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I watched my son's first baseball game of the year. He had a 50/50 game. He went 2/4 with 3 RBIs. A single, a double and a walk. He came in all three times he made it to base. No strike-outs. He played shortstop. He made 2 fantastic plays to first ending 2 innings with the 3rd out ending threats of the opposing to to score. He also played 3rd base. He overthrew to first on the last inning to make the opposing team tie the game with 1 run in with 2 outs. Easy play and the game would have been over and they would have won... They eventually lost the game 8-7. (we were the away team) He didnt feel too bad for losing. He had fun. His teammates were having fun. It will be a great year for him, I think!

Mercedes says over 99.65% of particles, I'll take their word for it. And that matches Tesla's 99.7%, and we know Tesla is more likely to round up numbers than Mercedes is.

Maybe they shouldn't be military-grade if they want to turn a profit..? Mercedes is a profitable company, Tesla is not. I think this right here is what absolutely kills the car for me. This ratio being off messes with everything else.

I get what you are saying. And yes, you are not arguing against what Balthy and I are saying, but only correcting the information at hand...which is cool. And necessary for mis-information not to be reproduced. Thank-you. It is quite recent, this rule, I believe. I think 2018? But even before 2018, sometime between the 1980s when it was carefree and 2018, the engines had to last 4 engines per driver for the whole season or 5 races per engine. In other words, some sort of durability was and is applied to F1 engines and gearboxes. Which is nice to know. https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/promoted-how-f1s-engines-survive-the-punishment-of-a-long-season-5285414/5285414/ The relevant sections of the Formula 1 technical regulations written by the FIA (motorsport's governing body) decree, in short, that each driver may use only three engines per season to cover every practice session, qualifying and race. Article 23.3 (a) of the 2018 FIA sporting regulations states: "...each driver may use no more than three engines (ICE); three motor generator units-heat (MGU-H); three turbochargers (TC); two energy stores (ES); two control electronics (CE) and two motor generator units-kinetic (MGU-K) during a championship season. Long gone are the carefree, spendthrift days of the mid-1980s (pictured below), when the likes of BMW specialised in producing 'qualifying grenade' motors, capable of pushing out around 1500bhp... before internal components melted and the engines were scrapped. Now, with only three PUs permitted per driver, each of them has to last seven races, whereas previously it was four per driver, or five races per engine. The requirement for PUs to last an extra two race weekends was "a significant step", in the words of one engineer, but the change was made to help reduce the cost of supply to the customer teams.

F1 changed that awhile back as the top teams would rebuild/replace-with-new after every race but now they're required to last 7 races(sealed - cannot be touched) or they're penalized. But, your point still stands. 7 races is far from extreme durability as it's estimated to be only 1326 miles + practice and qualifying(add 15%..?). Not in F1.

Actually... Racing cars are built ONLY to last THAT race... Balthy already stated that. Engines, transmissions...are all rebuilt after EVERY race. Tolerances are soooooo tight, that after running hard for a full race, the wear and tear on them in soooooo great that a rebuild is necessary because after a race, the tolerances are no longer in spec, wear and tear... therefore the engine is not making the full amount of horsepower that was engineered into it and the transmission will fail... The aeropackages on a race car are engineered to be just strong enough to do its job, but not as strong as to be too heavy.... In other words: aeropackages and even the chassis, are NOT overengineered to last a lifetime, just strong enough to be as light as possible to accomplish the task at hand in that one race. Which is to be as light as it could possibly be... Even the tires...are not pretty durable... Durable means they last 50-60 thousand miles, right? Well...we all know that racing tires do NOT last but a handful of laps... The only race cars I know that HAVE to be durable, are the ENDURANCE race cars that race for 12 or 24 hours... But even THOSE...all THEY have to do is just outlast the competition and for only...that 12 or 24 hour period... However, race cars are built sturdy...to handle high G Forces and high speed impacts to protect the driver. But being built sturdy does NOT equal being built durable. Being built to high tolerances does NOT equal to being built durable. Race cars are NOT built to be durable. Passenger cars are built to be durable. They are built to last a couple of hundred of thousand of miles... and there is a usual warranty from the manufacturer of 5 years or 50 000 miles. If only a race car could get 5 months and 5 000 miles...

Just dropped my son off at Boy Scout camp for the week……

Workin on Father’s Day (with my son).

Happy Father's Day, gents! This time I mean it.

The EQS's air filtration system is as good as a hospital operating room.

From what I've read, the EQS is estimated to be sub-400 miles on the US test cycle. Yeah, Mercedes botched the styling of the EQS and I'm usually a sucker for Mercedes styling. That thing just has not grown on me yet. I don't care that its function over styling. It's ugly.

Pro-level race vehicles are completely gone through after EVERY RACE. Some motorsports rebuild the entire engine after every race. I would not choose to call that 'durable' as related to passenger vehicles.

Teslas's do seem quite durable. Mercedes used their Formula 1 powertrain team to help develop the EQS motors, and the new AMG plug-in hybrid powertrains. Formula 1 parts have to be pretty durable.

Oh f@#king stop it. Their claim is as valid as Mercedes and the EQS which is almost assured to not keep the 400 miles range. It’s been well discussed as to why so just save it. As far as Lucid, their quality can be no worse than Tesla’s is TODAY. Screw ten years ago. So, in other words (and without the fanboy superlatives), they haven’t buried anyone. They can’t even beat BMW and Tesla at this point. That is not “king of the mountain” in sales but then again, fanboy logic.

That new Tundra face..reminds me of Bane's mask. Speaking of Tundras, my CDJR dealer had two Tacomas and a Tundra on the lot--all 2018-2020, all silver 4x4s. And a dark blue '20 Ranger. All low mileage used, parked out front w/ Rams and Gladiators.

Drained the rest of the fluids out & took the heads off today. Nothing of note in the bore other than some old carbon. Wiped them clean, hammered on each piston with a wood block/hammer, squirted them up with plentiful Kroil, hammered again, tried turning but nothing. Will let soak.

They haven’t buried anyone to date and have no more a shot of burying Tesla than the competition does. Think about it before you misread that. It sure as hell wont start with the ugly EQS.

F1 gets 3 engines, MGU-K, MGU-H and transmissions per year and have 20-23 races a year. So their engine has to do 7 races and most of those laps are 70-80% full throttle at 15,000+ RPM. No passenger car could run 2 hours around a track near redline 80% of the time without everything over heating and the engine probably dying, let alone do that in 7 races, 7 qualifying sessions and 21 practice sessions.