When someone shows you what they’re made of - don’t argue. 

I have always aspired to own a Ferrari one day. I attribute this to Magnum P.I. in my pre-teen years. The 456 GT is a beautiful car - this one is a NP all day. I’d destroy the value of the car by driving the absolute shit out of it and maintaining it myself, but I’d have fun doing it.

The fact that people buy these…

Does this include people driving recklessly to do car-related videos, without taking the necessary precautions like closing the street and getting permits? Videos that are routinely featured on websites like Jalopnik? Videos like....say.... the ones from the Smoking Tire and Matt Farah?

Just trying to figure out where…

Cool car and a technological marvel. It’s also violently ugly.

If the Panamera has the factory air-suspension each strut is $3k+. Just the part. Changing the part out can be done in an hour a corner, so ah... yeah. On the flipside, what usually fails in the strut are the two o-ring seals at the top and bottom of the airbag. The seals are like $15 each, and the parts necessary to…

Rear brake job on my Panamera: $1250 at the shop. In my garage? $212

People forget that buying a used $100k+ car for $30k doesn’t mean the cost of maintenance, parts and labor also suffered a depreciation hit. I see a LOT of Panameras in particular rolling around on the bumpstops because the car was cheap but the new owners can’t afford the maintenance.

Having owned about a dozen…

Land Rovers are British - not German.

Lots and lots of missing info here. Most importantly, when doing a remediation and using a fan, you can easily cause a fatal increase in carbon dioxide gas in the home. If there are any gas appliances (hot water heater, stove, furnace...) on the same floor as the radon fan, make sure you’re not creating enough…

I am an ectomorph. I started lifting a year ago, right before covid. Throughout covid, I hit the machines 3-4x a week for a HIT 30 minutes, and ran a 5k on my off days. I quickly plateaued and was not seeing any gains in mass or strength whatsoever, despite eating well and working out. This kept up for about 4…

Holy crap - nice price all day long. I sold my mint condition 93 240 for $6k and that was with 189k on it. Shop around for RUST FREE 240 wagons and then come back here and argue about “no dice”. You could make a grand on this thing by dinnertime tomorrow. 

No, not “generally”. Nowadays, there’s no telling where it is...On the backside of the engine against the firewall. Or on the backside of a head. Or hanging around somewhere else encased in a plastic canister because the entire system is electric. Or inside the engine itself behind the timing chain. The thermostat is…

Yeah no. A thermostat repair is not something the average DIY’er can - or should - be doing on any car made after 1990. Failure to do it exactly correct, and there are about 659 more steps than she mentioned, will destroy the engine. Some t-stat replacements require removing the timing cover and timing belt. Some…

So much bullshit in her post. It’s one of those “look at how smart I am” articles that really just shows people that know what they’re doing how f-ing stupid the author is.

So much terrible, misinformed, and outright dangerous “information” in this article, unless you’re talking about an engine made before 1985. It’s like telling someone that the need to just grab the yoke and steer when flying a plane. Changing a t-stat is far from a simple operation and more often than not - just…

It’s all fun and games until you try and close the clamshell top with anything taller than the roofline

Funny how Jalopnik falls on their fainting couch about this guy and street racers in general but gives douchebags like Matt Farah a pass. 

Back before I had enough money to buy cars outright, I horse-traded a lot of them. One of those trades was a VW bus for a VW Rabbit - thereafter known as “the Wonder Bunny”. That car would turn even the most grizzled veteran of bone-chilling cars white with fear. Why? The body of the Rabbit was sitting on a 72 Buick…

Those sequential tailights were also on the Cougars of the late 60's....

Not that I don’t think Loeffler is a piece of shit, taken in context of the Atlanta-specific Wendy’s crowd, there were - up until yesterday - armed Black men keeping all white people out of the area. They even went as far as attacking white drivers in the area. It was written up in both the AJC as well as Slate. The…