My dad just got a S60 T6. Pretty fast. His old 04 Maxima 3.5SE that I get to drive around isn't exactly a slouch either.
your not kidding. for something that weighs almost 4k pounds with only 300hp the station wagon absolutely flies. my type r coupe would not keep up on an expressway.
Yup. My dad got his days ago and it's pretty damn fast. I doubt I'll ever be allowed to drive it, my parents are already weary of me driving the 260hp Maxima. (When it was new, anyway.) The Maxima is pretty fun being a 6 speed manual, but it's a torquey FWD car with no traction control so you can imagine what that's like in the snow. Haven't hit 100 yet, but I've gotten close.
Actually it makes alot of sense. The leap day happens to account for extra hours that aren't usually included, to make sure that the years are counted evenly or some sh*$ like that. Also this is my 500th post, yay i guess
Heh. I didn't wanna push the Maxima too hard since for some reason after fixing a leak or something in one of the wheels it now has mismatched front tires with different tread levels. And because of this or one of the wheels being out of balance it gets a shake at 50+.. In the short term I might just throw the spare wheel on the front since it happens to be the same cheap Goodyear that was put on one of the front wheels and then my dad was talking about just replacing both front tires. Most of the driving it gets nowadays is me taking it across town to work so it's really not that big of an issue.
No it doesn't. The way we have of measuring time is wrong all the way from the start. For anything smaller than a second, you use the metric system and it makes perfect sense. You have milliseconds, microseconds, nanoseconds... When you want to measure more time, logically, you should also use powers of 10, right? Nope. A minute is 60 seconds. Don't ask why, it just is. An hour is 60 minutes. Alright, so we switched to base 60 now. A day has 24 hours. Wait, what?? A day is the time it takes for the earth to do a full rotation on its own axis. But who the hell decided there should be 24 hours in a day, and then 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute? That makes no sense. It makes writing time of day as a decimal fraction overly difficult. There's no reason for it whatsoever. Why can't we divide the day in powers of 10? Makes things easier. A 'second' could be 1/100000 of a day (with our system it's 1/86,400). You could say "it's 3/10 of today" or "325/1000" if you wanted to be more accurate. You can write it as "0.325" too. It's not any less 'natural' for humans (actually more, since we use a decimal numbering system) and it's easier to keep track of time and add/subtract time. And don't even get me started on 12 hour clocks (AM/PM?? What the fuck?). But it doesn't stop there. Even if we 'fixed' the time within a day, we still have the year - which also makes sense, since it's the time it takes for the earth to complete an orbit around the sun. And things get even worse there. The number of days in a year is not an integer number. That's a problem. But we handle it the wrong way. First. Months. Why do they exist? Is it really that hard to say "day X of year Y"? Instead of writing "2016-02-29" you'd write "2016-60". There are 365 days in a year, it's not a huge number. Besides having no reason to exist, they're bogus. Half of them have 30 days, half have 31. Except for one which has 28. And every 4 years, 29. Wtf?? If you're going to divide the year, at least do it in equal parts. Have 11 30-day months, and one 35(36)-day (the last one, not one that's in the fucking middle). Or, better yet, don't divide the year at all, makes having to add a day every 4 years much easier. And maybe, instead of adding a day every few years (which is horrible and inaccurate), make the 365th day of the year a bit longer - that way all years are the same, and the rule is simpler (day 365 is 25% longer). /rant TL;DR humans suck at keeping track of time
When I did eventually get the 'Rolla to 100 (it took for freaking ever) it got really floaty (expected) and all steering went AWAY. Not, like, "light" it was GONE. It was clear that that car is made to do maybe 70 tops, because it gets really scary beyond that.
I'm glad my mom trusts me. She said as long as it's fairly cheap she doesn't car what hp my car has. I'll just have to pay whatever extra insurance charges for a 17 year old guy with a sporty car. She approved a 450hp V8 mustang. Makes perfect sense. Sure, it's not all 10s, but we have 365.25 light/dark cycles for every one time we orbit our celestial body divided into approximate lunar cycles. I suppose hours could be revamped, but the calendar itself is solid.
My parent's don't trust me at all. I couldn't get an early 2000's anemic V8 Mustang because they found it to be "unsafe". They wouldn't even approve the horrible V6 version. Then they bought me my truck, which is bigger, faster, and way less safe than a V6 Mustang. #logic
