I will save you all. Believe in me. I'm with the High Command.

I'm sure you're right about fanboys but I'm a fan and also recognize that German engineering is usually overkill and not built for maintenance but some kind of weird empirical perfection. I need a sensor replaced for example, and it costs five hours of labour ($850 plus tax = just under a thousand Canadian bucks!),…

Ha. I worked at a VW dealership for years and our biggest problem was keeping enough parts in inventory.

I think we're at a point in time where "Japanese", "American", "German", "Martian", etc. engineering doesn't even matter anymore.

Having owned both, and having friends who have both:

"we've stuck to our roots and have made our 4.0 v6 even better while sacrificing fuel economy and not upping performance. We also received all your letters asking for a small diesel and we have answered. Fuck you"

I'm going to do it...and you're going to love it! AHEM

I've heard tell that there are concepts in industrial/product engineering called "design for manufacture" and "design for maintenance" which may be at odds with each other. What economic forces could come into play to encourage "design for maintenance" in cars? Different sales/service models, with transferable…

DANGEROUS TRICKS!!!!

"Or picking up groceries on the weekends when you have custody..."

I made use of this in the Rockies last week in my wife's Impreza (non-Wrex). They actually make a lot of sense here. Snow and ice necessitate both hands on the wheel. It's far less gimmicky than one might think.

Navigation/infotainment.

This is really cool, although watching all of those lines move at the same time is hard to follow haha. A clickable point by point, or a pause button would be nice. It is pretty funny about the weight of modern cars and how heavy they've gotten. I've had a few conversations with my dad about his 69 Chevelle where he…

Gonna go old here. Datsun 240Z.

The subsequent discovery in the late 50s or whenever that lead was causing all sorts of problems is also an interesting one. The geochemist Clair Patterson was trying to calculate the true age of the Earth by lead-lead dating, was having trouble eliminating all external sources of lead from his experiments which gave…

Unless I'm mistaken, all of Delta's Airbuses came from Northwest. And this news release from Delta leads me to believe that Delta never modified the interiors of the A319's and A320's when they were repainted (but what the hell do I know?).

I nominate Kansas City International (KCI.) All terminals. Why? They were designed long before post-9/11 security requirements. The terminals are circular in shape, and the way the gates were arranged they had really no central security screening. So groups of gates have their own security checkpoints which were…

Bah, skip the grandma, that isn't the Mercury Panther you're looking for...

http://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/…

Just do this, as is, name and all.

5 cylinder Audi seems like an excessive overhang... most of the engine is ahead of the front wheels.