      Hike

      @tophercrowder can't imagine screwing up and causing a crash and out of the cars walks The Terminator lol

    • If You Don't Hear From Me Again, The Zombie Uprising Has Begun...
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      sn4cktimes

      @nth256 yeah, he was incredibly angsty!

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      Dodge Jailbreak
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      HammerheadFistpunch

      @wasgtithengtothennovathengtinowa4 it's glorious

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      Tesla delivering cars without USB ports, not alerting all customers of this
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      Urambo Tauro

      @mr-ontop https://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-y-owners-have-found-home-depot-shit-used-to-1844999285

    • 10 car features people want most (and 7 they want least)
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      pip bip

      @kingt what i want in a car? manual windows, manual trans and an am/fm radio.

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      Neat Nonsense - Porsche's "Soundtrack My Life" algorithm generated music for your driving
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      @cb
      I've always imagined Tommy Tykwer's 'Run,Lola, Run' soundtrack would be a suitable Porsche driving soundtrack...

    • Oww My Brain
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      BicycleBuck

      @davesaddiction said in Oww My Brain:

      Work smarter, not harder!

      Absolutely!

    • The saltiness about the Yamaha R7
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      @thejwt Don't forget the change in the update cycle. From 2004 - 2009, 600cc and 1000cc sportbikes were getting major updates every other year. From 2009-2020, the R6 had one minor update. The ZX6 had two. The GSXR and CBR600 are the same bike.

      The 1000cc class has received more updates, but they're still on a 5 or 6 year cycle instead of every other year.

      Whenever there are rapid update cycles, there is incentive to buy new stuff. When it's 10 years later and the only difference is that the new model has LED headlights, the engine is neutered right when you get to the fun part of the RPM range (an ECU flash will fix) and there is now a 20lb brick in the exhaust (that will just get removed immediately) there's much less incentive to buy a new bike.

    • Brad KESELOWSKI, owns this team!
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      PatBateman

      @forsweden Isn't that the French guy from Talladega Nights?

      ETA: SHIT someone else made that joke before me.

    • SUBMISS/SUBSINK
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      @ttyymmnn said in SUBMISS/SUBSINK:

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      I'm not necessarily claustrophobic, but I do have an intense fear of drowning, and I would think that dying in a sinking submarine would be the absolute worst.

      I hope they're okay.

      I hope they’re okay as well. But I’ve got some weird connection to the ocean so death by drowning seems a nice way to go for me. Maybe not getting compressed in a metal tube but lost my board and ran out of steam getting back to shore - not so bad. Just lay back and inhale the water. My wife says I’m weird so...

    • DMX (1970-2021)
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      Snuze

      @taylor-martin TF?

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      Yahoo Answers Shutting Down
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      @chariotoflove said in Yahoo Answers Shutting Down:

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      Crap, you mean now I have to go back to climbing that mountain to get my answers from the Oracle?

      Dammit.

      No, no, just go to Ask Jeeves and . . . oh.

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      VW upping the ante on subscription based cars with Project Trinity
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      WhoIsTheLeader

      @sony1492 Yeah but you're still paying for the initial installation. And if somehow it isn't illegal to activate these features without the company's approval you'll get picked out of future updates. This just really sucks.

    • New Ducati Monster
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      AestheticsInMotion

      @nermal said in New Ducati Monster:

      @exage03040 said in New Ducati Monster:

      It's gone way more Duke and Street Triple than Thruxton and R9T.

      The problem isn't so much that it looks like the wrong KTM or Triumph. More importantly, it doesn't look like a Monster.

      You could switch the badges on it and nobody would be able to tell the difference.

      If you threw Yamaha tuning forks on it and told me it was the new MT09 I'd believe you

    • Why?
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      @classicdatsundebate

      Both good choices.

      Perhaps I would have been better to frame this and state my case as "What colour do you associate Lamborghini with?" I highly doubt anyone would say Verde Gea. So I doubt random Joe driving past this Ducati even in the same direction would ever pick it out being an associated special edition.

      It's really random when Lambo sponsored Pramac Ducati that raced this year in this livery. You can see the insignia below the seat and the crest at the back of the tail.
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      Just for shits and gigs, I'd rather it looked like this in green...

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    • 2021 BMW S1000R
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      fintail

      @exage03040 I see so few on the road, I haven't kept up with the updates. I like the original look though, it was unique yet not trying too hard, unlike recent BMW cars. I like the tech and different modes, nannies - meaning an idiot like me is maybe less likely to be killed than on a Busa (something else I have a weird fetish for) etc. I'd like a bike that is a tractable as a big 6cyl MB but not a cruiser or something too heavy.

    • Yamaha R6, VMAX: Axed
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      @exage03040 There are certainly people that buy new sportbikes with intentions to only use them on the track, but they are surely in the minority. Most people doing track days are starting out on whatever sport-ish bike they ride on the street, then moving to getting a dedicated track bike after getting addicted. Very few true adult novices start with racing, most do track days first then move to racing after a while. Kids are the exception, the fast ones start when they are 5 or 6, but they won't be on 600s for a while.

      For racing, it depends how fast you are. If you can consistently podium in the expert class, you're maybe buying a new bike every other year as contingency only pays current + previous model years. Everybody else, it kinda depends. The R1 is the same for 2015+, the R6 basically the same from 2008+. If you don't have a shot at winning and getting paid your $500 for it, there shouldn't be any speed difference between model years. Might not even matter for the cost difference anyways.

      That may all end up being irrelevant. People will still be able to race a 2020 & get paid on it next year, and maybe they are just skipping a year and working on a new 2022? A turbo doesn't make any sense, the power delivery when it spools up could be a disaster in a corner.

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      Quebec banning gasoline vehicle sales past 2035
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      @CB Frankly it's all bogus. Unless some truly remarkable batteries (and charging tecniques) are developed, that date's just going to keep getting pushed.

      Not to mention that the grid just won't handle the demand. Yeah, they've got 15 years to sort it... Construction moves slow. I have many doubts.

      IMO, and I've been banging this drum for a while, full-scale electrification is going to have to come down to the viability of hydrogen fuel cells.