A roll cage is great.. provided you're wearing a helmet at all times. An unhelmeted skull and a solid steel tube do not make good friends.
Race-style harnesses do a great job of holding the body in place but they don't allow the driver to lean forward, and leaning forward is important at intersections, toll gates, drive-thrus, and the like. Not only that but they usually obliterate the rear seats' ability to hold passengers.
My 1988 Honda CRX DX has more legroom than almost anything I've driven, and I'm 6'2".
The CRX HF model Honda made got 50 miles to the gallon, using nothing more than a small, efficient engine and a very light chassis.
I'd love to see what twenty years of technological advances could do with the same idea. Make the engine the same size, but more effecient; make the chassis the same size, and throw in some airbags. I know that all the bullshit safety legislation and crash testing means it would never happen, yet I can't believe that we couldn't get another ten MPG with a modern engine.
Then, I look at the Smart car, which weighs two hundred pounds less than the HF but gets worse mileage, and I start to doubt it. *shrug*
I remember reading about this as a preteen in MUSE magazine... oh, probably eight to ten years ago. I don't remember all the details, but the article mentioned attaching a sort of syringe to deal with larger volumes of medication..
At the speeds he was making, the physical appearance of his vehicle didn't matter in the slightest. The things he did to avoid law enforcement focused on avoiding being detected in the first place, with the radar detectors and the spotter and the meticulous planning to avoid speed traps and the like. Once he was spotted he'd have to drive like a bat out of hell, stickers or not.
I'm suprised Ebay sellers haven't jumped on this and started selling overpriced 1.0 systems. A search for "japanese 1.0" only returned 8 items out of the 1003 in the category...
(even though I suspect that many of those individuals have never actually seen a nude member of the opposite sex, much less made it with one of them.)
Actually, I find it more likely that they've seen a number of nude members of the opposite sex. In secret, of course. Heaven forbid their spouses discover their adultury and expose their hypocrisy...
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A roll cage is great.. provided you're wearing a helmet at all times. An unhelmeted skull and a solid steel tube do not make good friends. Race-style harnesses do a great job of holding the body in place but they don't allow the driver to lean forward, and leaning forward is important at intersections, toll gates, drive-thrus, and the like. Not only that but they usually obliterate the rear seats' ability to hold passengers.
My 1988 Honda CRX DX has more legroom than almost anything I've driven, and I'm 6'2". The CRX HF model Honda made got 50 miles to the gallon, using nothing more than a small, efficient engine and a very light chassis. I'd love to see what twenty years of technological advances could do with the same idea. Make the engine the same size, but more effecient; make the chassis the same size, and throw in some airbags. I know that all the bullshit safety legislation and crash testing means it would never happen, yet I can't believe that we couldn't get another ten MPG with a modern engine. Then, I look at the Smart car, which weighs two hundred pounds less than the HF but gets worse mileage, and I start to doubt it. *shrug*
I remember reading about this as a preteen in MUSE magazine... oh, probably eight to ten years ago. I don't remember all the details, but the article mentioned attaching a sort of syringe to deal with larger volumes of medication..
At the speeds he was making, the physical appearance of his vehicle didn't matter in the slightest. The things he did to avoid law enforcement focused on avoiding being detected in the first place, with the radar detectors and the spotter and the meticulous planning to avoid speed traps and the like. Once he was spotted he'd have to drive like a bat out of hell, stickers or not.
Read the end of the article, my friend.
Raise enough money to make up the $50,000 the machine costs to begin with?
It's obviously Halo 2 PC.
I'm suprised Ebay sellers haven't jumped on this and started selling overpriced 1.0 systems. A search for "japanese 1.0" only returned 8 items out of the 1003 in the category...
IMHO, the biggest titles are usually exclusives.
(even though I suspect that many of those individuals have never actually seen a nude member of the opposite sex, much less made it with one of them.) Actually, I find it more likely that they've seen a number of nude members of the opposite sex. In secret, of course. Heaven forbid their spouses discover their adultury and expose their hypocrisy...