The specific office referenced was owned by an environmental remediation company in Dallas, TX. I'm currently outside of Boulder, CO though where that sort of amenity is common.
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This is exactly what I've been saying forever! A ten year old nav system is the technological/social equivalent of an 8-bit Nintendo. You see that in a used car, and you just think, "Quaint" knowing it'll never be used (that's what phones are for) and it's taking up precious dash real estate and just one big thing to…
It's not like it was just for me. Even the interns got to use it. Around here, that sort of workplace amenity is pretty common; VP or no. Same with beer fridges and bike lockers.
This was '09-'10. Things were not super great.
I finally got a car (truck actually) with discs up front a few months back, and it'll hopefully be on the road soon. It supposedly has the self adjusting drums, but from some transmission testing I was doing a month or so ago, I can tell you they do NOT work at all. GM has been doing that for quite a while. It even…
1/3- Dallas, yes. >100° and still high humidity (though admittedly probably less than Houston) for three straight months is hardly a walk in the park. I'll grant you Houston is a complete and uniquely awful hell hole (the weather being only a small contributing factor), but it's not very unlike Dallas. I spent a lot…
This 1989 Isuzu Trooper started out as a rock-stock 4-door 4x4 wagon with styling that was somewhere in between the look of the original Range Rover, and that of Jeep's old school Cherokee. This one has had that wagon portion unceremoniously chopped off for a look that's reminiscent of a Chevy Avalanche, Ford Explorer…
Drums actually have more swept area and are better at stopping. The advantage discs have is that they auto adjust where drums get out of adjustment as they wear. I do agree that cars should have discs front and rear standard though since 99% of people don't or won't adjust their drums on a regular basis. They're…
I drove a 50 year old car in Texas without AC, and I got by just fine. I was the VP of an energy investment company at the time, and the only issue was the occasional extra hot mornings with lots of traffic. I would just shower before any meetings (we had a shower at the office). I don't currently own a car with it…
Call me a luddite (probably an accurate accusation as I don't own any cars newer than myself and only one newer than my parents), but I have to disagree with just about everything on this list...
Maybe this hits home for me more than most bullshit automotive awards because I'm a Texan, and like most Texans I'm quite proud of this fact. And as someone who is intimately familiar with Texas, I can tell you the Hyundai Genesis has no business being named "Car of Texas."
I guess it's all relative, but I see roads higher than the first four on this list pretty regularly, and I can look out my kitchen window and see Evans in the distance... The loss of power isn't as dramatic as it's made out to be unless you're carbureted. If you know how to properly tune carburetors, it's not an issue…
Agreed on the internet audio. I will say by way of pseudo credentials that I'm also a practicing luthier with a pretty solid ear. There are certain timbre characteristics that are altered in a crappy recording through crappy speakers, but there are others that you can't really alter. A violin cannot be distorted to…
Oh Kinja...
My ears are fairly well tuned to the sound of both flat fours AND flat sixes, and that sounds like just a flat six with a more open muffler than what came stock and/or maybe a different turbo setup than you'd normally find... Pretty sure there.
As a daily driver of a Karmann Ghia who is familiar with the 944 engine/layout/etc., you COULD in the same way you could put a SBC back there, but it won't be an easy application of the ol' automotive shoehorn.
I second MisterHughes' take. I have two of the referenced "boxer-4's from earlier porsches" in my automotive…
Blind spot indicators. Learn to adjust your goddamn mirrors!
Forward control vehicles are unable to meet US safety regulations that have been in effect since (IIRC) 1993. It's a function of crumple zones. When I DD'd a '62 VW bus, I used to joke that my crumple zones (aka knees) were required for me to leave the scene of an accident. Commercial vehicles in the US are not…
I defy anyone to be able to position a car's rear view mirrors — outside or inside — in any way where you could actually get a decent glimpse of what the hell is going on inside the car from, again, inside the car. The mirrors just aren't designed for that.