Maybe having ice caps isn’t “normal”. Maybe a hotter, more humid (in parts) Earth is “normal”. Not that it would be good for us, or a lot of animals that have evolved for the past few million years. But it does appear to have spent a lot of time much hotter than now.

Your car will start if you don’t have the clutch depressed? I have to go back to my Starion for that.

Do Chryslers still have parking brakes?

An acquaintance thought the best evasive maneuver on his low Harley, was to try to go under the moose. That didn’t work so well. We weren’t sure he was going to make it for over a month. When he started recovering, his first mission was to restore his bike. His motivation in PT was to ride his bike once it was…

That makes it even more appropriate.

Well, the show’s presenters are kind of 80s. Aren’t they also in their 80s, themselves? Wasn’t that part of the show’s charms?

The whole show seems limited by what Evans...a spoiled, priveleged, wealthy, pompous, overblown, whiny, vomit-headed piss weasel...is willing to do. Which generally involves no getting of hands dirty actually trying to wrench or do anything else, and expecting respect from his lessers.

He was best known on Top Gear for…

You have a gun, sooner or later you have gun problems.

Even for homo sapiens sapiens, documented history and history through archeology, is a fraction of our species existence. The earliest remains of humans dates back 190,000 years, anatomically modern humans about 40,000 years. We don’t really know shit about what humans were up to most of our existence (other than a…

The UK might not be in the EU. But they can negotiate trade agreements. And standards agreements. And essentially set up the advantages of EU membership, one piece at a time. Probably with a worse deal.

Essentially, as long as you can’t figure out how to have free speech and ban political speech that is outright lies,…

$140 million doesn’t seem like much to work with. The newest light rail line in LA cost us $2.5 billion. And that’s hardly a city wide transportation solution.

Ford makes some great engines, but their auto/DCT transmissions are horrible compared to say a GTI.

Demolition Man seems eerily prescient. And the answer is fast setting crash foam.

You could save even more money by replacing the AC unit, etc., and having a solar energy system.

But you know what’s going to use up a lot more power than those things combined? Charging a car with an 85 kWh or higher battery.

An independent power system has other benefits. Energy independence from the grid. No…

America was built on men like Musk. Bigger than life industrialists. Men who could change the world. Or the way the world saw things. Men who could create their own alternate future. It’s weird to still see this, when most new wealth is being generated by pixels instead of atoms.

I would put pretty good odds of an…

I don’t know the cost of many track cars, but I know pro rally cars go for around $500,000. A factory track ready Focus ST went for something like $100,000. And they left the “Tune” up to you.

Although it does still need specific compliance to drop into an existing race class, apparently.

Auto racing at this level, is…

I realize you left out PT Cruisers, because it’s advice that should not be needed. But if you’re thinking of buying one. Don’t. If you’re still thinking of buying one, put aside money to buy a new PCM/ECU.

I think this should be extended to apply to any Chrysler produced vehicle. They are all terrible used except the…

Does that shifter automatically engage the parking brake when in Park? Or is the parking brake still driver settable?

If there’s a driver settable parking brake, this problem should be irrelevant. I’m of the belief that there is never a reason to use “Park” alone without the brake that has “parking” in its name. If for…

In the ‘70s, a local tire place, a junk yard and British motorcycle mechanic (I’ve never been able to come up with a good joke) that I went to, all three had old V-8s where half the engine ran, half was used as a compressor. The Britbike guy didn’t need that big of a compressor, but he had a big tank that might have…

I think the problem with a group lease, is the problem of group insurance for the vehicle.

Also, I won’t even lend a car to a friend, under any circumstances. I’ve seen what happens when said friend crashes the car and finds out how much money fixing the car costs, that isn’t covered by insurance. And the fault is…