The kids from the daycare were on the sidewalk when the burnouts took place.

It’s a fucking public street, not a dragstrip. When you’re an adult you might understand. Thankfully you have an adult editor who made you add in that paragraph towards the end.

Sometimes there are applauses at funerals, other times there are car stunts. What died there, was the good taste.

I’m guessing maybe they are taking advantage with a trailer to put some framework up and get a pitot tube array going? It would give them a good idea of how the aero of the truck could be improved.

First of all, this was not some sort of “Cars and Coffee” event that you might bring your kids to. This kind of “event” is an occurrence that happens in shitty neighborhoods, and usually at night. YouTube posts of these kinds of gatherings will have you wondering why this doesn’t happen every night. The cars involved…

Drove straight into the crowd with the steering at full left lock and the brakes locked.

beyond the horror of the outcome... what was the driver actually doing? seems like he just drove straight into the crowd, not like he was in they typical out of control mustang skid.

Yeah, the clutch can only manage discrepancies in speed between the engine and the transmission’s input shaft. But during a gear change, there’s a difference in speed inside the transmission between the input shaft and the output shaft when you move from one gear to the next. It’s the synchronizer’s job to ease that…

Pick a gear and then match your revs to fit your speed is a much shorter article and video.

Fun fact:

He goes on and on about clutch wear but doesn’t even mention the syncros? Clutch wear from shifting gears is almost non-existent. You really found a great transmission expert to teach us about skipping gears.

As someone who has sold well cared for cars and then seen those cars around the neighborhood, I would tell you that it was heartbreaking to see “my” old car getting the living shit wrung out of it by the new owner. Should the new owner be worried about that? No, it’s their car.

But if it were me I would feel terrible…

I generally agree with this, unless it’s some sort of museum piece. If you have a 1 of <10 car that future generations will want to see, you should at least keep it clean and safe. Drive it, and drive it hard (mechanical items can be fixed), but don’t street park it in NYC.

Wife and I were hauling a queen sized bed set on the roof of our Oldsmobile right after we moved to PA. It was night, we had the hazards going, both our phones plugged in, and radio on. Electrical system couldn’t handle it and fried the pigtail off the positive battery terminal. We ended up stuck in the middle of the…

The point is, if you were to march out today to pick up your new $35,000 Tesla, you’d be marching back home empty-handed. Because there is no $35,000 Tesla. Not today, and probably not this year. And if and when you do eventually located one, sometime in 2018, it likely will be a completely bare-bones model.

That is quite a misleading title. It’s like saying that the base price of a BMW 3-series is $45,000 because the 335i exists.

We ran out of gas in a VERY bad neighborhood in New Orleans... We saw the gas station, but couldn’t get to it from where we were, so had to make a loop. We went a touch too far, and got in to a really bad part of town that that felt light years from French Quarter even though it was only two miles or so away. Houses…

Looks are still the #1 attribute in car purchases for almost everyone, despite what they say. To paraphrase A Beautiful Mind, there is a mathematical reason the Type R is so ugly. It’s one of the rare cases where fugliness actually transcends subjectivity. If I have to say something nice, I’m curious to see how tuners…

I know which one I want most

My first car ever was a 1986 BMW 528e. I got it without ever seeing the owner. It was apparently owned by a high school kid, and he left the keys in the car for us to look through it and drive it (!). I offered him 400 dollars over the phone and he said to leave the cash in the mailbox (!!). The title was already…