On a ship, the head is the the compartment containing the shitter. I don't see a toilet anywhere in this video.

6-10% Jalop. CVTs kill your score, man.

"Levorg" sounds like a line of pots and pans from Ikea. Better to call it "Geoff".

Imagine how much worse this would have been if it wasn't up north, where people know how to drive in the snow?

Also, I wonder if the EPA test cycle uses E-10? Certainly that was what was used by the Ward's testers...

When is the EPA going to redesign the test loop for fuel economy?

shit, I almost always pick the T&C out of the Emerald Aisle. T&C's rock!

I'm popping popcorn and grabbing a beer for all the VW fan-boy excuses that are sure to follow.

And now you begin the sweat phase. Your over-compensating body-thermometer continues feeding heat energy to your pits and crotch, which in turn begin seeping moisture faster than you can remove garments. And then the lady wants to check that you haven't got a bomb in your iPhone and the beads sluice from your forehead…

Not all that interesting, but could be more so if they ditched the thirsty V-6 and introduced a direct injected turbo 4-pot with similar HP and torque numbers but much better economy. This $2 gas won't last forever, y'all.

I want one so bad, but...

My example is actually from one of the furnaces in my house: big fan relays are are soldered to the single IC board that runs everything. Those relays fail and when they do, they damage the board so that you can't solder on a new one. $350 for a new board every couple of years.

It's not just that it's so much easier and cheaper to mass-produce parts that never can be fixed. Here's a story on why a rebuildable alternator was a great idea even if car makers want you to buy a whole new part now every time some small replaceable part wears out.

They served a purpose and made no harm. Just ask this guy!

Six or seven years ago, I wanted a Tacoma crew cab so bad. Then I realized the V-6 crew cabs didn't get appreciably better mileage or cost all that much less than the larger, more capable and better looking F-150. I never got either one, but I will very likely purchase the Ford in the next year or so. The new Tacoma…

Lost me at "lowered". Ninety nine percent of the time lowered means "looks good, drives bad". NP stock, CP as is.

Tell that to the 700 workers who got laid off from US Steel yesterday. Reason? No one is buying pipe for oil drilling. A recession is coming y'all.

Schlumberger $45 billion annually. Baker Hughes, $22 billion, Weatherford $13 billion, Halliburton $25 billion, to name a few TX companies in oil and gas. Houston has been a job magnet for years. Oil at $35/bbl will trigger quite a recession I think.

Neutral: Cheap Oil Good/Cheap Oil Bad? What's going to happen with oil? Is it a good or a bad thing?

There are no set gears in a CVT, hence the 'continuously variable' name. Adding paddle shifters to a CVT kinda sorta defeats the whole purpose of having one in the first place.