Aerodynamics only really come into play in efficiency at high steady speeds. So if you are rolling on the highway with the cruise control on, then aerodynamic efficiency is working for you. The gains in city driving and normal suburban stop-and-go traffic are minimal at best.

It was pretty common is England at the time to do many things to seize properties and banish “undesirables” for crimes against the British Empire in those days. Its was an unofficial crime to be of Scotch or Irish descent in England at that time and many had properties stolen and jailed for “crimes” including…

Laundering money, racketeering, adversely affecting the housing market for possible gain. So will the really go after the most powerful people who are doing this or merely shine a light under the fridge and close a blind eye on all the roaches they find?

I anyone surprised by this? Really?

And believe it or not, many of them are still standing too!

I can see that if you drive less than 10k a year or so if it benefits you in taxes. Looking over what I can find online for lease rates, the payment on a new Fit or similar class car with the same down is about the same ($250 to $290) as the current lease rates offered for the Volt. I bet the Bolt leases for more than…

This is the old school method of mechanical timing advance. Found in most older car distributors.

Why would you lease unless its your leasing as business entity?

Your idea of affordable and my idea of affordable is a pretty long ways apart. I guess its all relative, its affordable compared to a loaded F150. But more than twice the price of a Fit or other car the same size. It will save you a ton on gas, that you in turn give to the loan provider. So, no thank you.

Life is unbelievably cheap in that part of the world. To the people who make the rules, what’s a bunch of unpaid/undocumented laborers and displaced families worth? To them zero.

There are two in Tulsa I have seen at the local car parking lot get-togethers. A pretty car in person, great curvy lines.

There is a guy in the Oklahoma area with a Wartburgwagen (1950s era German made economy class car) station wagon with an injected SBC setup for drag racing. Saw it once at the Darryl Starbird Autoshow. Very eclectic car to see in middle America much less one built as a drag racer. Occasionally you see the guy with the…

I used to work for Navistar’s school bus plant here in Tulsa. Ford and Navistar split over the engine management system. At the time the Ford system was very complicated with lots of warranty problems and Navistar wanted a barebones engine management system for the typical school bus/commercial truck market.

The biggest problems I saw with the typical GM product, especially their products in the affordable lines was the insistence on low grade materials and engineering the product to do just barely enough, instead of doing well. My mother owned one of the GM compact cars of the 90s, the 1988 Buick Skylark built on the…

Don’t you just love a dashboard covered in the stuff used to line the trunk of Hondas with?

I would guess he blew a right front tire, rim dug in, load shifted and pulled him over.

I think its an outlier based on the fact that you have not given up on it. It amazes me how many of these I see new in Tulsa, Oklahoma daily when you know that 30%+ of the time of ownership is on the lift at the shop.

I did a photoshoot with a Fisker Karma ES a few years ago for a local dealer. It was a cool looking car, low and wide. It did have the fairly wide body panel gaps as described in the article. The door pulls were basically a laser-cut or water-jet cut hole in the door panel with a plastic insert behind it housing the…

I shoot a Nikon D610. You don’t need bag of lenses to get the job done. I use an 85mmf1.4 for portrait and fashion/commercial work. I have a couple of older AIS Nikon manual focus lenses (35mmf1.4 & 50mmf1.4) that I got super cheap used if I need a wider view but rarely ever use them for the work I normally do. If I…

There is a reason why taxi cabs have a divider between passenger and driver. And when you deliberately go to pick up moronic drunk people, you have to expect that some percentage are going to be violent “likes-to-fight-guy”.