This has been going on at Warren Truck...forever, but it’s the first time I’ve seen an instance get national attention. I was supporting the launch of J1850 on the AN (Dakota) and, one day during shift change, someone crashed a Dakota through the a gate and a column of 15+ Dakota and Rams followed.

I dunno -I’ve owned Busas with aggressive cams and dual exhausts...this sounds like a miss right through the midrange. I could be wrong, but...

This sounds terrible - almost like it is misfiring. I’ve owned several Busas, dual and single aftermarket exhausts, and none of them sounded like that.

Taste vary but, even without interruptions, I don’t care for the Sky coverage. I’ve watched Sky as a supplementary source for years, and it has always lacked the depth and the homey appeal that the Matchett/Hobbs/Diffey/Posey/Varsha/Windor/Daly/Buxton team did. I don’t think that this approach is going to drive…

Excellent post and your observations are spot-on. Chevy, Ford and Dodge have done an excellent job in the area where HD has failed - maintaining the support of core customers while staying relevant to contemporary market needs. Anyone that doubts that HD management has been too dependent on a shrinking market should…

This isn’t a moral issue so much as a legal and operational issue. International law prohibits this kind of harassment and, more importantly, a two meter separation is incredibly dangerous. One wind gust and the Flanker could be drawn into the EP-3 by an Eddy current, similar to a number of other close-maneuver…

“Hell” and “no”, respectively. Even though the Alliance and the Encore helped put me through school (thank you Renault warranty labor guide), I wouldn’t take one of these on a bet. Fun fact: the torsion-rod rear axle needed to be lubricated periodically (read: waaaay too often) with a compound that I’m pretty sure was…

I don’t know if you’ve actually driven a 4C, but the DCT in it is actually one of the bright points on an otherwise mundane car. The exhaust and the shift cut-out make for a cool “bang” upshifting and (especially) downshifting, making it sound more like a race-car more than it deserves. And, for me and most of the…

Chrysler Powertrain, during my tenure there, spent a lot of time and money testing oil and what they found is the difference in oil (and engine) wear between oil types is significant.

Some rare cars need, either by design or by accident, to be preserved. This Miura is a strong counterpoint to the Miura that rotted in a garage parking lot in East Lansing for three years; the tires bald, interior trashed and a disturbing amount of rodent damage. This is the car, or a car, that people will be able to…

I see the point that you and the video are making, and it’s mostly correct. I’ve seen, however, long-term studies (some of which date back to the 50s) that have shown that in some cases mild, uniform carbon deposits actually act as an insulator, reduce combustion heat loss and raising mechanical compression.

I live in Plymouth, and there aren’t plenty of alternatives. The average time that we spend trying to route around a train is twenty minutes one-way, and isn’t even during rush hours. See the aerial views that others have posted - it doesn’t take much of a train to bisect the town and bypassing it means finding one of…

Correct; it’s not there anymore.

Yet another “I don’t like/understand something so it shouldn’t exist” post, along with an ethnic slur. Comment of the day material here...

And yet they sell every one they can make...

Not precisely desperate, but...

Maybe the same people that buy Cayennes; I certainly will because I love Grand Cherokees and this will go nicely with my other cars. These will be a niche product, but I’m reasonably sure that they’re not going to sit around dealer lots and collect dust.

I don’t have time to write a full response, but I wrenched my way through school and owned shops, and most of us owned our own tools because we were paid a certain amount of labor per task (“flat rate”) and increased efficiency from having the right tools at the right time helped me make much more money. There were…

“...just make more Demons”

The auto industry has primarily relied on “security by obscurity” when it came to vehicle networking, and I would humbly suggest that Tesla has created a vehicle ecosystem that is just as reliant with that obsolete strategy as the “dinosaurs” that it criticizes. The risk is made that much higher when Tesla uses…