I’ve been thinking about it, and what I’d like to see from a government owned car company is a Canadian flavoured Kei car. Any car built to the current vehicle standards will be big and heavy, but if the government makes a new class of car that’s smaller, lighter, and cheaper to buy, license, and operate, it could…

Magna has been teasing us with concept vehicles every couple of years, with some powered by CNG, natural gas, PHEVs, or EVs, and some powered with small conventional gas motors under 1L. Magna has experience building vehicles end-to-end so perhaps with some government investment (and perhaps some regulatory breaks to…

I was shopping for a PHEV and my experience was that the 2nd gen Volt just felt like a cheap car. It was tinny and loud, it didn’t handle rough roads very well, and the doors sounded hollow when shut like a cheap K-car. It felt like a $25k car with a $40k price tag. In the end I went with a Ford C-Max because it handle…

My dad never bothered with winter tires since he hadn’t had an accident on all-seasons. When I went away to university, I bought a 5-speed 626 and found some used winters on Craigslist because I thought it would be hard to manage the clutch in a low traction scenario. When I graduated I moved to a large city with…

I think there’s something wrong with that video, Mike. I remember the WC3 characters always looking like the ‘After’ pictures. My nostalgia has no idea where those ‘Before’ pictures were sourced from.

Neutral: I know that this is my ‘90s biases coming through, but all I can imagine is the pinnacle of unreliability that would result from mating Ford transmissions to VW electronics.

One that’s caught me off guard a couple of times is my car suddenly making a grumbling noise and starting to vibrate while on the highway. When it happens my mind always goes to the worst part, thinking that my transmission is about to grenade or that a wheel bearing is starting to go.

It’s real. On my commute yesterday, I saw 2 Mazda3s that were in rough shape. The rust was almost identical between the two that I originally couldn’t figure out how the car I’d passed was back in front of me, but eventually when we hit traffic and slowed down they ended up almost nose-to-tail and it was eerie how…

Why? Is that just an arbitrary standard you’ve set so that you can ‘whatabout’ any criticisms about your personal pollution?

Good news for you then. The IMO low sulfur regulations take effect in January 2020. This will make ships burn low sulfur fuel, down to 0.5% sulfur by weight from the current limit of 3.5%, or else install scrubbers to reduce their emissions to the equivalent of the low sulfur fuel emissions. Ships operating in…

I agree with what you’re saying, but I think the problem is with the feast/famine model of financing video games rather than just shareholder profits. RDR is a bad example because it’s almost guaranteed to set records, but given how expensive it is to finance a game, most studios out there are 1 or 2 flops away from…

PHEVs really mess with that method though. I managed to get 2500 kms out of my last tank of gas and relied on the gas gauge and estimated range readings to determine when it was time to fuel up. If the fuel gauge and remaining range were overestimating by 10L/200kms, I could’ve gotten into a bit of trouble.

People didn’t have an issue with the sandwich itself. The problem was that the only way to keep the hots hot and the colds cold was to serve the burger in an insulated package, a.k.a. styrofoam. People were starting to pay attention to environmental matters in the early ‘90s, including the ozone hole and recycling,…

Bunniesinthe Cucumberpatch.

Such a beautiful car, but oh so technically flawed. I believe it’s one of the only cars ever built that managed to oversteer and understeer at the same time.

Yes please. I find the off-meta games more amusing to watch than games where both teams use meta picks and try to execute better than their opponents. My favorite games of the summer split were the TSM games where Bjergsen brought out the Vel’koz/GLP-800 build.

I hope that the current stuff stays until the end of the season and that CR can still license new seasons of My Hero Academia. I’d hate to subscribe to a new service just to get MHA and I’m really digging SSSS.Gridman this season.

Yes please (though with a mix of SAE J1772 chargers alongside the Tesla proprietary one).

I drive a C-Max with the same design language. I cannot see that window because of the beefy pillar (and even if I could see out, the only thing I’d see is the thighs of pedestrians that are already visible through the windshield). It’s purely an aesthetic window that could be replaced with a piece of blacked out…

One thing to consider is that dashboards are much longer and windows more raked than the examples of cars with window vents you’ve provided. Drivers may be able to reach a window vent on a Fiat 500X from a standard driving position