What do you have to do to get the Focus RS’s 350 hp out of that engine?

I didn’t know anyone seriously expected recovery after a thermonuclear exchange.

Like the Teslas on loan, they’re trying to figure out what infrastructure they will be needing in the future.

Also, for the American Made folks in the comments...there’s no Chevy Volt CUV. Yet.

I don’t think a gardener can take their equipment on public transit. Nor would it be practical. And it’s not like they’re rolling in dough.

Maybe we should finance police departments directly through taxes, with decreased revenues through fine collection considered a meritorious success, with a goal of adherence to laws reaching 100 percent and revenues from fines dropping to zero.

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One of the things I give people are hard time over, is naming their cars. Anthropomorphizing your car sort of gives it permission to be cranky and give you a hard time when it’s in a bad mood. Not an attribute you want in a transportation conveyance.

Do we really want our cars to be anthropomorphized in…

I don’t know about comparing it to Euro luxury brands, but a Plain Jane rental Fusion handled pretty good for an anemic fleet FWD sedan. I would imagine with programmable dampers and AWD, what oversteer there was would vanish. I’d really hope it’s the same AWD they have on the Focus RS.

There’s a pretty good likelyhood…

The Google Car is what I would expect either some future Soviet style Fascist-Socialist government, or dystopian corporatocracy to produce for “the proles” or the “unskilled workers”.

It is as if someone speced the car to be “completely devoid of style and art” and “as embarrassing to be seen in as possible.”

Good luck with that proposal.

I have to admit, that we’ve had great food at every restaurant we’ve gone to around the country, that we’ve seen on Triple D. Which we watch for the food, not Fieri. When we can’t find anything else on TV, MTV is cruelly showing Catfished instead of Ridiculousness, and are too lazy to find the remote that lets us…

I debaged the “Focus” from my Focus ST. Not so much because I don’t want people to think I have a Focus, I mean there’s no way to conceal that fact just looking at it...but because I absolutely HATE the font. My wife also hated it, so at least I’m not a lone loon.

I did leave the ST though. Nobody but another ST owner…

But that would have made a Buick that looks a lot like it’s in the league of a Maserati, looks wise. GM couldn’t have that.

All these years I’ve called it a circlip, which my dad taught me, and he was from the Bronx. I’ve also heard it called a c-clip or Jesus-clip or Jesus-ring.

I heard an old biker refer to a gudgeon pin, and had no idea what he was talking about. Now I understand a story someone told around a campfire 20 years ago.…

Maybe on flat, paved roads. And those things feel like they’re going real fast when they’re going 25 mph. And you really can’t go far on them.

By the time you take a mountain bike and fit it with a motor, frame and suspension that can meet the speed, road surface and distance specs of one of these, you’ll have a…

The batteries are water cooled. But they don’t have to last for years, they just have to last long enough for the mission. And it’s a good bet, a mission where it’s a better idea to use motorcycles instead of trucks for transport, is time critical.

I’m sure the military won’t have a problem adhering to a battery…

For general lightweight quick-transportation of ground troops, I think more traditional ATVs would be the more practical option, at least as far as today’s technology is concerned.

+1 for Southwest whenever possible. We like Alaska Air as well, but prefer the Southwest “pick your own seat” methodology. It gets people seated much faster. Also, the free checked bags reduces the number and size of bags people use for carry ons.

What year did you buy the Datsun? My mom sold her ‘86 Toyota Celica last year for $1000, and it was in running but sad shape.

It’s a running car for $2000. That’s a good start right there.

I drove one of these as a rental car at the time with an I-4. It was nice, and it wasn’t 70s bouncy. While not a car for spirited driving on twisties, it did have the handling of comparable Japanese cars.