superfastmatt
Matt Brown
superfastmatt
Matt Brown is an automotive engineer, writer, and builder of unconventional things. Mostly vehicles.

I find it strange where I live driving and talking on a phone is illegal and you get a huge fine for distracted driving. Yet when you look at the cars these days you have a 12 inch screen in front of you and it’s fine. You have to go though ten damn menu selections just to adjust the seat.
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He’s only yelling at the Cloud because that’s where he stored all his important photos, and now they’re not there anymore. Read more

I think it’s just going to come down to the details. Look at the Mercedes S-class compared to the CLA. The CLA looks cheap once you’ve seen the S-class because of the plastic frame around the screen. It’s the same thing happening with performance as cars shift to electric power. It’s easy for an electric car to have Read more

So true!  There are screens everywhere already, and frankly I’m pretty tired of them.  Especially when they replace something like speedometer and tach.  Everytime I sit in a new car with just one flat screen for the gauges it just looks cheap and lazy.  Plus, screens in cars have lousy blacks, making everything look Read more

This is brilliant. If trash companies are intelligent,  they'll use the methane from landfills to generate electricity to charge the trucks. Literal power from trash.  Read more

Wow, I do like that front fender trim treatment. That’s really something. I kind of wish we’d get that sort of stuff on modern motorcycles. Make them look futuristic.
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More content like this please and less preaching about mass transit, Elon-bashing, etc... Read more

It’s hard to compare F1 to NASCAR because NASCAR doesn’t travel all over the globe. It would be as if F1 only raced in the EU. Additionally, the size of each F1 team’s footprint per race weekend is WAAAY larger than in NASCAR, and as a result of the races often being so far apart [Australia to South America, to Asia, Read more

Who even needs autonomous systems when the sheer willpower of Ray Wert can guide thousands of cars? Read more

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This is a youtube rabbit hole I’ve fallen down a time or two. My favorite inline-6 bike noise ended up being a video a Z1300 going around Spa. (That’s not to say the Z1300 sounds better than a CBX, just that this owner happened to hit the sweet of exhaust choice and riding ability)

It’s loud, sure. But like Harley riders, I think you’re confusing “loud” for “good”. Read more

Some see a Plymouth Prowler, I see a scaled up and refined belly tank racer. It’s the 1950's, after all.

My grandfather test rode one when they were brand new. (He owned a CB750.) He said it just lit up the rear tire in the first few gears. Tire technology wasn’t so great back then. Read more

Nowhere does it say the refrigerant has a greater impact on climate change than the tailpipe emissions. It says this: Read more

Agreed most are hideous, but I always thought nuCamp’s graphics were cool for their quirky travel trailers:

This is the best-researched, best-explained and most-surprising automotive content I have seen here. Glorious, and thank you! Read more

I liked Matt Brown’s take. Read more