More confirmation from Toyota on next gen 86

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Wedge a stick in the gubner.

Well, iffen ya did that, instead of going pow-swoosh-swoosh-pow, it would just go pow-pow-pow.

MORE POWER!





humfrz

[Adam_L]

Originally Posted by gravitylover

Yeah that cylinder deactivation thing was a problem for Dodge with the Hemi for a while. The additional sudden load as 4 cylinders woke up and tossed a couple hundred hp into the system they were snapping timing chains.

Nice. Do you know if this was some kind of recall , and do you know the model years roughly ?

[gravitylover]

Originally Posted by ermax

Then I guess you buy an economy car, not a sports car?

Originally Posted by Adam_L

Nice. Do you know if this was some kind of recall , and do you know the model years roughly ?

Durangos, Challengers, Chargers with the 5.7's were blowing up for a while there around 2008-2012. It may have started a little earlier and run a bit longer, I don't remember because my Challenger got wrecked and I lost touch with that community.

[venturaII]

Originally Posted by humfrz

I'll take ya'll back even further to the old hit-and-miss engines that were used on our farm.

Yep, variable displacement fer sure -


humfrz

I can watch those run for hours. Any older farm equipment, really..lol. We had an old self-powered New Holland 66/Super 66 hay baler from the 1950s (no PTO...had a big two cylinder Wisconsin air cooled engine powering it, which you had to start by grabbing a bell shaped flywheel and spinning it by hand... the baler itself still had to be towed..) that my grandparents were deathly afraid us kids were going to get sucked into... I'd walk the entire field behind it, just watching it work.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by venturaII

I can watch those run for hours. Any older farm equipment, really..lol.

Yep, didn't take much to amuse us back then. The combine we had "bagged" the grain - actually the person riding the combine bagged the grain. My grandfather would drive the tractor, my father would bag the grain, I would hand him the bag strings and when the chute got full of bags, I would ride them down to the ground when they were released.


Big fun!


humfrz

[nikitopo]

[NARFALICIOUS]

Originally Posted by Adam_L

I remember walking on a Toyota dealer lot about 10-11 years ago, and the higher up there (not just a salesman, but I'd want to say it was the dealer manager) said that "in 4 years from now, Toyota will have every vehicle in gas and hybrid form to choose from". He was dead wrong, someone fed him some misinformation, that would have been by 2012-'13.

It will be 2025-2030, all models will have some sort of electrified version.

[James H]

According to Elon Mucus, if you don't buy a Tesla, you may as well be riding a horse. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/23/elon...g-a-horse.html


I think a lot of people don't mind EVs, it's just Musk they don't like. Not sure why he is so cocky, its not like Tesla is making billions in profit like Microsoft or Apple. Gates and Jobs are pioneers but way more likeable.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by James H

Not sure why he is so cocky,

He is an engineer (well claims to be) so it is part of the training.

[sunami88]

Originally Posted by James H

Gates and Jobs are pioneers but way more likeable.

Uhhh... Ok, look, Steve Jobs was a genius and a visionary, but he was a massive ****head and didn't care who knew.

Citation:
https://www.cultofmac.com/2613/steve...-the-pictures/
Oh, and for a lot more, see https://www.google.com/search?q=steve+jobs+jerk


Steve Jobs was a career ****head; Elon Musk is more like a whiny teenager. I'm not necessarily saying that makes Musk more likeable overall, just that "likeable" as a moniker should not be applied to Jobs in any way ever...


Rant over. Sorry, I'm more of a techie :P

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by sunami88

Uhhh... Ok, look, Steve Jobs was a genius and a visionary, but he was a massive ****head and didn't care who knew.

Citation:
https://www.cultofmac.com/2613/steve...-the-pictures/
Oh, and for a lot more, see https://www.google.com/search?q=steve+jobs+jerk


Steve Jobs was a career ****head; Elon Musk is more like a whiny teenager. I'm not necessarily saying that makes Musk more likeable overall, just that "likeable" as a moniker should not be applied to Jobs in any way ever...


Rant over. Sorry, I'm more of a techie :P

I have worked in manufacturing for 30 years. Everybody can rest assured that the higher up in a company somebody is the bigger ****head they are likely appear. That is one of the reasons they got where they are I suppose. People judge the celebrity CEOs by their public persona which may or may not be what they are really like in "real" life. They don't really care if they are "likable" to the public but they do want to make sure they are known and what better way to be known than to stir up shit?

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by James H

According to Elon Mucus, if you don't buy a Tesla, you may as well be riding a horse. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/23/elon...g-a-horse.html


I think a lot of people don't mind EVs, it's just Musk they don't like.

Read closer. He's saying buying another brand is like buying a horse because because others don't have "full self-driving" like Tesla, not because other cars are not EVs. He thinks it's a bad financial decision to buy another brand, since nobody will want your used car that you have to drive yourself.

His analogy is stupid because it's exactly backwards. Horses are self-driving. A car that can drive itself is more like a horse than one that can't.

[Rampage]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

His analogy is stupid because it's exactly backwards. Horses are self-driving. A car that can drive itself is more like a horse than one that can't.

Well said. That is exactly what I was thinking. As someone who owned horses in his earlier days and who's daughter still owns one. I can attest to the fact that you can fall asleep on a horse and he will take you back home safely 99.5% of the time.

Unfortunately, horses can also be a bit glitchy and react badly to an unexpected situation like seeing a snake, getting stung by a wasp or being startled by a kitten unexpectedly emerging from a hayfield (personal painful experiences).

Hmmm, based on some of the mishaps with the Tesla self driving cars, I guess the horse analogy still holds.

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Everybody can rest assured that the higher up in a company somebody is the bigger ****head they are likely appear. That is one of the reasons they got where they are I suppose.

My job as an auditor has put me in direct contact with board members, CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CTOs, COOs, CAEs, corporate secretaries, controllers, EVPs, SVPs, RVPs, VPs, AVPs, partners, directors and managers of all flavor. My experience has been that executives are pretty much like the rest of the population. Some of them are supremely competent or even visionary. Some of them are absolute morons. Most are on the spectrum in between, just like the rest of us.

From what I've seen, the big factors in success seem to be competence in and knowledge of one's field, business acumen, psychology/social skills, work ethic and luck. I would put luck at 60% to 70%. Not just the luck of being in the right place at the right time during one's career, but the luck of being born into the right circumstances and all the luck that comes after that. The rest of it is training to be able to take advantage of that luck when it presents itself and having the work ethic to do what needs to be done.

Complete assholes can be lucky and have enough of the rest to be successful too.