Whatever my input is worth, I’ve never cared for these kind of articles. I’m all for non-serious presentations of strange and weird information, but this kind of complex, completely false article is just a waste of my time and brainspace. Seems like an actual exploration of presidential limo concepts would’ve made a…

I saw three of these things in one day once. A white, a silver, and a black. That means I saw exactly .5% of the total production within a few hours.

Self looking at used trucks:

You can buy extra miles up front on many leases. We lease my wife’s car with 15k miles per year and it works out Ok. At 15 cents per mile (up front) that would add about $80 per month to the lease. These are figures I just came up with from our specific lease.

Quite frankly the car market is not made up of car enthusiasts. In fact Johann Kister, one of the chief engineers at BMW, is on record of saying and I quote “There was a clear request for less steering effort. No one wants bad feedback—such as a steering wheel that vibrates in response to bumps in the road”.

Many, if not most, new car buyers would be better off leasing. Most new car buyers make a small downpayment that probably covers tax, tags and license and not much more, and then stretch the term out to 72+ months now. With low interest financing available to most buyers, that isn’t a terrible choice. The problem is,…

It’s good, but is it... Baur good?

Why would someone want a bulletproof BMW motorcycle though?

I remember sitting at a transmission shop reading one of their trade magazines and they actually had a retrospective article (several pages!) about how humonguous this problem was in the 80's and how much money it eventually cost Chrysler not only in warranty work, but the education campaign they set forth to stop it.

And they’d have stayed great if every shop in the country wasn’t filling them with incorrect fluids or misdiagnosing solenoid issues.

Almost every day for me in DFW.

This right here is why I read this site. People debating the design and engineering of cargo vans and how that pertains to RACING dynamics of said cargo vans. Just beautiful shit. Lol.

Follow-up personal anecdote, just for fun: 

The cars actually cool less efficiently with the hood open. The flow through the engine bay is carefully modeled, and verified to be adequate, at all road speeds.

This is complete BS on the part of the police union.

Well most of my knowledge of police protocol comes from Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit II so I’m pretty sure the helicopter comes in by the time you unlock the Ford GT.

My boss often flies in and out of work. It took a long time for it to even mildly age.

The best off roading scene in history

Customer: But it worked with a Land-Rover!

From what I understand, Superbirds were sort of rushed to showrooms in order to meet production requirements for the stock car racing season - the reshaped rear window involved some reworking of the roof’s bodywork, so they covered it in vinyl as a quick fix. It was simpler and brought costs down, since there were…

I’ve heard something similar of the Plymouth Roadrunner Superbird’s vinyl roof - it was cheaper to cover the seams and body-filler in the roof area with vinyl than it was to finish and paint the roof.