I have about 100,000 miles on a welded diff. Yeah, the car will have more tendency for understeer, especially in tight turns and slippery surfaces (a good hand brake can fix that issue). There really isn’t any need to avoid tight turns. A welded diff puts more stress on cv shafts (solid axle bonus points!), it isn’t…

Back in my day, we’d all drive our 2wd cars out there and hardly ever get stuck no matter what season with our Nokia Hakkapeliitta 09's...

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That’s Gay...

“But I can’t see how that’s possible...” Low speeds, pilots wear seat belts, the crew compartment on the Apache is pretty beefy.

Yeah, when you’re standing in front of the car with your eyes above head light level, the low beams should not look bright! Any light shining on your face is wasted lumens; that light should be shining on the road instead of the tree tops and oncoming cars. The die of an LED is inherently larger than the filament of a…

Thanks, Obama.

There may be eleven gears in there, but I think that is actually a 7 speed transmission, based on the diagram...

To be honest, that’s not far off how much fuel gets used when you plug into the wall...

The skid marks approach from the outside of the track to right next to the inside curb. This suggests to me that the driver was basically in control the whole time and identified something was wrong a long distance before the corner, aiming for the curbing to maximize braking distance before leaving the track surface.…

I seriously doubt that’s 10,000 amps.

Makes me wish more American rally drivers went to one, or two, or three. haha

I don’t think that can really be called a wing. It is completely the wrong shape to provide downforce directly. It is most definitely a spoiler.

Most gas turbine engines these days have at least two shafts that can spin independently. The low pressure rotor is basically a turbocharger for the high pressure rotor, and power is extracted from whatever the low pressure rotor doesn’t use for compression. Nobody would call that two engines. Also, please don’t call…

Good ol’ MPGe... Let’s all pretend that electricity used in EVs came from a gasoline powered generator with 100% efficiency. Seems totally reasonable.

If it is a very gentle hill, neutral may allow the car to maintain speed at idle. In gear it will slow the car, requiring you to accelerate back to speed or apply a small amount of throttle, both of which use more fuel than idling. If the hill is steep enough to keep in gear at zero throttle without slowing, then…

Great article. :)

Mine has been an absolute blast for the past 15 years. It refuses to die!
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And they couldn’t even take the rest of the drive shaft off to just drive it home in FWD. Lame. :)

They took our jobs!!!!

80 MPGe is actually really easy to achieve if you think about it. It would be like getting 80 MPG if you had a magic 100% efficient gasoline engine and a transmission that could couple that magic engine to the wheels as efficiently as with an electric motor. MPGe is a scam of course because (at least from the reseach…