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    Eric Howell
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  1. I think it would actually sell better if they had in fact gone with 'knickers'..
  2. Sad sign of the times for racing when street cars actually start sounding better than F1 cars..
  3. You simply cannot have good Mexican food without a healthy dose of fresh Seee-lantro! 😋
  4. ACBC found the material during his yacht building phase as an interior material used in luxury yachts and specified it for Elites and Esprits. Also hence why it held up so poorly in the UV and heat exposure of an auto. Material marketed by Krypton in the US has been touted as a substitute but the swatches I've gotten of it were not a good match to me. Sometimes hard to pin down the original color accurately as many of the "original" Esprits at auction show it to be a walnut or chocolate color, but many of the faded samples like your seem to go almost olive or gold with age. An accurate replacement is still a holy grail. Good luck!
  5. I'd venture to say in @KusaKusa territory, heat/AC takes more out of an EV range than it would from an ICE. EVs are useable in urban areas like everywhere else in the world. I have plenty of friends with EVs of all strata from Bolts to Teslas to Rivians and Lucids. Range anxiety is real and they do not go out of their way to take long trips in them. If they do, they stick to Interstates with established charging infrastructures and spend significant time and effort to plan around recharging. Me? I can stop for 5 minutes to gas up and get a Bladder Buster soda and some jerky before having to stop again in 400 mi. (passenger pee breaks notwithstanding)
  6. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13079085/california-plastic-bag-ban-backfires-reusable.html "Now, California legislators are working to rectify the growing problem by proposing a new law that plans to ban the thick plastic bags too. " https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/regulation/new-jerseys-plastic-bag-ban-backfires-big-time/ https://lluh.org/patients-visitors/health-wellness/live-it/online-health-show/episode-2-reusable-grocery-bags https://stanfordmag.org/contents/paper-plastic-or-reusable#:~:text=In terms of disposal%2C paper,is the next best option. It will be a never-ending cycle. Only consistent thing is when governments get involved they usually make matters worse. 🤦‍♂️
  7. Well. There's always the Soylent Green solution..
  8. I had the opportunity to drive the previous Vantage on track and it was a blast, perhaps still with Matt's touch involved. The new one certainly looks the business as a serious anti-Porker. They have at least had competitive dabbles in endurance racing in the recent past and have also had a classy air about them probably thanks in no part to involvement in the Bond saga. Would definitely keep them on the list for my lottery win. 🤷‍♂️
  9. I'll see your Jag and raise you an Elise GT!... https://en.springbok.de/cars/details/?f=126
  10. Lewis would be in for quite a culture shock with that move. If he thought he had some WTF moments on tire strategy with Mercedes, just wait. 🤪
  11. yeller77

    Wordle

    Wordle 957 2/6 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Had not played in ages, time to back into retirement on a high note!
  12. It's more like the Polestar story. Though not a manufacturer per se, it's worth remembering what a Polestar badge once meant.
  13. What? no reviews of "Ferrari" as yet? I'll go, saw this past weekend. No spoilers here as it's all history already. Good, not great. AD's acting was good though not that believable as Enzo, an admittedly challenging character. I may be biased by the Enzo years that I've lived to see when he would've made a good Godfather character. Well-played by AD but on occasion allowing some brooding Kylo Ren to show through. Good combined use of driving and CGI. Significantly graphic but probably still less so than the time was in reality. I found it difficult at times to know what the film was going for: was it about Enzo, was it the company, was it about Laura/Lina/Piero/Enzo quadrangle and the ghost of Dino, was it about de Portago and the Mille? Highlighted them all but I didn't get an a+b+c=d moment. Other observations: enjoyed seeing the cars but clearly most were Bonham's queens with 15 layers of hand-rubbed lacquer when originally were disposable racing tools with just enough paint to cover the metal. Usual Hollywood racing conventions of probably more wheel to wheel action and excessive shifting than there actually was, but they had to make it interesting to non-nerds. I don't know about anyone else but I'm tired of seeing McDreamy in a race car, real or imagined. I get it, you're a racer, still never be as cool as McQueen or Newman. To digress, though, what I could not help thinking of throughout the film, and clearly showing my bias, is when the heck are we going to get a definitive treatise on "Chapman?" Has anything other than a few mentions in DMC documentaries and minis been produced? It would really take a miniseries of some significance to cover it all and would have all the story anyone would want: formative years with Colin and Hazel (a much more endearing character, I predict, than Laura Ferrari, though well-played by Ms Cruz. Ms Cruz played her desperate and devious enough that she probably would have made a better Enzo), early wins, real David and Goliath stuff with genius to go along with it, the Jim and Graham years, Indy, Emmo and Jochen, Mario and Ronnie, stunning and revolutionary road cars, constant money woes, enough tragedy to go around for anyone interested to say nothing of the end of the genius (sure, more DMC references) and subsequent survival of the company (thanks MJK!). Perhaps when the Peaky Blinders crew get done working on the next season of Rogue Heroes ("Paddy Mayne" does have a bit here too), they can get right on that! Overdue.
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    Pilots

    Sadly another black eye for Boeing and the Max. Fortunately no loss of life or limb this time, bladder and bowel contents not withstanding. Have friend that works for Boeing and internally there seems to have been a been a culture shift in recent years from management down of revenue over quality where, in the longstanding past, Boeing had always been known for their people-focused QC, both in manufacturing and in procedures/pilot education. On the upside, they always eventually seem to bounce back from bad press, so that Boeing stock may start looking enticing.. 🤔
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