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Rhaedas said:
"Everyone laughed at me..."
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How so? Once you have a picture it's easy enough to send it to anyone with a PC or smart phone. Although I have to wonder about anyone going to that amount of trouble to save a shack in the the middle of nowhere.:D
 
Maybe I should have made that longer..."Everyone laughed at me for moving all this dirt."

Hey, if it's the only shack you have, he still has it, right?
 
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The orginal design was to have micro sized jet engines and electric motors for all 4 wheels, the auto worked well with that set up, I guess they just left it when they changed the engine to something more conventional.
 
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The original engine was actually micro jets providing the power. These, sadly, have now been replaced for the production models.
 
The firing of neurons in the human brain – using a substance that makes the nerve fluoresce scientists are able to take pictures of the brain in action.


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wynn said:
Why make such a fancy car, and yet give it an automatic transmission?
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  • A. Because a computer can do a better job of choosing the right gear than a human.
  • B. Because a computer can shift faster than a human.
  • C. Because it's probably a variable-ratio transmission so the verb "shift" has no meaning.
  • D. Because with all the aforementioned technology, letting the computer choose the gear ratios will result in better fuel economy and better performance.
  • E. Because most of the people who are willing and able to pay a million bucks for a car don't want to have to shift the bloody gears!
Obviously there will be a few. Those people have million-dollar limousines with chauffeurs, but they keep a hot limited-production sportscar in the garage for times when they feel like letting loose. But even many of those sportscars have automatics.

I've had sportscars with stick and automatic, and I found that both kinds had their pros and cons, even in high-performance driving. If you're going through an increasing-radius S-bend and you hit red line in second gear, you don't really want to have to take one hand off the wheel in order to shift into third.

Oh yeah, and if it's a front-wheel drive sportscar (although to me that's an oxymoron), when you back off on the throttle to shift, and unweight the rear tires, they'll break loose and you'll be going through your turn sideways.
 
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