News flash: A city creating an artificial protectionist economy with “medallions” is NOT capitalism.

How the hell did somebody shoot themselves outside of city hall? I thought guns were illegal in NYC?

Ohioan here: I don’t give a fuck what it costs, it’s fucking New York City. They and their rich cocksuckers can afford it. Civilized societies treat their waste water. It ain’t hard.

The Japanese are way better at it than anybody else, but it’ll be expensive to fix regardless.

Those smarty-pants CEOs couldn’t use a covered trailer, or didn’t think of reducing the AOA on the Viper’s wing while towing it? Hmm.

Subarus are inexpensive in the first place, and tend to hold their value. Newer ones have solved most of the reliability problems of yore. Overall, they’re pretty solid choices for the long term.

Digressive damping is a magical sombitch. The “digressive” part means that that damping gets softer as input velocity increases, as opposed to stiffer which is the old school (and more logical) way of doing it.

What that means is that low-velocity inputs such as body roll, squat, and dive are all stiffly damped, while…

Well it’s just plain inefficient to stand there and waste time while you chug a bottle of water. I thought Japan was all about efficiency?

Dash-8s and Caravans are quiet compared to the little Mitsubishi turboprops. There are several airplanes out there running Garrett turboprops, which have geared propellers. They’re mechanically connected to the turbine, unlike the super common P&W engines. I can tell that the Bear’s props are geared as well, mostly…

Why hasn’t Chris Harris been given the hot seat in a proper F1 or WRC car yet? He’s got the passion for driving required to truly become excellent. Somebody needs to push his buttons.

Arguable. Those are all homologation specials. The F1 was designed as a street car first and modified into a race car.

What’s happening is related to brake bias, drivetrain momentum, and the general fact that locked brakes require less distance than ABS in snow.

Clearly you don’t understand economics.

Probably the best way to not get your nice clothes dirty by working on the car is to change into shitty clothes before you start working on the car, instead of writing a stupid blog post about it.

What about Lincoln? If I were in the market at the moment, I’d be shopping the CT6 and Continental, and from my experience I’d choose the Continental. I realize many people care about brand identity, but I don’t. My experience with German cars is annoying ergonomics and unreliability. But I do think a big luxury car…

Are there not fantastic folks in America?

The whole purpose of America is freedom of expression. Unfortunately, that mission went awry many decades ago, and now people are just assholes and want to control the decisions of everyone else. I don’t get it. Most Americans are act in very anti-American ways but for some…

When a local pizza guy wrecked into my car in Brooklyn a few years ago (and ran from the scene, returning about two hours later as the cops sat there and waited on him) they didn’t even put the incident report in their computer system. I had no insurance recourse. In the future, I won’t get in their way, but I won’t…

I’d say not likely. Besides the plates (which can theoretically be swapped) we already know the car in question does not have an LSD, which means it’s very unlikely to spin both wheels from a stop. The other wheel didn’t even grab after he got rolling.

The cop was in the process of getting run over by a car. You should be applauding him for NOT shooting his weapon. He showed immense restraint after almost dying when he still had a chance to try and stop the car. He did good work with what he had, and luckily his radio call means that the entire city was looking for…

Yeah? It wasn’t their problem. What are they supposed to do, act the police officer and block traffic and walk onto a highway to see if anyone got hurt and cause an even bigger scene by doing those things? No. A driver’s job is a drive. Emergency services exist to take care of emergencies.