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Manuals can make boring cars fun.

My diesel manual Chrysler Voyager? If that had a four-speed auto, I wouldn’t touch it with a 20-foot pole. With the five-speed? It’s epic!

If we’re talking manual versions of common Fords, the Taurus MT-5 wagon has to be the Holiest of Holy Grails.

It’s too late. Everyone now knows that “Holy Grail” = rare manual version of mundane car.

“...or break down near Minneapolis...” This guy is clearly one of us. He knows Tracy’s reputation well enough.

Good for him and he seems to keep is clean as the salt and potholes of the Minneapolis area are very hard on cars.

I cannot agree with such a broad statement. I’ve borrowed at least some money for every vehicle purchase over $10K in my life, because I have good credit and liquidating investments to sink cash into vehicles is generally poor financial decision making.

I leased an eGolf for several years, and it was so impressive that I bought a Bolt when the lease ran out. Because I get free charging at work, my biggest expense was literally running it through the car wash. (Ignoring the obvious expenses of the lease and insurance.)

Your double-bedded truck idea was one of the first things I read after finding Jalopnik, and as a truck guy I was instantly in love with it. When Bollinger first put out their designs, I thought, “That’s amazing, somebody put Torch’s double-bedded truck idea to use, and then made it even better with the pass-through!”…

I’m not sure if they still do, but for the longest time, their website implied that the roof cost the same amount as a new regular shingle roof.

You know, I have to imagine panel gaps are a pretty serious issue on a roof.

While hydrogen is very inefficient on a per-liter basis, in theory it should be very efficient on a per-kilogram basis. A gallon of even liquid hydrogen doesn’t pack much power, let alone a gallon of gaseous hydrogen, but that gallon will weigh next to nothing.

lol the “how it works” video looks pretty much the same as any gasoline engine, they just changed the injector spray visual with some glowing blue gas.

I’ve been using Muskitos, since their whining is just as annoying as the bugs’.

1:05 in.

Follow up: 35 minutes in, this dude is insufferable. 

I’m 10 minutes in, and I’ll try to watch the whole thing, but this dude is so cringey. You’ve done great so far. 

wooosh

So we should keep pointless jobs around that make stuff more expensive for everyone else around, just to keep people employed? I mean, the service jobs that dealerships provide will still be there, along with other value add jobs; but why should we keep a full staff of people who only add cost and friction to the…

Nope, F1 has a maximum fuel capacity of 110kg and must have at least 1kg left at the end of the race. Most teams don’t even fill up all the way because there is a maximum fuel flow rate and the engines are so efficient that the additional weight isn’t worth it. Other than that, no changing reserve rules based on…