I agree on the crap radio in some markets. I think I may have been spoiled by good morning shows and stations in the various cities I lived in. 92KQRS/93X in Minnesota, Todd & Tyler Radio Empire in Wichita, Dave & Chuck the Freak in Detroit. Now that I'm in Chicago, there's all of 1 decent alternative station and a…

As requested.

Jason, in the other article, AOTD I believe, I think we did HP/($ * kip) to make the numbers reasonable. Kip is shorthand for kilo-pound (1000 lbs) which is sometimes used in engineering.

Not enough people driving cars that require you to row your own gears.

Hardly. This was no "'Murica! F*** yeah!" comment. All of the cars listed are respectable classics. Lets, face it, many American economy cars are absolute shit. That's why I suggested the Gremlin. It could be that, or the Pacer, or Pinto, or Chevette, or a plethora of other awful models to come from the American auto…

it would be funnier with an AMC Gremlin:

COTD nom!

Is this a "curtains matching the carpet" joke?

same

It's entirely possible. It's just one more annoying piece of government mandated crap that I was perfectly capable and equipped to handle the same function of.

The image I searched said Aston Martin DB9. I think they use the same cluster in a bunch of cars because they complain about the same thing in the Vantage. My uncle's DB9 has that cluster and it was a good thing that I was driving it at 5 am on a Sunday with no traffic because on multiple occasions I looked down to…

Then there's this bullshit. Needle movement is barely perceptible when driving at some velocity that isn't well above the speed limit.

The A380 wouldn't be FAA approved if it didn't have rotor burst protection since they need to demonstrate compliance with FAR 25.903(d)(1). If they decided that it's structurally insignificant in the event of rotor burst then they don't need to reinforce it but AC 20-128 provides design guidelines for compliance with…

what you describe is rotor burst. Portions of the fuselage are actually "armored" or have increased strength to deal with that specifically.

They can do different things to increase drag to burn fuel faster. Flying at a higher angle of attack, flaps deployed, etc.

I could have an older generation of the system ('08) but mine didn't even alert me when I actually had a flat tire. It was during one of the few times it was actually "working" (i.e. not a false positive) and I pulled into a gas station, did my usual walk around. One tire looked like it was squatting so I grabbed the…

Insect intelligence is still largely unknown to us.

Audi doesn't use the ones that read out the actual air pressure. I can personally attest to how poorly their system works. When I got my A4, there were no warning lights. within a week the TPMS light came on, I checked the pressure, 35 psi all the way around. I assumed the light would go off, it didn't. I messed with…

Would I want to be in a 40 mph crash in an Astro Van? No. Would I want to be in a 40 mph crash in any car from the late 80s/early 90s? No. The Toyota Sienna was totally new for the 1998 model year (a few years after the test was implemented) so of course it's going to do better than a vehicle that was designed over 10…

I guess it's kind of hard to respond to 2 replies but I get where you're coming from. To me, it's apples and oranges when you test an 80s design to a 1995 test. It was the middle of the life of the Astro but the end of the life of the platform (if that makes sense? It should have been redesigned to meet the test). You…