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Originally Posted by freebeard
According to your other posts (I won't quote you back to yourself) you were out chatting up college age girls.
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Yes... Time and place, right?
I found a room to rent five blocks from the building where I have all of my classes--I am currently eight miles away, so I usually spend an hour trying to study on the bus, before walking five or six blocks from the light rail station. When I am running late, I need to drive to the light rail station, plus the room is $270 less a month than my apartment.
One of my new roommates mentioned guys that never graduate just because of co-eds.
Heh. They stay in school on purpose! Getting distracted and failing happens all of the time!
Oh, right...
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Originally Posted by freebeard
IMHO the (never completed?) Renaissance project is backward too. Pragmatically, it consumes orphaned Prius drivetrains and [maybe] improves the mileage of the donor vehicle; but the interesting question to me is: What would you put into the Insight that would improve *it's* mileage. I'm thinking pure electric with supercar performance and 'instant' charge times because of the nano-scale fractal Lichtenberg-figure anodes in the next-gen batteries.
What did you think of the Scuderi Split Cycle engine? A custom crankshaft and camshaft[s] in the stock inline-4? |
Thank you for linking that, I had seen a few references, but had not actually read anything about it. It definitely looks interesting! I tried reading the data, but it was over my head, I wanted to see qualitative differences from standard.
Regarding the transplant, I wondered why he did not just get himself an Insight.
Anyone?
I was thinking that it would be awesome with the full Basjoos treatment, but then, wouldn't an Insight be even better?
I think that the Insight and Prius showed a great deal of innovation, but for Toyota, I think that subsequent improvements have been modest, and Honda discontinued the Insight to come back with a Prius clone?