Did you use any oil or butter in your rice? Before or after cooking? Without any sort of fat, the flavors are going to be very muted. I’m wondering if a splash of olive oil might’ve changed things.

The blue stripe between black makes it look like a Blue Lives Matter flag. Because of course.

The AWD in the 2004 was amazing. Understeer by default (like every other car) but you could correct with throttle. She is such a nose-heavy pig that if you throw some power to the back end it breaks out a bit and your understeer becomes a powerslide.

I have daily driven my 2004 R32 since I purchased it new. If it weren’t for the low-profile tires and the shit roads in NE USA, maintenance wouldn’t be that bad. Breaks are so friggin’ huge can’t go lower than 18" though. Most of my large, unanticipated costs are alignment/wheel/tire related. It never stranded me…

Thank you for this. I’d like to point out that your tires START with ~80% Nitrogen (N2). If the O2 is really leaking out, then the percentage will increase as the tire deflates an when you add Air to replace the lost O2, you’ll be replacing O2 with 80% N2.

What FWD car has mid-corner oversteer issues that don’t involve panic breaking? I’ve been in my share of FWD cars and they have all understeered.

I put a “Type R” sticker on my Odyssey.

One that gives accurate information about the vehicle to those who bother to learn. Engine displacement, performance variants and general model info can all be displayed in a very short string of characters.

Grand Theft Auto stone for sure. Nothing stopping me from driving the cats for two months and then selling?

I always figured it was because screen tech is changing so fast and it takes so long to get a car to market that integrated screens were out of date before the car ever saw a showroom.

Philadelphia wasn’t just English Quakers. The city had a sizable contingent of Dutch, German and Swedes. We also managed to get a bunch of Welsh in the suburbs in places like Bala Cynwyd. Other than New Orleans, Philadelphia is the most European of the American cities.

Now let me lend you my car so you can compare a 1990 Nissan to a 2004 VW because they are both (wait for it) R32s!

Needs a cigarette lighter.

It is a Dodge Intrepid. CP at any price. If the breaks caught fire, how well do you think the rest of the car is engineered? No thanks, I will take the bus.

Area under the curve in the optimum revs between lower and higher gears. Low end torque is great for road cars but useless in race cars.

This is a 2004 VW R32. There were 5000 made for the US. Many of them have moved on to auto heaven. Many more have moved on to auto hell (suspension 'improvements', fuzzy headliners, questionable cosmetic mods). I am the original owner and it has 104k miles on it. I drive the shit out of it everyday and my…

I wonder if that is the famous Unicorn Onesie from the Twerk Video. Unfortunately that video was filmed in 1930 so its black and white.... we may never know.

Wookies and my 2004 R32.

Canyonero

My bad, that must've been a later set of HPA mods. The version I read about just eliminated first entirely.