Basically, NHTSA — who do you really expect to get stuck in there? Very tiny people? Puppies? I highly doubt puppes are smart enough to operate the internal trunk latch anyway. So then, just very tiny people.

Now this response makes sense. I wish i knew this 10 years ago in college when my S-10 blew the clutch master cylinder and i had to drive a week at school then 100 miles home to fix it without a working clutch.

For the average consumer I don't really think they care how well the car was inspected as long as 2 criteria are meet:

see, to me that still makes no sense. How do you know when you have the correct engine speed? Is it what the engine speed for the gear would be if it were in gear?

What is the proper way to bleed a cooling system to get all the air out?

i actually watched a you tube video the other day that addressed this. take an empty 5 quart transmission fluid bottle and slowly pour what you drained out of the transmission into it. Keep track of how many times you fill it and math.

What does rev-matching mean when shifting without the clutch? How is it done?

D'oh. I should have know better than to try to concentrate on work while posting.

quiet, hipster.

because

New dad here too. I'm gunna get back to work. That is less depressing to me.

Not much to say about this one. It's a drain pan for $5. Great deal if you need it. [Hopkins Oil Drain Pan, 10QT, $5]

Even among new cars ,factory incentives are clearing out inventory on models just coming in. Classic car-buying wisdom said that the deals are on the left-over model year. I recently shopped a 14' and a 15' Hyundai Elantra, both cars had heavy discounts and the 15' was only a few hundred more than the 2014. Many…

its one of the best things you can put in your mouth...

Some things in life are so terrible, so awful, so delightfully vulgar that they come full-circle, and become great. The movie Starship Troopers, for example, or a Fluffernutter sandwich. Add to the list, then, Rolls-Royce's newest order for 30 Extended-Wheelbase Phantoms, its biggest and most expensive ever.

I'll just leave this here.

Also, If you are merging into heavy traffic that is moving at 15 MPH, dont' speed up to 60, fly ahead of everyone else, and merge in to a spot just big enough for your car 2 feet before the orange buckets.

What does it look like upside-down? If you can't achieve this you didn't try hard enough.

Yes and no. From the rear 3/4 the hatch looks better. From the front 1/4 and the side the sedan looks better. I think its because the hood and nose are a mile long, for absolutely no reason, on the new 3. It makes the hatch look like Ace and Gary's car. This is all I see when I look at a 3 hatch from the side.

It's currently backordered, but this is a fantastic price on a very highly-rated tire repair kit. $46 gets you sealant, a heavy-duty inflator, repair strings, and a lot more. [Slime 70004 Power Spair 48 Piece Tire Repair Kit, $46]