This. You don’t want to be standing in the line of fire when this goes off. My E34 overheated due to a faulty fan coupling on a jam-packed autobahn. I waited for a quarter of an hour and thought that would be enough. I miracolously failed to get scalded (just ruined my shoes) but the radiator cap shot several meters…

You don’t want to put a strain that requires three extensions on a ratchet. Sturdy as they may seem to be, their innards are quite delicate and only intended to bear the load one can muster with his/her arm. Do yourself and the ratchet a favor and use a rather solid connection, i.e. a slide.

It should be noted that normally press cars are already purpose-built, i.e. they are selected from the production line, stuffed with sound-dampening material and fine-tuned before being delivered to the shrimp eating journaille.

Great clip! But I got to object to the bit where the DKW Munga was described as “a copy of the US Jeep”. Sure, the Jeep was a important step in the evolution of 4WD cars and the name is often used as a generic term. Nevertheless, DKW (which was part of Auto Union) had their own experience in constructing off-road…

This is also a phenomenon here in Germany. IMHO in the olden days, people were buying their cars for themselves from their hard-earned money, so they chose a color to their own personal liking (Orange was THE color here in the 70s). In addition, cars were kept longer and their worth was lower, when they were sold…

You want to avoid scratched surfaces, drawers sliding/falling out or cupboard doors opening themselves while literally moving the furniture?

We have a similar event here in Northern Germany, the Bremerhaven “Fischereihafenrennen”, literally “Fishing harbor race”, but even in German it is mostly called “Fishtown Race”. Until a few years ago, parts of the track were still paved with cobblestones. Racing classes go up to Superbike.

Wouldn’t call it perfect with the deployed rollbar ... or is this some NHTSA-bullshittery?

its ... cheap pricing structure...

Boney M was the 70s version of Milli Vanilli - they too were produced by Frank Farian who in this case provided the male vocals himself. Bobby Farrell was cast as dancer and as a stand-in to lip-sync the vocals.

Hey, calm down. I drive a BMW and still I am positive that a lot if not most other BMW drivers are asshats.

Cooling. The low drag configuration increases air flow to the brakes. Since heavy repetitive braking normally doesn’t occur in sustained low drag scenarios, the drag management (tehee!) closes or reduces the open surfaces.

That’s exactly the bullsh#t that has lead to engine failure being the most frequent reason for major break downs in modern cars (at least here in Germany). Unrealistic test procedures for fuel consumption combined with over-the-top masturbating marketing departments and so-far-removed-from-reality-that-Voyager…

The Passat 32B optionally came with AWD. Albeit dubbed “Syncro”, which is VW-speak for a viscous coupling, the 32B had the more complex and more effective “Quattro” drive train from its Audi brethren. It featured permanent AWD with lockable center and rear diff.

Great article! I considered myself a warbird nut but I did learn about the Me 323 just a couple of years ago. Would be interesting to know what a difference a use of the Me 323 Gunship would have made, were it deployed in the same way as a AC-130 nowadays.

Did anyone else misread the headline as “Switch Hitler”?

Ooooh, how I love the Bronco! Up until the 90s, the Luftwaffe-Broncos (OV-10B) were based in our town at Lübeck-Blankensee (LBC - the airport itself has an interesting history) and did flak target towing duty for the shooting range at Todendorf on the Baltic Sea coast. The characteristical twin sound was easliy…

This!!! Definitely my first thought, too!

Hm, should be not much of a thing to put an Explorer-4.0-V6 in it. The whole Cologne-V6-family started as engines for Ford Taunus/Cortina and Granada...