Traditional carmakers waste HUGE amounts of money making annual "cosmetic" changes... body styles, taillight designs, bumper styles, trim, and all sorts of other stupid shit just to appeal to faddish stylistic tastes. I think it's a whole lot smarter to avoid all that kind of crap and just...
I bought my first Tesla shares at about $388 a share. During these recent dips I bought more at about $820 a share. ;-) I'm a "buy and hold" investor and probably won't sell my shares until about the time my Cybertruck is going to be delivered... it would be cool if these shares paid off my...
The Tegtmeyer video this morning showed 3 GigaPresses installed, some parts for the fourth one (also 6K tons), and no parts yet (in Austin anyhow) for an 8K ton GigaPress.
The prototype doesn't have the final bed, which is probably going to be the cast aluminum produced on the huge new Gigapresses... which are still being made at IDRA in Italy.
The Citroen SM had very tight steering ratio (less than 2 turns lock-to-lock IIRC) but with variable assist (including powered centering!!). It came out around 1972. It was a GREAT car.
BTW that was also the car that innovated the use of stalks for most everything... lights, horns, etc etc.... instead of buttons/knobs on the dash or elsewhere.
Just got back from breakfast and decided to drive it around on the paved circle outside the house. Turned off the CT and brought it inside, and after a few minutes the power LED on the controller DOES turn off.
Works great, but have you figured out how to turn off the controller? There's a power switch on the CT but on the controller the power LED seems to stay on.... how long? Seems crazy to have to take out a battery (with a screwdriver!) to turn the controller off...?
Is it actually electric somehow?
Hmm.... there actually are remote-control ones too, both 1:63 scale and 1:10 scale...listed on both Amazon and Ebay...