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do you? I mean really, have you ever looked into how inaccurate non-emergency vehicle speedometers are? The old mechanical speedometers used a resistance spring working against magnetic force, so your accuracy was the spring rate. The were pessimistic at low speeds and optimistic at mid-higher speeds, modern ones use variable reluctance magnetic sensor to generate a sine wave that is then electronically fed to the speedometer. It is more accurate but now mfg's can program them to be continuously optimistic with the variance growing the faster you go. So point is, you looking at your speedometer is not an accurate reading, it's a best guess. And then there are all the "tricks" certain counties will put in place just to trip people up, like lowered speed limits for small sections that only require one sign that is easy to miss: http://jalopnik.com/an-ohio-town-made-millions-from-speed-cameras-but-now-i-1792482681 Don't think for a second any of this crap is accurate and the government is playing fair with it. The government knows you aren't paying attention, they know your speedometer is inaccurate and their equipment is slightly more accurate, they know you don't know when their shit is inaccurate, and they know you like to pay your way out of a hassle = millions of dollars in revenue to them. This is a great way for you to live your life, but there are many others who don't agree and don't want to be taken advantage of by a system that is stacked against the motorist and exploited by the government from the state to the local level. In other words, good for you for paying the fine, but shame on you for trying to morally shame those who prefer to fight an unfair system. Maybe we should just call speeding tickets, tax collection and then CR will rage against it, LOL.

well to be fair, police aircraft have a lot of other uses beyond speed enforcement that are pretty great: ground support, search and rescue, high-speed car pursuits, observation, air patrol and control of large-scale public events and/or public order incidents are all pretty legitimate uses for them....however, they are too infrequent to justify the cost of employing full time pilots, plus aircraft, plus mechanics to maintain the aircraft, so they end up tapping into the cash cow that is speed enforcement. There is a reason why Ohio is #1 for writing speeding tickets consistently, because we let them get away with bullshit like inaccurate enforcement methods by not fighting the tickets.

Have they offered a plea? Often they will and it is a reduction to the point where you won't get points, and to me it's worth it to just take it and run - you pay a fee, your insurance doesn't go up, and you save a ton of time. Traffic courts tend to be kangaroo courts - you just aren't going to convince a judge the state is acting wrongly even if they are, so a deal is your way of buying yourself out of losing the time to lose at trial. I can't speak on whether they are required to have signs or not, but let me ask you this: did the stretch of road have the painted lines on it (the start and finish lines?) or not? Personally I think that speed monitoring by aircraft is one of the least reliable ways to measure speeding there is because of the numerous points of operator error and well...basic science. First off Police use a system called VASCAR, Visual Average Speed Computer And Recorder, and it is just a stopwatch coupled to a simple computer. The unit looks like this: http://www.vascarplus.com/Pages/VASCAR3c.jpg Right away should be your first clue as to how "accurate" this system is - Average. It can only calculate an average speed, it isn't taking an actual measurement of speed it's measuring how much time it takes for you to cover a specific distance. The specific distance is measured by those lines painted on the roadway (which is why I asked if there were lines painted on the road before) and the officer clicks on when you pass the start line and clicks off when you hit the finish line. So there is your second clue as to how accurate it is: if the pilot keyed the start of the measurement late (say when your back tires crossed the start line) and terminated it early (when your front wheels crossed the finish line) then you will have a higher average speed reading than if he keyed it when your front wheels crossed the start line and finish line. At this point you must be thinking - well how hard is it to get that wrong...well remember they are doing this from an giant metal bird moving about 100-130mph (cruse speed for a cessna 172), so they may have different perspectives on the car as it runs the course. Assuming they can keep visual contact with the car at all times (i.e. there aren't trees in the way or heavy traffic with similarly colored cars). Here is a great mathematical breakdown as to how normal reaction time can create a 33mph discrepancy: http://travel.3dresearch.com/prep1.html Contesting the speeding ticket holds the police accountable for their actions. If everyone contested these speed enforced by aircraft tickets they wouldn't do it anymore because of low ROI. It's 1966 technology that hasn't improved any in the last 50 years and it's wildly inaccurate, but people are bullied by the state into paying it because of the hassle of the court system and the the lie that aircraft enforcement is somehow more accurate when it is literally the least accurate way to measure speed still in use. If the state want's to make allegations against you make them prove it - the only reason they continue to get away with this nonsense is because people pay this without fighting it.

absolutely, but there are ways to minimize the damage. For example: Jeep Wranglers and Subarus have single digit first year depreciation and tend to loose less overall value over a 5 year life cycle. I think Wranglers lose something like $6K total over 5 years, which is pretty great compared to a ford explorer which loses roughly $11K in the same time span.

