I live in a place with actual cold and actual snow - Central Alberta. I never make fun of people in other places who have issues with winter driving. By the time it snows for real here, the ground is usually frozen to about 18 inches deep. That means the snow doesn’t melt when it hits. It packs up and adhesion is…

I still don’t know why anyone wants a fix for what I declare a “feature” of these cars...

And neither of them did character progression/customization as well as GTA: San Andreas, in my opinion. I miss my fat CJ.

I had a different life at the time I bought it: long commutes, lots of long drives for work, and a BMW convertible in a 2 car garage. It was bought with the intent to have it for 100k miles or more. It was also bought used with very low miles - someone else got to eat the bulk of depreciation. I was working at a…

Look, American life > Iraqi life, we get it. But our reasons for the war are what bother me. It was to protect a bunch of brutal dictators from another brutal dictator. Because the ones we protected sold oil on the cheap and could afford to hire us. We were mercenaries, we had no moral high ground. They are cartels,…

Just the response I’d expect. The US is the greatest country in the world and never fucks up. No need to worry about the trigger happy rah rahs who fought for you.

I disagree mostly. What would you expect a company to say these days with everyone wanting to file a lawsuit for everything? How you drive your vehicle will greatly impact your observed fuel economy, and they realize this.

According to how I play Call of Duty, they didn’t throw enough grenades.

Because they only have torque converter automatics. Ba dam pssssh! Jalopnik joke.

1) Yes, I know that.

I admittedly did cross-shop it with a Mazda 3 2.5L and a WRX, but I wanted the better fuel economy when gas was around $4/gal and I didn’t need AWD because I had a 4WD truck. The materials inside the TDI were definitely nicer than both, especially the Subaru; also the Mazda 2.5L is relatively thirsty. The Acura TSX…

Any company with the doors still open shouldn’t be paying a dime for their employees. Employees that keep their job are there to create more value than their salary. Your whole “my girlfriends FJ would be gone if Ford made a comparable vehicle” is an asinine pile of dog shit.

I worked for a major cell manufacturer for a number of years, and there was a similar (but far less extreme) culture against using a competitor’s device. Of course in the lab we had a device or two from each major competitor, but in the limited stint that you actually used the device, people would just let their…

For weekdays at the ol’ parking lot:

MKVI Golf TDI MY2013 owner here:

That’s probably a really fair point. I wonder if the ultralow sulfur diesel would be available in these countries though?

Whenever I see clips of the prequels, I’m astonished to realize that they are even worse than I remember.

When an art history major calls you out on science...

Um, you obviously don’t drive in New York City ever. Tapping cars in front of and behind you is totally expected, and well within the bounds of accepted parking behavior (I have front and rear parking cameras so that I don’t have to do that, but people do it to my car all the time). That’s why you’ll see so many cars…