Sounds like my local Saab-Cadillac-GMC store that always took three visits to fix any problem: one to diagnose and tell me they have to order the parts, another to install the parts and break something else in the process and a third to fix whatever went wrong on the second visit. As soon as the car was out of…

So here’s the problem with owning a 900 these days: certain SAAB-specific parts are no longer available making it very hard to keep it on the road. One part in particular is the rubber bellows that hold the in-tank fuel pump in place. They were created before ethanol gas and don’t tolerate it well. Eventually, they…

Put your order in as soon as possible and expect to wait. Took me 10 mos to get my Mav EB. Hybrid production is severely constrained and way oversold so the likelihood of them even being able to offer a PHEV version is iffy until 2024 at least.

My recent experience on Amtrak was quite the opposite. Back in September, I took the train from Williamsburg, VA to Philadelphia, on a Saturday, to pick up the Ford Maverick I ordered. The train took six hours (driving would have taken 5) and cost me a grand total of $39. Other than the slow Wi-Fi, it couldn’t have…

So let’s just say that I’m very familiar with the NASA program through my colleagues, area-adjacent technical work and education. You’re right in your understanding of what the X-59 is trying to do with it’s shape in making the pressure ‘disturbance’ less abrupt which changes the acoustics from the characteristic…

For me, the best-looking, new BMW is the Toyota Supra and it’s no beauty either.

Some might not, but should. How do I know? My friend makes a decent amount of money selling a plastic gear for BMW transfer cases used in X5's and X1's. When you don’t replace all the tires, the rotational speed difference between axles can cause the system to repeatedly engage/disengage the transfer case. Eventually,…

This test isn’t looking to put open fan on the A380. The 380 is just being used as a testbed to evaluate the technology. Pratt and Whitney and GE both have  747's they can use for this type of thing. GE’s must have been busy or maybe they wanted to use an Airbus plane for political reasons because of Safran.

I’ll see your 65mph and raise you to 184!

The only explanation for that is something I learned in an HPDE school at Road Atlanta: If you keep staring at the thing you don’t want to hit, odds are you’re going to run right into it. Always look where you want to go and you’ll be much more likely to get there.

From the Hyundai website: ...sold at select Hyundai dealers in AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, LA, MA, MD, ME, MO, NC, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, TX, UT, VA, WA, and WI...

Call me a success story for Liberty Media then. In the previous 10 seasons of F1, I watched maybe three races but got hooked on DTS from Netflix. This year, I’ve watched every practice, qualifying and race so far and was genuinely mad that ESPN had tech issues with the race stream in Australia and didn’t get it fixed…

The noise levels cited by the residents seem implausible if one looks at the noise maps around Miami’s airport:

The graveyard from the Aston Martin Vulcan.

To Our Friend Doug Demuro,

My wife’s 2006 Ford Freestyle started flashing it’s airbag light a month before it was due for an inspection. The wisdom of the Internet suggested a bad seatbelt latch or airbag module so I scheduled a visit to the local dealer to investigate. To prepare, I disassembled the center console to make it easy to reach the…

FYI, it is not a Ford-only thing. When shopping for our last car (3-row SUV to replace a totaled out Ford Freestyle), I was overjoyed to discover such a keypad to be a $150 option for the Chevy Traverse! Granted, the GM version wasn’t as nicely integrated and had a cheap ‘add-on’ look to it, but it got us one of the…

Now that I’ve seen and heard some of the videos, I’m fairly confident that the noise is due to oscillatory vortex shedding from the vertical bars. This link explains the phenomenon and its relation to the non dimensional Strouhal number which predicts the frequency of the noise based on wind speed and diameter:

Scale models might create noise under similar conditions but the frequencies would be higher due to the scaling. It is conceivable THAT noise was ultrasonic and not heard during testing so nobody would know they had anything to fix. Probably didn't bother to test it though.

Nice article. This happened to a friend of mine with his wife’s Charger SRT8 that I know for a fact was probably the best maintained one in existence. He is meticulous about everything and his mechanical skills are exceptional (resume includes a body-off ‘70 Road Runner 440 restoration and conversion to Megasquirt FI…