Trans calibration is one of my number 1 complaints about newer cars with automatics. Also, the Versa that I drove was just the same kind of shit described here.

Yeah, aside China and India, vehicles in 3rd world countries are actually worth a damn.

"That's not child size, it's the size of a child" -Leslie Knope

I'm normally a pretty mellow person but I had a Versa as a rental while my DD was in the shop; it was the most horrible car driving experience of my life. So bad that I actually started screaming at the Hertz rental guy.

+1 diesel regs are super strict in the US. Everything runs SCR and is incredibly clean.

GM takes horsepower battles pretty seriously. I have no doubt that the ATS-V will make more power than their BMW counterpart.

5th Gear: this is the thing that people tend to forget when it comes to Detroit. All (well, many) of those tooling suppliers (tier 2 and 3) are also in the Detroit area. Before a single car is sold or even made for that matter. All of this tooling has to be built and paid for. This is a huge part of the auto industry…

You are absolutely right to question the situation. In my hypothetical situation, I would fully expect to be brought to court. I'm not a lawyer, nor am I on this case (nor would I want to be) so I will let the courts decide involvement.

Surprised no one's posted this yet:

Not necessarily according to the law. If a pair of criminals break into my house and I shoot and kill one of them (justified under castle law) and the other gets away. The escaping criminal will be charged with his buddy's murder even though I pulled the trigger.

I always love these high alpha shots.

Here's another good one.

Or trash talking their beer a la Canadian Bacon.

I love these GIFs. Makes me laugh every time.

Wow. Just, wow. I have done the same thing with the brake but never with such a dramatic conclusion. Glad you're ok.

No worries, I'll jump into the fire and correct them. I feel like this a lot:

Yeah, Cusco has been rallying one practically since they came out.

Who doesn't love seatbelts?

You know how normal glass breakes. Toughened glass stays in one piece, or if things get more serious, does its best not to cut you.

I can throw all kinds of great race engine examples out there but I won't because you can't really compare a race engine to one in a road car. Ok, I will give one example, NASCAR engines make around 850 hp on 60 year old tech, naturally aspirated. But race engines are designed only to live on the race track. Outside…