Life is indeed too short to make car purchases based on what other people think. This is why I get annoyed by “you’re not a real enthusiast if you XXXXX” kind of posts...

Best news in ages. I know that the teams acted for their own reasons, most likely financial in nature, but I still applaud them for forcing Bernie and Jean to back-down...

There’s nothing wrong with people not wanting to buy cars based on transmissions. Anyone can see that you’re passionate about these, but this position is really hard to defend.

My *wife* will not accept an automatic equipped car, and neither should anyone else who gives fuck one about actually driving.

I was involved with ECOcar II, and this program is a superb training ground for the next generation of auto industry personnel - and not just engineers. ECOcar team members come from a variety of disciplines, including marketing, program management and quality management. ECOcar participants are often recruited by the…

Go to a BMW dealer and, if you haven’t ridden a bike with a ‘race’ shifting system, secure a test-ride on a bike so equipped. Banging out near-instant up-shifts and down-shifts is a lot of fun, and DSC will simply bring this to a higher level of performance. I think that it would be easy (speaking as an automotive…

Entry-level detectors, and older detectors of any provenance, will indeed produce frequent false alerts in today’s RF environment. Premium detectors, including the Escort MAX360 and late-model Valentine V-1s, are selective enough to rarely false and sensitive enough to detect scatter from other vehicles.

This is a great article and, while I think that many are going to blame the DOT for this, much of the blame sits with the manufacturers. Many cars equipped with filament bulbs use voltage regulation (typically pulse-width modulation of the battery feed) to extend bulb life and manage current consumption, and this…

Read the linked article; there is still a fair bit of the original car there and the owner wanted to start with an actual street car.

The GT-R has, in my opinion, always been a “driver” and enhancing its road manners is probably a good move. The can always offer a NISMO with even greater differentiation if the market demands one...

Using audio analysis to measure engine RPM is a mature technology:

I love your reviews, and this is probably one of the best. Kudos...

I do transmissions for a living, and I think that there are two classes of answers: results and market acceptance. I have no issue adding gears until a point of diminishing returns is reached; weight, cost, packaging and performance with ultimately cap the number of discrete gears on transmissions based on today’s…

I was there as well, and I was thinking that this was the biggest debacle since Indy 2005.

I’ve been a fan of F1 for almost 40 years, and this is angriest that I’ve ever been at the sport. I despise the fact that the racing has become a game of tire and fuel management to the largest extent in the modern era...and now this.

Kudos on fitting an American Gothic horror story intro a car review, with bonus points on the use of “abattoir”.

Get one of these:

“HD trucks” are (presumably) emitting whatever they’re emitting legally...and have you Googled “VW Scandal”? I wasn’t exaggerating...

And I understand that you might not agree with me. This is, in the overall scheme of things, super-trivial but I would like Máté to understand that there are more than two kinds of enthusiasts out there. I wouldn’t have made this comment if I didn’t think that Máté honestly thinks this way.

Read Máté’s previous comments...this isn’t a joke, it’s a rant and has been for a while.