It beats up supercars and burns like ‘em too

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“GRAB MY CORD.....IT’S ELECTRIFYING!”

Aftermarket solution: A big ugly reel mounted off the trunk like the spare tire on a Wrangler. Sell snarky covers as well. Something like “Everyone wants a longer cord”

I don’t have the attention span for that!

I really like croutons :D I drop in on the Skillet here and there. It’s a great blog.

The proportions seem off.

Comments like this are a waste of space. Less whiny comments, please!

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I don’t think complaining here gets you a free Lifehacker but I admire your moxie!

Helpful if you are low on gas: put the car in reverse, in modern cars, the engine will actually put gas back in your tank by pulling it straight out of the air. Helps sprotect the environment too by pulling pollutants from the atmosphere. Win, win.

What I like to do is calculate the amount of fuel that an idling engine would use, then work out whether the fuel required to make up for the decelerative forces produced by remaining in gear would be more or less than the former value at that moment in time, continuously evaluate the two, and then not give a…

Not to mentioned large variance in speed is really annoying to everyone around you.

Yeah, PR is not part of America, it’s not a US state. A territory is not a state. They do NOT pay taxes.

1. With a car that’s been around as long as this one, I’d expect a pretty robust aftermarket. What kinds of light bars, gun racks, and chrome trucker mudflap girls can I find for this car?

How does a 10 year-old car still look so delicious?

The issue was actually NOx though.

His point about non-linear throttles is accurate, but not really relevant. Almost all new cars use throttle by wire and the ECU can very easily linearize the throttle response or otherwise tailor it to however they want it to respond. Also, even older cable actuated throttles had an eccentric that would at least slow…

I’ve always read the “peak torque at 0 rpm” thing and wondered... is it really applying any force at 0, or should we be saying “peak torque at 0> rpm?”

pretty sure that’s a Saturn