Before watching the video... i was thinking... if someone thinks it's funny to jump in to my car, they are going to be a dead misunderstood car jacker in a hurry... but, for his sake, he is lucky he does a good job of making it seem like a misunderstanding. That seems to make it less threatening. I actually had a…

Facepalm. It's an XR6 turbo, inline six, the only thing that says V8 in the video is V8ETA, as in V8 Eater... my god. Does that sound like a v8 to you?

You are incorrect. Torque at the wheels means nothing without a rotational speed. You put a ford raptor in 4 low and the torque measured at the wheels will increase by 2.64 times and the rotational speed will slow by 2.64 times. Is it 2.64 times faster or more powerful? Horse power is just representation of torque…

I agree that hit and run situations should be much more vigorously prosecuted. My friend was hit head on (on his motorcycle),on an interstate, by a woman driving the wrong way on the divided interstate in excess of 70 mph. He lost a leg, she didn't stop, and was later pulled over. I was right next to him, but was…

At what point do you realize it is irrelevant. Power to wheels is the only aspect that matters in acceleration and the fact that you want to do math to find some arbitrary number like the amount of torque at a some distant RPM that really means nothing because it is different than the wheel RPM, shows why it doesn't…

Thank god one person understands how a dynamometer works.

"Hell, Raphael and I were joking that if a Focus ever had a V8 swap version, Shelby would be the one to do it."

I was into turbos before turbos were cool. Your blanket statement is misleading. There are a lot of things to take into consideration and there are many vehicles that you could "just bolt a turbo on" and make a significant amount of horsepower safely. Take for instance older vehicles, say in the 80s that ran 9:0:1…

That is last year. This year, it appears there was no crowd of people to flip him back over.

Maxima edges are straighter, super-imposed it looks like it could match, but side by side shows there is no way it is a 2009+ maxima. There is no roundness to the hard straight edges on the bottom.

"all investigators knew instantly was that the vehicle involved was a four-door silver sedan, according to witness accounts."

I come here for entertainment, but clicking a story to find the title was misleading is more of a disappointment than entertainment. It would truly be entertaining if a cop put a ticket on a fiberglass mini on a wall. But a city inspector putting up a sticker on a work site that failed to pull a permit is just not…

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And I'm sticking to my point that your post is pointless. It's like saying the actions that led up to Adam Lanza shooting up a school is irrelevant. Of course it is relevant, why wouldn't it be?

I love that video.

I draw my apparently anecdotal evidence from many years of working on, driving, and racing cars. But mostly, I can say what I say because I know how it works. ABS is ineffective at very slow speeds, most ABS systems don't turn on until a certain speed, say 12 mph and some turn off below certain speeds of around the…

It's obvious by that statement that you don't. I'm sorry to hear that you don't know what ABS is, but glad you can still take advantage of it without understanding it.

"It's incredibly easy to lock up an ABS car on snow and ice."

It is not irrelevant at all. The point I was making as that they did not address it. There is no video of it. The only mention was "i was hit from behind and saw the guy making gestures." Why was it not... "I was hit from behind, pulled over, and guy started freaking out." Questioning what led to an event is not…

So, the road rage guy was obviously out of his mind and crazy. But it kinda seems like this started with the "victim" being involved in an accident (probably the road ragers fault) and he didn't pull over. Looks like at the beginning he was trying to get him to stop. Guy might have thought he was trying to flee an…