A lot of factors, but how common they are, perceived reputation, actual cost of ownership, etc...all factor in. One of the reasons luxury cars have higher depreciation than non-luxury cars is the cost of ownership, when even the oil changes on a bmw cost twice what they cost on a civic, fewer people want them. Any car that is used heavily in a rental fleet (to the point when someone says rental car they think of x car) usually has a pretty high depreciation. People just don't like buying or driving rental cars. I found this slideshow of the worst depreciating 2016 cars and although it doesn't mention the malibu, there are a lot of American cars on this list: http://www.autoblog.com/photos/cars-that-depreciate-fastest/#slide-4240866 I figured out where i saw the 35% number - it was on the malibu forums where some owners were trying to figure out the depreciation on their 2014 models.

nice. 9561 is the 427 package, 9737 is the sports car package, that makes it a double COPO - not many of those around. Do you know what dealer the car was sold out of? Is it a TH400 or an M22 car? IIRC this was Kevin Eastman's personal car, right?

who spends almost $40K on a malibu? I mean if it is one from the '60's with a big block and a 4 speed I can kind of see it, but a brand new malibu? Just to be sure I went on Chevy's configurator and selecting every option I was able to get the msrp to $37,490. That's high, and actually hard to do, I figure most will sell for right around $30K. I forget where I saw it but I was reading recently that the malibu and the Taurus have something like a 35% depreciation in the first year. most cars have an average of about 15-20%, a car with "bad" depreciation has 25%. A Subaru Impreza has something like a 3% depreciation in the first year - it won't see 35% depreciation until like the 5th year of ownership. owning an American car these days is just a bad proposition all around.

Ok so that already happened, they just need to update the website.

what's this about them moving to Austin Landing? It comes up when you go to their web page.

this one?: http://moparconnectionmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/17793115_10154236731272046_1011462777_n-650x347.jpg That is a lot more engineered than I thought it would be. I figured...dodge...they just slap a plastic flare on there and call it a day.

do you think the Demon flares will be available OTC to fit to regular challengers?

still not sexy.

demon in all the available colors: I am bummed that dodge now uses Tor Red for it's red color - it used to be Plymouth's name for Hemi Orange. I get why they can't use Hemi Orange because the color is actually red and not orange but still. I think Dodge needs to cycle in some of these old rejected names, they could get away with some of them now: http://maxwedge.com/articles/highimpact.php I don't know why but "Unforseeable Fuicha" is my favorite.

Pricing is pretty good, not that I can afford it, but still - doubt you could build an equally as fast car for the same money. I forget, does the Demon come with A/C? Is there an A/C Delete and Radio Delete option? I honestly can't think of why someone would want a sunroof, speakers, or a cold weather package in a drag car but I suspect about half of these are going to be bought just so someone can dick wave that they have the fastest production street challenger. I am disappointed with the graphics package which is literally just a flat sheet of Vinyl covering the hood trunk and roof. I was hoping for something retro like the shaker stripes dodge did recently on the challenger. I know they are running out of retro stripe designs from the original cars but something that paid tribute to the original ramchargers race team would have been cool: I am however excited by the return of F8 green to the challenger - for those that don't know, F8 is the paint code for a legacy Green color for Chrysler/Plymouth/Dodge. From 1969 to 1973 the F8 paint code was "Dark Green" for Dodge, Jade Green and Forrest Green for Chrysler, and Ivy Green and Forrest Green for Plymouth. http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170414/d39275d40d5c188c2d59494d01a1a0a8.jpg

yup: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-23/former-world-champion-nicky-hayden-dies/8549242 Although I generally agree that drivers these days aren't attentive enough to avoid other cars, let alone bicyclists and motorcyclists - let's not turn this into a bicycle PSA, it's bad enough the world was just deprived of the talent of one of America's greatest motorcycle riders.

