Some who cannot afford the performance version of their favorite car will instead build a sort of replica of that car from a lesser model. That’s called a tribute car, and they can be cool! But there is one Tribute that is not that kind of tribute.
Matt wrote a Morning Dump that had a story about the Lamborghini Revuelto Miura 60° Homage. He then asked about the best and worst tribute cars. Username Loading….:
I think Mazda made a Tribute to the Ford Escape or something like that.
It’s Pronounced Porch-ah:
It’s not the best car in the world, it was just a Tribute.
Y2Keith:
It couldn’t Escape the stigma of the original.
Carbon Fiber Sasquatch:
Best tribute car? It’s gotta be the 2005 Ford GT right?
Matt also wrote about how our site has been wonky lately. MrLM002:
Also the Galpin Auto merch site is having payment processing issues.
Tried to order the Stainoflage shirt in my size and it wouldn’t accept my card, meanwhile my bank has no record of my card getting declined, so seemingly is the issue on your end.
Abdominal Snoman:
Can you post your card number, cvv code, and zip code for easier troubleshooting?
(Please don’t do this.)
BB 2 wheels > 4:
Wow, don’t you need their social as well as mother’s maiden name?
Abdominal Snoman:
I’m just trying to get some gas and pizza, not a mortgage.
Peter got silly one day and moved the upper deck of a Boeing 747 to the rear of the fuselage. Sid Bridge:
Let’s not forget the USS Enterprise! That thing had its cockpit in the middle of a gigantic dish that was elevated and forward of the entire fuselage. If they had to land it on landing gear, everyone in engineering would be in for a bad time.
Tekamul:
The guy complaining about the impact of the forebody hump on the transonic drag of the wing has also totally overlooked the far more critical side fumbling induced by capacitive duractance.
This guy needs to go back to turbo encabulators 101.
The reference (click here if you don’t see the embed):
Jason came up with a clever way to make an electric Mazda Miata fun with a mushroom boost button. Toebonian:
Jason, you mean a ZOOM ZOOM button.
Have a great evening, everyone!
Star Trek sucks, Star Wars rules
Was hoping to find a comment here noting the clever Tenacious D lyrical reference in the title of this article. Or am I just imagining it?
First COTD! Well, part of the thread. I guess I am taking the day off to celebrate now!
It’s all you can do, really. How will you spend the award money?
buy another bike!
Sid, the Enterprise wasn’t rated for atmospheric flight. This was aptly demonstrated by Captain Kirk II when he crashed into the ocean in the worst Star Trek movie ever; Into Darkness. On the other hand, he also hid the Enterprise under an ocean on an alien planet in the same movie.
On the other hand, the USS Voyager could land on planets but I’m not sure how those tiny landing struts supported the ship.
I think a technical manual went into details on that voyager thing, there were anti-grav generators that did the bulk of support?
With enough Star Trek technobabble, anything is possible.
Voltaire sang it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwhAq3F8NCE
ETA: NSFW Warning for Explicit Lyrics
Thanks for that.
Any vessel able to fly can traverse atmosphere. Maybe not very quickly….
Is traveling through space really flying though?
Or possibly too quickly
The landing struts were made of gold pressed latinum.
(Don’t tell the Ferengi)
“Dear Lord, that’s over 150 atmospheres of pressure!”
“How many atmospheres can the ship withstand?”
“Well, it’s a spaceship, so I’d say anywhere between zero and one.”
Plot magic
My understanding is that the Tribute is actually a tribute not to the Escape, but to the former Navajo, as a response to said tribe’s concerns about usage for car name.
Always great to see my low quality shitposts rewarded! Thanks!
Ditto.
Lunar wayne shaft will not easily be forgotten…
I still smile when I rediscover the Turbo Encabulator. My grown gear head sons will occasionally throw out things like “hand me that dingle arm” or “whats the torque on the grammies?”
The missile knows where it is…
Very good! Reminds me of Cricket.
The way that guy gets thru that whole script of nonsense words, not just smoothly but convincingly, is just astounding.