Intrepidation

Veterans Day is dedicated to vets who are still alive, Memorial Day is dedicated to veterans who have died. However you can't thank the dead for their service, you can remember them though.

Speaking of the Gallaro... And for you Balthazar, a Merlin powered Chevy:

the Gallardo's V10 and how you can hear it over the Chevy. Both awesome, although the results are predicable: heavily modified car VS what sounds and looks to be stock car would love to see what happens when some corner are thrown into the mix.

Thank you to all who have helped defend our country.

I haven't been too happy with Chrysler's advertising campaigns lately, but there are a few that are quite good. This is one of them. Simple, yet drive the point home. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOukB0_5sEs

http://www.autoblog.com/2010/05/06/video-mythbusters-put-the-science-of-crashing-cars-to-the-test/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GuqiAHGGT4&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-JGIYLZZUg&feature=player_embedded

Even though the actual force of the impact is still only equivalent to hitting a stationary object at 40mph.

Couldn't disagree more, but that's your opinion.

I get a malware warning.

Some of the top V8's for me:

List to that baby howl!

Naw, if it's gonna be a radial it's gotta be the Wright Cyclone Model R-1820-97 engines on the B-17. Speaking of aircraft, equally awesome is the Rolls Royce Merlin engine equipped in the P-51 Mustang. Of course this is a bit off topic since these are planes, not cars, but oh well.

There is no winner as this is all about your own opinion. Anyway, that radial powered car is both insane and quite cool, though I was a bit disappointed not to see some sort of flat out acceleration, and that all that power is both cool and wasted going to a dinky little car with skinny tires. Still awesome though, especially to see pieces being hand made. The sound does nothing for me, but it's very cool nonetheless.

What, to you, is the best noise you've ever heard come from a car (or truck)? In your response you should, if possible find a video or sound clip for all of us to hear and enjoy it. I've thought about this one for a while. I love the sound of V8's. Ferrari V8s make some fantastic noise, however I generally prefer a deeper note. Top examples include the Corvette ZR1, Challenger SRT8, Mustang GT500, and V8 Vantage. I love V8's and plan to own one at some point. With that sound, the best sound I have ever heard is none of those. It's not a V8 either. The best sound for me comes from the Lamborghini Murcielago, specifically the LP670-4 SV. The way it revs and howls just makes my hair stand on end any time I listen to it. Nothing else I've heard sounds like it (the closest being the Gallardo's V10). So here's not one, but two videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e324MRs85sg I love it. So what about you? What's the best noise to come from a car?

That is unfortunate.

Well between the four of we drove nearly nonstop except for food and some photos all the way from MA to New Orleans, to Tulsa, OK. I'm not a long haul driver, probably 4-6 hours or so is what I can do before I need a rest of some kind. I lose my concentration after that.

I installed Windows 2000 twice so now I have Windows 4000 I installed Windows Millennium twice and got a fatal error.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CexJup_tfnE&feature=related

Taking a deep drag on his cigarette while resting on the steering wheel of his truck, he looks like a parody of a middle-aged lorry driver. But the image covers up a much more disturbing truth: At just the tender age of two, Ardi Rizal's health has been so ruined by his 40-a-day habit that he now struggles to move by himself. The four-stone Indonesia toddler is certainly far too unfit to run around with other children - and his condition is set to rapidly deteriorate. But, despite local officials' offer to buy the Rizal family a new car if the boy quits, his parents feel unable to stop him because he throws massive tantrums if they don't indulge him. His mother, Diana, 26, wept: 'He's totally addicted. If he doesn't get cigarettes, he gets angry and screams and batters his head against the wall. He tells me he feels dizzy and sick.' Ardi will smoke only one brand and his habit costs his parents £3.78 a day in Musi Banyuasin, in Indonesia's South Sumatra province. But in spite of this, his fishmonger father Mohammed, 30, said: 'He looks pretty healthy to me. I don't see the problem.' Ardi's youth is the extreme of a disturbing trend. Data from the Central Statistics Agency showed 25 per cent of Indonesian children aged three to 15 have tried cigarettes, with 3.2 per cent of those active smokers. The percentage of five to nine year olds lighting up increased from 0.4 per cent in 2001 to 2.8 per cent in 2004, the agency reported. A video of a four-year-old Indonesian boy blowing smoke rings appeared briefly on YouTube in March, prompting outrage before it was removed from the site. Child advocates are speaking out about the health damage to children from second-hand smoke, and the growing pressure on them to smoke in a country where one-third of the population uses tobacco and single cigarettes can be bought for a few cents. Seto Mulyadi, chairman of Indonesia's child protection commission, blames the increase on aggressive advertising and parents who are smokers. 'A law to protect children and passive smokers should be introduced immediately in this country,' he said. A health law passed in 2009 formally recognizes that smoking is addictive, and an anti-smoking coalition is pushing for tighter restrictions on smoking in public places, advertising bans and bigger health warnings on cigarette packages. But a bill on tobacco control has been stalled because of opposition from the tobacco industry. The bill would ban cigarette advertising and sponsorship, prohibit smoking in public, and add graphic images to packaging. Benny Wahyudi, a senior official at the Industry Ministry, said the government had initiated a plan to try to limit the number of smokers, including dropping production to 240 billion cigarettes this year, from 245 billion in 2009. 'The government is aware of the impact of smoking on health and has taken efforts, including lowering cigarette production, increasing its tax and limiting smoking areas,' he said. Mr Mulyadi said a ban on advertising is key to putting the brakes on child and teen smoking. 'If cigarette advertising is not banned, there will be more kids whose lives are threatened because of smoking,' he said. Ubiquitous advertising hit a bump last month when a cigarette company was forced to withdraw its sponsorship of pop star Kelly Clarkson's concert following protests from fans and anti-tobacco groups. However, imposing a non-smoking message will be difficult in Indonesia, the world's third-largest tobacco consumer. Tubagus Haryo Karbyanto, a member of the National Commission of Tobacco Control, said Indonesia must also address the social conditions that lead to smoking, such as family influence and peer pressure. 'The promotion of health has to be integrated down to the smallest units in our society, from public health centres and local health care centres to the family,' he was quoted as saying by the Jakarta Globe on Friday. Health Minister Endang Sedyaningsih conceded turning young people off smoking will be difficult in a country where it is perceived as positive because cigarette companies sponsor everything from scholarships to sporting events. 'This is the challenge we face in protecting youth from the dangers of smoking,' she said in a statement on the ministry's website. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1281538/Smoking-year-old-Ardi-Rizal-40-cigarettes-day.html

I guessed on that one, I figured it had to be either Skoda or Seat.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/carlogos.php First time took me 2:49 to get 41/42 but then I got stuck cuz I forgot about Daewoo (can you blame me?) Second try I got it in 2:25

So you don't want your roller blades to cost over $9000?

There was a fast food place in Wichita that had really good food. Spangles.

Think I'll just stick with the local places...I don't even want to know what fast food ribs will be like, but I doubt they're worth the price and don't taste that good. I will concede though that I tried KFC's Double Down and thought it was good. Of course I asked for the chicken fresh, which helped. Not something I'd have often, but pretty good.