There is some speculation that the only thing the car had was hellcat brakes and the demon wheels, which means it may have been testing the wear patterns on the tires. Does that mean it still qualifies as an SRT car with the special list and all that? http://www.allpar.com/news/2017/05/meet-the-300c-hellcat-widebody-37582

So I have always wondered about that...I live (or lived since I am moving) in a complex that has a lot of Honda engineers and have seen a lot of mfg plates in the parking lot on some very fun weird cars. My favorite is when someone brings home the European Market cars like Opels (at one point there were two Opel Amperas, the EU Chevy Volt, parked in the lot for a week) or the pre-production cars like the NSX, Ridgeline, and new civic. I just assumed this was allowed since it is so common but that can't be. So how does it work? when can you and when can't you take home a mfg car?

nearly every BMW I have owned, except for my E30, has had lock problems. My E90 right now has a non-functional unlock microswitch on the passenger door. It's common. In fact it is so common that I wouldn't really trust a used part on the car for fear it would fail immediately after install. Regarding the battery draining: BMWs are generally electronically complex cars and they often have electronics that linger on after you shut the car off. The E36 is a less complex car than some of the later ones, but short drives (under 10 minutes) for less than a week can zap a battery dead. Does the car have a central lock button (should be on the center console in the E36 next to the shifter)? I honestly would test that and make sure it didn't go bad as well. It could be stuck and then playing with the outside lock might be fighting against it. as far as a new part: I buy all my bmw parts for either ECS or Bavarin Auto Works: https://www.bavauto.com/ For an E36 Bavauto is probably the best bet because they had everything for my e30. A quick search shows $100 for the actuator that the dealer probably wanted $400 for.

http://lanesplitter.jalopnik.com/last-american-to-win-a-motogp-championship-nicky-hayden-1795394954 Tragic. Just tragic.

you are outright calling it bullshit - I'd say that heavily implies where you stand on it. The article clearly walks through the source and the steps taken to vet the information. Unless you were reading the headlines and nothing else, It's pretty clear about the information and where it came from and it hasn't been misleading. It could just be that you don't want to hear it. It seems your problem is with how people will read this information and not the media and how it is reported at all. you are worried that people are going to skip the part where the paper discusses it's sources and draw a conclusion and yet somehow that it the paper's fault. I'd say things were pretty well substantiated as best the paper can. Many papers don't disclose their sources for good reason - the country has a history of punishing sources. The paper it pretty clear about you having the choice as to whether they have vetted it or not - you just choose not to believe because you don't like the message. I don't know what Trump is out to do, but I suspect whatever it is it isn't for the good of the American people based on his current actions and policies. I wouldn't put it above him to undermine government in trying to reach his objectives (which again I don't think are in the overall public interest). I also wouldn't put it above him to partner with outside forces that really do want to undermine the American government for their benefit. We are just going to see how it shakes out. you throw that "cowards" label around fairly callously. Can you tell me exactly which laws the "leaks" violate? There isn't a specific law to deal with government leaks to the media - the closest is the Espionage Act (of 1917), which is a broad "catch all" that even still doesn't have jurisprudence to support a positive finding for leaks out of the executive branch to the media. By the way this is also the act Flynn might be prosecuted under if it comes to that and there is def jurisprudence to support a violation from leaking information to another foreign power. The real element here is "harm" to the government. Not harm to the president, harm to the government of the country and it's people. You say they are doing harm to our society, but leaks that are intended to expose corruption and collusion don't really fall into that category of harm to society.

this feels like a waste of a truck: https://limaohio.craigslist.org/cto/6100987938.html

Mallard, care to comment: http://blog.caranddriver.com/spied-a-chrysler-300-hellcat-with-demon-drag-radials/ http://blog.caranddriver.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Chrysler-300-SRT-Hellcat-spy-photo-106-626x382.jpg I was always sad that they killed the SRT-8 300C, it was a great sleeper, esp the first generation ones.

yeah....maybe one at the zoo with a watch bar and goodie bags and a charge for admission....oh wait.... relocation tends to be a big hit for organic events like this. An accommodating location that's easy to access is key, finding another place with that kind of magic can be difficult. I'll be honest, I don't think the cup of Joe made the difference in the equation. Sure they did business, but people didn't come to CCC for the Cup of Joe. I'll miss it but I still think the lenox parking lot supports the needs of the event.

Just because you don't want to believe it doesn't make it any less true or false. The absence of evidence does not automatically prove the opposite, it just means that the the allegation is not fully supported. It's smoke, the news is telling you it's smoke, but you are saying the news should only report on fire. Either the leakers are spreading true information, or the press is making the leaked stuff up. It can't be both. I don't really have to point out the hypocrisy of you earlier calling the whitehouse leakers traitors guilty of treason and yet you refuse to be open to the possibility that the current administration colluded with a foreign power to undermine our government, do I?

Are you retarded? Serious question, are you? Fox News doesn't even fit into this category, neither does Huffington post or some of the more overtly biased news organizations. If you don't know the definition of something look it up, don't just invent a new definition to suit your narrative. Your past pattern. Usually you post something like this and then Defend it. But please go ahead and make fun of it...by all means...don't let us stop you. Do it, you won't.